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Rosemary Goat Cheese Mashed Potatoes

April 17, 2012 by 18 Comments

So, I’d like to go on record as saying that mashed potatoes are pretty dang good on their own, and I usually don’t condone any messing with a good old classic mashed potato recipe.  On occasion my mother has snuck some mashed parsnips into her mashed potatoes.  Or maybe it was mashed turnips.  Whatever it was, I know her intentions were good, but we figured it out and staged a mutiny. There was to be NO messing with mashed potatoes!  So for me to break my sacred mashed potato rule, you know it had to be for something amazingly, extra-specially good.

Which brings me to the subject of rosemary.  Rosemary is one of those amazingly, extra-specially good things.  In the summer, I always have big whiskey barrel full of it outside my kitchen door.

I miss it SO much in the winter, so much so that this past year my heroic Southern husband tried to keep some growing in a pot during the chilly winter months. It started out okay, but rosemary just plain doesn’t like to be inside.  It got slowly more and more spindly, until it looked like the rosemary plant version of Charlie Brown’s Christmas tree.  He never gave up though…he watered it and talked to it and defended it staunchly whenever I mentioned that it was looking a little, well, spindly.  (This is the 1,375,823rd reason why I love this guy so much. If he thinks I want rosemary plants all year long, he throws himself into it 100%. Extra smooches for him.)

Back to the mashed potatoes.  I usually make mine with butter and cream cheese, but I recently came into a large amount of scrumptious goat cheese and thought I would walk on the wild side and substitute goat cheese for the cream cheese.  And since I was throwing caution to the wind, I decided I would add in some fresh rosemary as well.  (From the supermarket.  Not the plant.  Don’t ask.)  The result was a wonderful mashed potato concoction laced with bits of rosemary and with just a hint of that gorgeous, tangy goat cheese flavor.

But Mom?  This is not a repeal of the ban on turnips/parsnips/eggplant in YOUR mashed potatoes.  I love yours (and you!) just the way they are!

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Rosemary Goat Cheese Mashed Potatoes

Yield: 4-6 servings

Rosemary Goat Cheese Mashed Potatoes

Ingredients

2 1/2 pounds Yukon Gold potatoes
4 tablespoons butter at room temperature
4 ounces soft goat cheese, crumbled and at room temperature
1/3 cup heavy cream
2 tablespoons chopped fresh rosemary leaves
Coarse salt and fresh ground pepper to taste

Directions

1. Peel potatoes and cut into chunks. Place in a large pot of water and bring to a boil. Boil until potatoes are soft when you insert a knife into one of the chunks, about 1015 minutes.
2. Drain and return to the pot. Put the heat on very low and mash with a potato masher until they are fully mashed.
3. Add butter and stir until melted. Add in goat cheese and stir until cheese is melted. Now pour in cream in small increments until the potatoes are the consistency you like.
4. Stir in chopped rosemary, and season to taste with salt and pepper. Serve at once.

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  1. Blog is the New Black says:
    April 17, 2012 at 8:22 pm

    YUM!

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  2. Joanne says:
    April 17, 2012 at 8:50 pm

    See I think I’m the opposite. i’m all for messing with my mashed potatoes! Especially when it involves goat cheese…swoon.

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  3. Donna McBroom-Theriot says:
    April 17, 2012 at 9:06 pm

    This looks wonderful! I am awarding your blog the Versatile Blogging Award which can be picked up on my blog. Hope to see you there. Donna

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  4. Erin says:
    April 18, 2012 at 7:53 am

    These look amazing! I’ll be making these soon for sure.

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  5. Miss McBooty says:
    April 18, 2012 at 9:13 am

    You’re making me go crazy over here! You’ve just combine two of my favorite food loves: potatoes and goat cheese. I’m in food heaven!

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  6. Kathy Martin says:
    April 18, 2012 at 11:07 am

    Never met a potato I didn’t like! Thanks for what sounds like a very good recipe! :)

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  7. ruthie says:
    April 18, 2012 at 1:34 pm

    So, here I am, getting hungry but procrastinating about going downstairs to cook, and I open your blog, and you hit me with a big ol’ bowl of creamy mashed potatoes! I’m sure the neighbors can hear the roaring of my stomach through the open window. ;) Darn but that looks good. And I do believe I have one leftover potato. Can you guess what’s for breakfast?

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    • Kate says:
      April 21, 2012 at 9:34 am

      I seriously love mashed potatoes for breakfast. Put a poached egg on top of them and you are smack in the middle of breakfast heaven.

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  8. Amanda says:
    April 19, 2012 at 12:56 pm

    Looks tasty, thanks for sharing :)

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  9. Sarah says:
    April 25, 2012 at 6:31 pm

    Can’t wait to try this! I have a big rosemary bush in my garden and I’ve been looking for ways to incorporate it into my cooking. This sounds and looks delicious!

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