Boil 'em and Mash 'em OR How I Spent My Thanksgiving Part I

Hey non-cookers!

Thanksgiving is primarily one of the only holidays that centers specifically around food. And thanks. And giving. From some articles that I’ve skimmed through, I’m pretty sure the pilgrims originally wanted to name the holiday Foodsgiving but Squanto and his peep's couldn’t really pronounce their F’s correctly so they just decided to call it Thanksgiving instead.

 

Cause I mean let's face it. Who really got f'd in the end? 

There are always Thanksgiving traditions that I do with my family. We’d always get up before dawn to run in a 5k marathon where I then don’t eat until the big meal. Older sister Hannah would primarily help my mom in the kitchen with the food while younger sister Laura and I would throw markers or other things at each other. This year however, I was away from my family but got to spend it with some swell group of folks. This was also the first year I contributed to the feast for I made

MASHED POTATOES!

What you’ll need.

Potatoes. Unmashed.

Salt

Pepper

Milk

Butter

These potatoes are your children and you should treat them as such.

Step 1: Give the potatoes a bath by washing them thoroughly. Make sure to scrub behind the ears.

Step 2: Peel the potatoes. Make sure all the skins are off. Once off, dice them up even more.

Step 3: Put the potatoes in a pot of boiling water until they are soft and tender. This could also be known as a timeout.

Step 4: Once tender, drain the water from the pot and put in a tiny glob of butter and a quick dip of milk into the pot. Add in salt and pepper of any amount in. I gave up on measurements like 7 posts ago, sorry guys.

Step Favorite: Using a hand mixer, mix the potatoes together until they play nicely and get along.

I was overly-excited about the eject button. I secretly hoped it'd be some
James Bond-esque scenario where it flies off into the air.

PLAY NICE!

With that you’re done!

Look what I did! I contributed to the Thanksgiving meal for the first time! Yaaaay!

The potatoes tasted fairly well. It could have used a bit more salt/pepper/spices from what I was told, but for the most part it wasn’t bad!

Even though I wish I could have spent Thanksgiving with my family this year, I still made the best of it and had a great time with the group of people I was with.

 

This was Gary. He was delicious.  

With all the food that I had ate I was beginning to suspect a relaxing and uneventful weekend alone at my place. I was DEAD wrong. Stay tuned for Part II of the trilogy of two posts!

OMG ONLY LIKE A WEEK LEFT
GUYZ!