{"id":92,"date":"2025-07-31T20:47:27","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T20:47:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenewsbreeze.com\/?p=92"},"modified":"2025-07-31T20:47:28","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T20:47:28","slug":"grandmas-secret-to-perfect-mashed-potatoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenewsbreeze.com\/?p=92","title":{"rendered":"Grandma\u2019s Secret to Perfect Mashed Potatoes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Please, STOP boiling potatoes in water! When my grandma heard I was boiling potatoes like that to make mashed potatoes, she literally laughed at me \ud83e\udd23 She swore by a secret ingredient that makes the BEST mashed potatoes ever. Want to know what it is? Use this instead\u2014here\u2019s the recipe:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Grandma\u2019s Secret to Perfect Mashed Potatoes<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Ingredients:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Potatoes (your favorite kind, peeled and cut)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Milk or cream (warm)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Butter (lots of it!)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Broth or stock<\/strong> (chicken or vegetable \u2014 this is the magic!)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Salt and pepper to taste<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Instructions:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Instead of boiling potatoes in plain water, boil them in flavorful broth or stock. This infuses the potatoes with a rich taste from the start.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Once tender, drain them but reserve a little bit of the broth.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Mash the potatoes with butter, warm milk or cream, and gradually add some of the reserved broth until you reach that creamy, dreamy texture.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Season with salt and pepper.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>The broth gives your mash a depth of flavor that plain water just can\u2019t touch. Your mashed potatoes will taste richer, smoother, and way more delicious.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Try it next time and thank my grandma later \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please, STOP boiling potatoes in water! When my grandma heard I was boiling potatoes like that to make mashed potatoes, she literally laughed at me \ud83e\udd23 She&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsbreeze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsbreeze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsbreeze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsbreeze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsbreeze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsbreeze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsbreeze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions\/93"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsbreeze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsbreeze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsbreeze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsbreeze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}