Purée De Pommes De Terre

Name: Purée De Pommes De Terre
Yield: Serves 4
Ingredients: 2 pounds (900 g) fingerling potatoes, unpeeled; Salt and pepper; 1/2 cup (125 ml) milk; 1/2 cup (110 g) cold unsalted butter, diced, plus more if needed

January 24, 2012

David has an Irish friend called Jerry O’Regan who always triple checks whether or not his main course is served with mashed potatoes. In fact, Jerry doesn’t understand why all food isn’t served with potatoes. Sometimes we send him a side of lentils instead of potatoes and he looks at it as if it were alien food. We don’t want to make an “Irish guy potato” stereotype here, but after cooking for Jerry for ten years, we get it. At the end of the meal, Jerry doesn’t say thank you, he says “Feels good to have some potatoes, hey Davey?”.

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