Aunty Acid by Ged Backland for October 15, 2020

A pint or so per person should do.

More like smashed potatoes.

If it’s true vodka, it is potatoes.

Three swigs per person.

Forget the potatoes.

No, the vodka should go in the pot with the roast.

Red wine added to the chicken and whiskey to my hot-chocolate…

As the sign in my kitchen says, "I cook with wine. Sometimes some of it makes it into the food.’

WHAT? NO! NO!

Vodka in mashed potatoes is a waste, as the cooking process heat, and mashing, willl remove the alcohol and leave runny mashed potatoes.

Two ways to do this:

Cook the mashed potatoes normally. Clarify two sticks (1/2 lb of butter) and set in a larger server. Add 8 oz of Vodka to the clarified butter and stir. The Butter will remain clarified, the fat and oil will keep the alcohol intact. Pour the butter on the potatoes with Gravy as desired.

The other way is to pour one shot of vodka directly into the chef for every guest they are serving. The chef can regulate the speed and pace of the input to insure even doneness.

Note: this is intended as parody and satire only. Please do not try this at home. No Chefs were harmed in the production of this comment.

Depends, Aunty. How many victims are you feeding?

I’ll take mine deconstructed. Just sit the bottle next to the bowl of potatoes.

To taste, silly girl!

Open the bottle, skip the taters : )

The grossest thing I ever ate was at a thanksgiving meal – my friend’s mother added amaretto to the mashed sweet potatoes – new recipe, never tried; after tasting his, her son bailed me out – leaned over and said “you don’t have to eat this sh*t.” The highlight was when she finally took a bite and knew instantly why none of us were eating her dish.

Enough to get smashed, I would assume… ☺

Before or after eating the potatoes?

If you add more than a half cup, they’re too runny.

The whole bottle!

xxx

Enough to dissolve the lumps.

You don´t add vodka to the mashed potatoes. You add it to the cook.

A food scientist told me it’s the secret to a good piecrust!

Hmmm… That is definitely worth looking into…

I hate mashed potatoes and I don’t drink. That leaves me with nothing. Sigh!

Just enough to give it a Tang, but not so much they become “Runny”.

Just a little bit more. :)

Don’t know, but it reminds me of a favorite cartoon from a very old collection that belonged to my Dad. Two bakers standing over a tub of bread dough, one them liberally pouring the contents of a bottle into the dough and saying to the other, “It’s what makes people so crazy about our rye bread.”