Roasted Garlic Mashed Yucatan Gold Potato

 15 pounds made for Thanksgiving meals this year.

Four large bulbs of garlic with heads topped off and olive oil drizzedle.

Wrapped in foil they baked for an hour at 300*.

 

 Tools of the task.

Gloves are a must here.

The nut pick really works well for the cloves that were not cut.

For the the job pull back the layers of the bulb exposing all the cloves.

Any clove uncut set aside, then just turn the bulb over a bowel and squeeze out the cloves.

They will be mushy and soft squeeze all out and your left with this shell.

 

Those cloves set aside are simply squeezed if open on one end.

Note the baked clove at the tip is a nice little tube if your to use this on toast.

Garlic mellows and is rich and sweet at this stage.

 

 Mash with a gloved hand by just using your fingers.

Then store in a GLASS jar until ready to use.

15 pounds of Yucatan gold potato

Pealed

A glass of chocolate/soy milk/coffee a treat for the labor.

:)

These are naturally buttery and mellow they mash with ease.

 

 Dice in uniform small 1 inch cubes to evenly and timely boil.

The small size will cook fast.

Here a citric acid water (R/O or filtered, if tap let the tap water rest an hour before using to air out the chlorine that is in it or it will spoil the spuds flavor)  bath  is used to retain color.

 

 My Glass top is not suited to use the big caner pot on it.

So out on the camp stove they cooked.

 

 Here they are ready to drain after cooling slightly they were mashed easily REALLY these things just melt when mashed, very naturally buttery I used 2 sticks of butter for a 15 pound bag of spuds.

Salt and then add the garlic.

They were placed in three chafing dishes to be heated in a 300* oven for an hour before taken to the events.

They were still warm.

 

Nothing wasted

The peals were boiled in the citric water bath

then they were removed and the water bath used to boil rice for the dogs.

 

 

 They were thankful too.

:)

 

 The compost had the garlic shells and the foil recycled.

It was a real treat for all.

We saved a portion for the family and I made sausage mushroom gravy for lunch today

Hope you all enjoyed your weekend.