One Simple Trick for the Creamiest Mashed Potatoes Ever
Want to make the creamiest mashed potatoes ever without all the extra calories? This trick is easy and fast!
We love mashed potatoes at our house. We pretty much eat them all year round, though once the weather cools off our mashed potato consumption rises directly in relation with the coolness of the weather.
Not only has the weather been pretty darn cool lately (it even snowed!), we’ve been getting a ton of locally grown potatoes in our CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) farm share lately. So potatoes are on the menu often.
Anyone who has ever tried my mashed potatoes always comments on how wonderfully creamy they are. So I’m here to share my secret to the creamiest (and best!) mashed potatoes ever.
How to make the creamiest mashed potatoes ever!
Ready?
Evaporated milk and a hand masher.
That’s it.
Before my mother-in-law taught me otherwise, I always used regular milk and a hand mixer to make mashed potatoes. They were okay like that, but the difference when using evaporated milk is pretty amazing. The hand mashing makes a big difference, too.
The other trick is to make sure you get all of the water out of the potates.
\Once you strain them, put them back into the pot while still on the hot stove—just for a few seconds. This allows the last bit of water to “burn” off, which makes the end result creamier.
Remove the potatoes from the heat quickly, add some evaporated milk and begin to mash by hand.
For 8-10 medium sized potatoes, use a whole can of evaporated milk. Add a little at a time as you mash, until the potatoes are the consistency you like best.
And that’s it! Best mashed potatoes ever.
What to eat with your creamy mashed potatoes
The one issue with making mashed potatoes so often is that it is a bit time consuming. Peeling, chopping, boiling, straining, and then mashing them by hand takes quite a bit of time. And I am a busy woman!
Even though my husband does a lot of the cooking around here, on orchestra rehearsal nights he is unavailable, so I have to do the cooking. Unfortunately for me, orchestra rehearsals are also on days that I work all day, so it’s hard to get dinner on the table at all, much less a healthy one!
On the days I work, I am a big fan of the crock pot, and now I am a big fan of Smithfield pork loins that are already marinated in several different flavors. I don’t have to do a darn thing besides open the package and throw it in the crockpot!
I threw this pork loin in the crockpot without adding anything extra (the liquid was the small amount of juices that were present in the packaging). I turned the crock pot to low just before I headed out to work at 9:00 am.
When it was time to eat dinner, the pork loin was perfectly cooked, tender, and juicy. The meat just fell apart and basically melted in our mouths. My children couldn’t stop talking about how wonderful it was!
Because the main dish was so freaking easy, I had plenty of time to whip up some mashed potatoes to go with it. (Except, I didn’t actually whip them—I hand mashed!)
We ate them with some raw locally grown carrots from our CSA and had a wonderful meal that was delicious, healthy, and painless to prepare. My kind of meal.
I will be purchasing these pork loins again and again, I can tell you that. We tried the garlic and herb last time, and while it was a huge hit, I’m looking forward to trying the rest of the flavors. All of them are gluten-free, which in my house is mandatory.
I purchased mine at Walmart right in the meat section with all of the pork.
For other great ideas on how to cook up your Smithfield pork loin, visit Smithfield’s website for recipe and meal ideas.
And maybe make some oh-so-creamy mashed potatoes to go with it.
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Lara, I'm inviting myself over for dinner. This meal looks amazing!
Come on over!
I'm the mashed potato Queen! Meaning they're my favorite food and I could eat my body weight in them. hahaha I've never heard of using evaporated milk, I'll have to give it a try before Thanksgiving! 🙂
I LOVE mashed potatoes. Seriously. LOvvvvve. I never really made them from scratch until I got together with my husband. Then boxed mashed taters were sacrilege! These look amazing.
We love Smithfield's pork loins. Seriously nothing is easier than one of them in the crock pot and the flavors are so delicious. Thanks for the coupon.
Evaporated milk! Oh I bet they are wonderful!! we always used cream and lots of butter, but I want to try this- it might actually be "lighter!" I love the "flavored" pork loins too. When I make pork that isn't packed and ready to go like that, it always tastes "porky" to me.
I am definitely going to try that for the potatoes! I have to look for the roast too. Some days are so crazy that I barely have time to put anything in the crock pot. This is perfect for scout days!
I use canned milk also, they really are better than fresh milk.
Good luck with the tenure stuff! EEk!
Thanks! It's a huge relief to have the dossier in, but boy was putting it together a lot of work!
I learned this when I was first married from my mother-in-law and I will never go back to regular milk! 🙂
We had this roast again tonight since Tuesdays are so insane at our house. I think it truly is the easiest meal ever. And I didn't bother with potatoes tonight–just rice and microwaved veggies! I love having a healthy dinner without working for it!
I like the potatoes with cream, too, but something about the canned milk consistency is different–and better!
You're welcome! I need to try more of the flavors, but we've loved the ones we've tried so far!
If you try it with evaporated milk, pretty soon you'll think that potatoes made with regular milk are a sacrilege. I could eat them all day, too. MMMM.
Me too! I shouldn't make them as much as I do, because I don't know if they are friendly for the scale. But they're just so good!
Let me know if you try them with evaporated milk. I'd love to know what you think.
I've never tried this.. but you have me convinced!
I quit cooking the pork tenderloins because they were either overcooked (dry) or undercooked and I had to zap them in the microwave (also dry). Your crockpot idea sounds perfect.
I have got to try your potatoes as well.
Sounds easy and yummy!
I promise they're amazing. 🙂
The crockpot does a good job of keeping it perfectly cooked, but still moist, that's for sure. And let me know if you try the potatoes! I'll never go back to regular milk.
It definitely is!