Make-ahead goat cheese mashed potatoes from Make It Ahead: A Barefoot Contessa Cookbook (page 157) by Ina Garten

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Accompaniments: Warm fig and arugula salad; Herbed pork tenderloins with apple chutney

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  • Nrnarayan on August 01, 2025

    Holy moly this is amazing. I forgot to get herbed cheese so I just added more herbs

  • Ro_ on May 18, 2025

    I used a non-flavoured fresh goat cheese (Little Billy) and added extra garlic and herbs. The flavours of this were really nice, but the texture was wrong. I didn't even add the milk as it seemed like way too much liquid already after adding the cream, and the potatoes were kind of gluey and weird. If I made again I'd add way less sour cream, just a dash of milk, and more butter to get the kind of mashed potatoes I like.

  • mharriman on December 26, 2019

    Made this one day ahead as a side for beef tenderloin (same cookbook) for Christmas dinner. My main motivation was to have a side I could pop in the oven and reheat while we had our appetizer and first course. That worked well. We thought this mashed potato recipe was good rather than great. Husband and I don’t like creamy mashed potatoes, so I only used a 1/4 cup of the half n half, and used a hand potato masher rather than a food mill. With the goat cheese and sour cream, it was still more creamy than we prefer, but a good buffet table choice for the beef.

  • anya_sf on May 27, 2019

    Lowfat milk worked fine. I mashed the potatoes and garlic by hand; a food mill wasn't necessary (I don't mind a few lumps). I only added 2 tsp salt when mixing the ingredients, and thought it was just right. I didn't make this ahead. It baked at 350 because I had something else in the oven, and that worked fine. These potatoes were so decadent and delicious!

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