Microwave Mug Mashed Potatoes
@Spontaneo (14699)
United States
May 6, 2019 5:34pm CST
Need some comfort food? Love mashed potatoes? Did you realize that you can make mashed potatoes in the microwave with a coffee mug?
Personally, I just found a recipe today calling for the insides of mashed potatoes to make "Potato Energy Bites" which is comfort yet healthy. The yummy Potato Energy Bites recipe calls for the inside of a potato, a "little" peanut butter, vanilla, syrup, oats, cinnamon, dried cherries optional. Any dried fruit really. Potatoes are energy and yummy. myLot is not allowing me to post both recipes here. I want to have a healthy snack other than peanut butter! Yuck! So tired of peanut butter! Actually the stuff makes me tired. People preach to me about the benefits of peanut butter and protein. I can take my carbs any day. I am sure the "little" peanut butter that the Potato Bites Recipe calls for is to hold it together.
https://youtu.be/Ls_xq5W4g6A
So, I am incorporating the Potato Energy Bites recipe into the Microwave Mug
Mashed Potatoes recipe. The love of YouTube!
Yes, potatoes are comfort food. But, they are also healthy. I guess it is which food pyramid you believe in. I have always been a Mediterranean diet, where potatoes are permitted frequently.
Following, I now know what to do for my roommate. She loves to mix corn with mashed potatoes at dinner. Now, she can have her corn and potato fix anytime.
So, what do you think?
https://youtu.be/Ls_xq5W4g6A
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Sara from Average Betty makes Mashed Potatoes in the microwave using a mug and plastic wrap. She also shares two ways to eat them up... The "comfort coma" wi...
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
6 May 19
I wouldn't try anything like that. I don't like instant potatoes, too much added starch to a food that's already starchy.
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@Spontaneo (14699)
• United States
6 May 19
The recipes do not call for instant.
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@Spontaneo (14699)
• United States
7 May 19
@ScribbledAdNauseum I learned on YouTube, how to make mashed potatoes in a mug and potato energy bites. The bites require the insides of potatoes. So, I have found it more convenient to nuke the potatoes as the mashed potatoes in a mug recipe for the potatoes required for potato energy bites. Make sense?
@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
7 May 19
@Spontaneo Yes, that does make sense. I had to read it twice because I read "nuke" as "make" the first time, but yep, makes sense to me.
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@Spontaneo (14699)
• United States
8 May 19
How to you fix potatoes? Any neat recipes? I make (although I am not of German descent) a recipe called German Potato Salad with Kielbasa. A good comfort food.
