Imagine you have a big pot of potatoes on the stove, billowing hot steam. You drain them and place them in a large bowl. With a little elbow grease and a few added ingredients, you can start mashing ...

Ashley Moore teaches Bridget Lancaster how to make the leftover favorite, Mashed Potato Cakes, from scratch on Cook’s Country, Season 10, Episode Six (“Ribs and Mashed Potatoes Revisited.”) Using two ...

No peeler needed here! Keeping the skin on adds flecks of color and a hearty texture to these mashed red potatoes. Marcia Kiesel, a former Food & Wine test kitchen supervisor, is an experienced chef ...

From New York Times Cooking: The simple act of browning butter takes this holiday mainstay from simple to superb in a matter of minutes. Russet potatoes are the perfect blank canvas for the toasty, ...

Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. Cut off top third of garlic head. Place garlic head and top in sheet of foil; drizzle cut sides with oil. Reassemble head; wrap in foil, crimping and sealing tightly.

I used to search through magazines and cookbooks every year for new recipes to try for Thanksgiving. Finally, my family staged a small revolt and asked me not to do this anymore; they looked forward ...

For years, food magazines have preached the many wonders of Yukon Gold potatoes. They told us Golds were the superior spud—the only potato worth mashing. They made us feel like a fool for even ...

I often love Ina Garten's easy, flavorful recipes, so I gave her buttermilk mashed potatoes a try. The buttermilk made this dish more flavorful than other mashed-potato recipes I've followed. From now ...

There is nothing more stressful than wrestling a large pot of boiling potatoes off the stove at the last minute to drain them in the sink, all so you can serve hot mashed potatoes with Thanksgiving ...