Slow Cooker Mashed Potatoes are an easy side dish (with no boiling required!) that you can make for the holidays and keep warm on the buffet without drying out!
Some surprise volunteer potatoes came up in one of the sack planters out there, from where I stuck in a few sprouty potatoes I think 2 years ago? Because why not.
They didn’t do anything then, and I thought that was the end of it. But, up sprouted some this year. I was kind of glad to see them, especially since I haven’t been able to do basically any gardening.
And the plants were doing pretty well. Until, AFAICT, those rats that have been hanging around outside decided to go digging for some spuddy snacks! 🐀🐀🐀🙃
Best I can figure, at least. Not much of a loss, but it still aggravated me finding that.
(Getting our trash inaccessible obviously hasn’t made them move along yet. Pretty sure they’re just going upstairs and raiding the neighbors’ now, since I can hear them up on the deck there at night. No clue where they’re sheltering, either, but hey. Those neighbors already don’t much like us, and I don’t want to say anything about it and probably get them blaming Those Foreign Weirdos for the incursions.)
I wouldn’t have necessarily thought of making a cross between a cheesy potato cake and a corn fritter, but I tried it to use up some leftover mashed potatoes and a small can of corn. It turned out great.
With dill dip on the side (from a mix this time), to go with some quick lemon pepper salmon and broccoli.
Didn’t really follow a recipe, but the proportions there don’t look bad. If I were just going to eat them on their own without any kind of sauce, I would probably add more seasoning to the batter, though. Was tempted to try them with salsa, but that didn’t go as well with the rest of the meal.
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