Blue Diamond Garlic Mashed Taters Surprise!

Blue Diamond Garlic Mashed Taters Surprise

These are so good that Darren, mister, “I HATE CAULIFLOWER!”, you will get your most anti-veggie person to eat veggies!  I made Darren a bet that if I could make him eat and like cauliflower he had to buy me a blue diamond.  Well, I am still waiting for the diamond but got him to eat them and I think he ate like 3 cups of them b/c so far I have made at least 10lbs of taters for Thanksgiving but I only have about 8lbs to serve....

Anyway...  here you go and they are FABULOUS!

• 5lbs of Yukon Gold potatoes – skin left on and cut in quarters
• 1 bag of frozen cauliflower (SURPRISE!)
• 1 large box fat free chicken broth
• 5C water
• 5 chicken bouillon cubes
• 1 stick of butter softened cut into 6 pieces
• ¼ - ½ C skim milk
• either 1 oven roasted garlic (if you have time to make it) OR 2T minced garlic from the jar
• salt & pepper to taste

In a large pot, put in the cauliflower on the bottom (this gets it out of sight of your household anti-veggie person). Then put the potatoes on top.  pour in the chicken broth and then water to where you have just about ½ in of water above the potatoes.  Plop in the bouillon cube and put it on the stove.  bring them to a boil and then lower the heat to about an 8 so it doesn't boil over – and cook those suckers for 40mins or to where you can stick a fork into a potato chunk and it falls apart.

Drain the potatoes and cauliflower and toss back into your pot.  Throw in the butter & garlic and then take a masher and start mashing.  Once everything is mashed slowly add in the milk – keep mashing.  You want just enough milk so they are slightly creamy and not soupy.  Then add salt & pepper to taste.  

Serve!  You can freeze these – which is what I do.  I make them about a week before Thanksgiving and then thaw them out, put them in a pretty serving dish, put them in the oven 350 for 30mins then put a few pats of butter on top and stick it under the broiler for like 2mins for crispy peaks.  SO easy!

You will get your favorite taters with a lower glycemic impact and a veggie stuck in there you won't know is there.   I PROMISE!  SUPER YUMMY FABU!