Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, homemade mashed potatoes. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Homemade mashed potatoes is one of the most favored of current trending foods on earth. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. They are fine and they look wonderful. Homemade mashed potatoes is something which I’ve loved my whole life.

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To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook homemade mashed potatoes using 6 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Homemade mashed potatoes:

1. Get russet potatoes
2. Prepare garlic salt or powder
3. Prepare sliced baby carrots
4. Get milk
5. Take butter
6. Take salt

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Steps to make Homemade mashed potatoes:

1. Boil water in a big enough pot/pan. Add 3 or so pinches of salt to water BEFORE boiling.
2. Peel and cut potatoes in quarters.
3. While the potatoes are in the water, slice the baby carrots into small pieces
4. Grab a small sauce pan, put carrots in the pan…set to low heat.
5. Take a little butter and toss it over carrots, stir it around until carrots get nicely glazed.
6. This is optional, but you can add a pinch of salt and garlic powder to the carrots. Let them heat up until they're a little soft.
7. Keep an eye on carrots so they don't burn, if they start to just turn the burner off and set aside.
8. Once water is boiling, toss potatoes in… and let them sit for a while until they soften, NOT mushy. BUT you do want them a little firm still! (Little hint, if you put a wooden spoon/fork over pot it will not boil over!) :-) :-)
9. !!!!! You want the potatoes where you can stick a fork in with very little effort!!!!!
10. Drain the potatoes, add the milk and butter to the pot.
11. Use a masher or whatever you prefer to mash potatoes with. Add the seasonings to your preferred taste. Add carrots.
12. Mash potatoes up until everything is mixed in well…and enjoy! :-)

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