Summer Mashed Potatoes

Hi! I'm very excited about joining the Coventry Patch Team. My name is Miranda and I live in Narragansett while I go to school at the University of Rhode Island where I'm studying Education and English as a Junior, but Coventry is definitely close to my heart. My hobbies are cooking, photography, and (of course!) blogging. 

I run my own blog at http://livingonebiteatatime.com which focuses around the idea of healthy living on a budget - I try to post about 4 recipes per week. Feel free to check it out!

Sometimes I think that the best recipes are born out of a different recipe's failure. Or, at least, that's what happened with my potato salad recipe last week. I was originally going to make the Red Potato Salad recipe I got from the June/July 2011 issue of Taste of Home magazine... but it quickly turned into my own original recipe of Summer Mashed Potatoes when I boiled the potatoes a few minutes too long!

I like the idea of Summer Mashed Potatoes, because what is better than adapting a feel-good down home winter comfort food recipe to fit with a summer meal?

Summer Mashed Potatoes

Ingredients:

• 2 lbs red potatoes, washed and diced (leave skin on)
• 1/2 onion, diced
• 2 cloves garlic, minced
• Salt, to taste
• 1/4 cup vinaigrette dressing (I used Cain's White Wine Honey Vinaigrette)
• 2 tbsp dijon mustard

Directions:

• Fill a pot with water and bring to a boil. Add potatoes and cook until very tender (about 8 minutes); drain.
• Add onions and garlic to a large bowl and mix with drained potatoes. Add the rest of the ingredients and mash/mix until you reach "mashed potato-consistency"