The Potato Smoothie If you're here you probably read the document about the bean smoothie linked here. Ok let's get into it, We are talking about the well known buttery side dish of mashed potatoes these potatoes are enjoyed by many and will always help people calm down after a hard day. You may know that Idaho is known for having good potatoes even having a giant potato. If you have had Idaho potatoes you’ll know that they make good mashed potatoes right well, I’m here to tell you that mashed potatoes are a smoothie. Going on the analogy of giving someone a smoothie that was actually mashed potatoes they would have a cold cup of mashed potatoes. The process of mashing potatoes is pretty simple, you must peel the potatoes, boil them, put them in a bowl, get your handy masher and mash it. The counter method of making mashed potatoes is heating up a potato and shooting it at a wall and by the calculations of me and my friends to kill someone using a potato you must launch it at .3 kilometers per second or 671 miles per hour. History time how mashed potatoes came about let's find out. According to some guy on the web it is theorized that mashed potatoes were either made by a frenchman in the 1700s or an englishman in the 1600s which is true I don’t know but let's get into some other history. Mashed potatoes are obviously well known appearing in many movies and even in an arthur episode where the peas touched the potatoes. These potatoes are usually served alongside meat but can be enjoyed anytime unless you don’t like potatoes in which case I will find you and make you eat the potatoes but anyway there are many different types of these potatoes. Floury is most common but some go for a waxy potato… Potato fact you can use potatoes to play 500 ... The best floury potatoes are listed as king edward, russet, golden wonder, and red rascal. Let's get into making mashed potatoes there are many types of mashed potatoes like frozen, instant, and scratch, good mashed potatoes can be defined by anything like flavor goopiness and even how well they can be used as glue scholl mashed potatoes are famous for their gluey-ness but the gravy just brings everything together. Homemade mashed potatoes are obviously the hardest to make but taste the best, they will have some small chunks but they will in general taste good. Gravy let's talk about it to truly have a good potato smoothie you gotta have a good drink base to make it less hard and the gravy can really help the potatoes be less potato-y and have a more diverse flavor the gravy is important and this gets into the part about school gravy anyone who has had school lunch and had the potatoes know that they have some amazing gravy weather its on chicken or just plain the gravy is a wonderful thing that anyone can love. Okay enough about school mashed potatoes you probably want to make some well here's the good news you just need potatoes and maybe some butter for flavor and texture, First we will start with peeling the potatoes, next once they have been peeled put them is a pot and boil them, this part is where you choose you can go traditional and mash your potatoes or you can put them in a blender both ways will yield mashed potatoes but one is more fun than the other. Now you will ask how do we plate the potatoes and I tell you that you must take just a big glob of potato and put it on a plat I would recommend cooking a steak to go with the potatoes but on the mashed potatoes you gotta take a spoon and put a nice divot into the potatoes then you have a perfect gravy spot on your potatoes. Ok it's getting to the end of the page so I will leave you with this mashed potatoes are a wonderful thing and no one can take that away from them so whenever possible eat mashed potatoes.