Well, Today I ate 3 real meals... (as requested by my mindful eating challenge)...
Ben made us breakfast (eggs & toast) -- the only reason we had time for this is because we both skipped out 8am classes and went to school late. =]
We both packed a lunch of leftover chicken tortilla soup with sourcream & tortilla chips/strips.
And then for dinner (although we didn't eat until 830pm-ish) we had a delicious meatloaf, broccoli, AND mashed potatoes... (I made garlic/ranch potatoes and they were delish!) It felt great to eat a good dinner WITH a Vegetable! :) i always seem to forget those... :/ It also felt great to not be starving all day... I also felt really good when i produced a good meal. not just a flavorful piece of chicken and no sides.. Ben prepared the meatloaf (b/c i don't like touching raw meat very much) but I got the potatoes/veggies ready and folded all the clean laundry while ben did the dishes. It was a very productive day.
For those of you who want a SUPER EASY and SUPER DELICOUS way to make garlic mashed potatoes, here it is (for 2 hungry people & some left-overs):
4 Large Sam's Club Size Potatoes (they're big)
Milk
Butter/Margarine
Garlic Salt
1/2 a Ranch Seasoning Packet
Here's how it goes:
First, peel and cut potatoes into small pieces. Like this:
(i love that a picture of potatoes is copyright protected)
Fill a large pot up with hot water and some salt (that speeds the boiling process)
Once boiling... Add the potatoes
Boil them until they are soft (15-ish minutes... depends on the potatoes/how small you cut them) keeping the lid on also helps the potatoes boil quickly...
Once potatoes are soft (can be poked with a fork with ease), drain water.
Then smash potatoes a little bit with a smashing device (we used a fork) until they are broken up enough to use a mixing device.
Add milk to desired consistency (we just poured what was left of the gallon we were almost done with--maybe enough for a bowl of cereal?) and added about 1/2 cube or a whole cube of butter... once those were in there, we got this baby out:
I would have never thought of this and would have been mixing with a fork the whole time but awesome husband ben recommended we use our beaters. so, you plug-er-in and mix the potatoes/milk/butter until they're mashed.... they'll still be a little lumpy, but i like them that way..
After they look like normal potatoes, add garlic salt to taste
Then once the garlic is delicious, you can stop there, or continue to the ranch. We used about 1/2 a packet we had left from some croc-pot ranch potatoes and it was the perfect amount. so just round up one of these bad boys:
(i'm sure you could use ranch dressing too and add less milk/butter) then sprinkle some in there (1/2 oz. is probably good for the amount we made) and blend that up some more and tah-dah! there you are... garlic/ranch mashed potatoes...
I don't know why i'm so proud of this... i just really enjoyed them... I must have been really hungry. :) more pics to come soon.
Adios.
Ben made us breakfast (eggs & toast) -- the only reason we had time for this is because we both skipped out 8am classes and went to school late. =]
We both packed a lunch of leftover chicken tortilla soup with sourcream & tortilla chips/strips.
And then for dinner (although we didn't eat until 830pm-ish) we had a delicious meatloaf, broccoli, AND mashed potatoes... (I made garlic/ranch potatoes and they were delish!) It felt great to eat a good dinner WITH a Vegetable! :) i always seem to forget those... :/ It also felt great to not be starving all day... I also felt really good when i produced a good meal. not just a flavorful piece of chicken and no sides.. Ben prepared the meatloaf (b/c i don't like touching raw meat very much) but I got the potatoes/veggies ready and folded all the clean laundry while ben did the dishes. It was a very productive day.
For those of you who want a SUPER EASY and SUPER DELICOUS way to make garlic mashed potatoes, here it is (for 2 hungry people & some left-overs):
4 Large Sam's Club Size Potatoes (they're big)
Milk
Butter/Margarine
Garlic Salt
1/2 a Ranch Seasoning Packet
Here's how it goes:
First, peel and cut potatoes into small pieces. Like this:
(i love that a picture of potatoes is copyright protected)
Fill a large pot up with hot water and some salt (that speeds the boiling process)
Once boiling... Add the potatoes
Boil them until they are soft (15-ish minutes... depends on the potatoes/how small you cut them) keeping the lid on also helps the potatoes boil quickly...
Once potatoes are soft (can be poked with a fork with ease), drain water.
Then smash potatoes a little bit with a smashing device (we used a fork) until they are broken up enough to use a mixing device.
Add milk to desired consistency (we just poured what was left of the gallon we were almost done with--maybe enough for a bowl of cereal?) and added about 1/2 cube or a whole cube of butter... once those were in there, we got this baby out:
I would have never thought of this and would have been mixing with a fork the whole time but awesome husband ben recommended we use our beaters. so, you plug-er-in and mix the potatoes/milk/butter until they're mashed.... they'll still be a little lumpy, but i like them that way..
After they look like normal potatoes, add garlic salt to taste
Then once the garlic is delicious, you can stop there, or continue to the ranch. We used about 1/2 a packet we had left from some croc-pot ranch potatoes and it was the perfect amount. so just round up one of these bad boys:
(i'm sure you could use ranch dressing too and add less milk/butter) then sprinkle some in there (1/2 oz. is probably good for the amount we made) and blend that up some more and tah-dah! there you are... garlic/ranch mashed potatoes...
I don't know why i'm so proud of this... i just really enjoyed them... I must have been really hungry. :) more pics to come soon.
Adios.
1 comment:
hey thanks im going to try those I have never made them and they sound delish!
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