You can’t always have beautiful food pictures 24:7. Or maybe you can, if you have a room set up just for food with white lights, reflectors, and diffusers. But I don’t. I just have me, my little apartment, and a camera. Usually, I don’t even have time to take pictures of regular food because my DB’s impatiently waiting for dinner half the time.
This was one of those times. Once the mashed potatoes were done, it was time to eat dinner. If you wait too long trying to get the perfect picture, the food will be cold and dinner won’t be as good. Who wants a cold dinner? You have to know when to pick your battles. In this instance, the stomach outweighs the blog. Sorry, guys.
Fair warning: I’m going to have a couple more mediocre pictures on my blog. For example, all the baking that I’ve been doing at my parent’s house will have ehhhh pictures because I didn’t bring my DSLR down with me from Northern California. I’ve been using my point and shoot. You’ve been warned.
Mashed potatoes is such an easy dish to make. I don’t know why more people make it from scratch. It’s much better than the instant potato flakes that you mix with water. The mixture of sour cream and margarine makes this side dish extra creamy and fluffy. Plus, bacon makes everything better! You can omit the green onions if you want, but I personally think they add more to the dish in color, texture, and taste. Bon appetit!
Ingredients
- 6 large red potatoes
- 1/2 cup margarine
- 1/2 cup sour cream
- 5-6 slices thick cut bacon, cooked until crispy and chopped
- 2 stalks of green onion, chopped
- salt and pepper to taste
Directions
- Rinse the potatoes and cut them into eighths.
- Put the potatoes in a large pot of water and cook until soft, about 15-20 minutes.
- Once the potatoes are easily pierced by a fork, drain and put the potatoes into a large mixing bowl.
- Mix until desire consistency. Add in the margarine, sour cream, bacon, green onion, and salt and pepper. Mix well.
This sounds very tasty. I cant wait tontry it!
If you replace the margarine with real mayonnaise and add a couple of chopped hard boiled eggs, you’ll have a wonderful, scrumptious potato salad! Great with some fried chicken!