Homemade Mashed Potatoes and Milk Gravy- Quick and Easy Side Dish
ฝัง
- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 ก.ย. 2024
- Homemade Mashed Potatoes and Milk Gravy
21/2 pounds potatoes
1 stick of butter
milk
salt and pepper
Peel potatoes and cut into approximately half inch cubes. Keep potatoes in water until your ready to boil them so they don’t turn brown. Boil fifteen to twenty minutes just until tender.
Drain well then blend in a mixing bowl with the butter, a few splashes of milk, and the salt and pepper to taste.
Milk Gravy
1 stick of butter
1/2 cup all purpose flour
4 cups milk
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon pepper
Melt butter in skillet. Whisk in flour cooking one to two minutes until it’s lightly browned. Add milk in one cup increments whisking well to remove all lumps. Stir in salt and pepper.
If the gravy becomes too thick, stir in another couple splashes of milk. 
To reheat gravy:
Place in a microwave safe bowl and reheat on medium for 1-2 minutes, stirring after each minute. Or heat on stove in a saucepan over medium heat stirring to keep from burning.
CONTACT INFORMATION:
Come Sit At My Table
P.O. Box 1041
Mt. Sterling, KY 40353
#mashedpotatorecipe #mashedpotatoandgravy #comfortfood #gravy
We love mashed potatoes here too!
My mom always fried chicken and then used the grease with bits of the crispy fried part left with the grease to make her milk gravy. She always just served with boiled potatoes but that was my very favorite meal from childhood. The bits of chicken with the fried crust gravy was divine. I never fixed in adulthood because she never taught me to make gravy. Thank you for teaching me, now I can fix and eat one of my favorite meals.
This makes us so happy to hear. We love getting feedback like this. Thank you so much for reaching out to us. Have a fantastic day!
Another fine video! Keep up the good work.
Good idea your mom had, just serve the gravy over boiled potatoes!
My mom did too, and it was so good.
Chicken gravy is my fave ❤
My grandma told me a long time ago (when I was a young girl), how to determine the amount of potatoes to prepare. A good rule of thumb is: 1 potato per person , plus a potato for the pot. Of course, one must also consider the size of the potatoes being used…. I’ve enjoyed watching your videos, along with your memories of the persons who shared their recipes along the way. Thank you.
I was going to say that’s what my MIL always said. But she also added an extra one.
So 1 potatoes per person, one for the pot and one extra.
That’s what I have done too
@@kmhealed I don't think you can ever have too much when it comes to mashed potatoes. Potato cakes, potato soup, cottage pie...so many ways to use them up.
I was watching about my ‘leventy-seventh ‘Come Sit At My Table’ video and I thought, man, I never ever even think about the filming. It’s so excellent and precision, you just take it for granted! I’m not blowing smoke here. I always decide an actor can’t act when I’m sitting there thinking more about the actor than I am the movie. Same here. Good job, Melissa. Seriously!!
I love your presentations! Cooking for normal people.
Thank you so much! We are about as "normal" as you can get! We definitely aren't fancy in the kitchen, but we do enjoy good food and we've had so much fun creating this channel together! We appreciate so much that you are watching!
In my family they had multiple names for white gravy. Chicken gravy, bacon gravy, sausage gravy, they seldom made it with butter.
Nothing better than milk gravy and biscuits. Yum.
Melissa is right about the comfort food- when I was pregnant with my second child, and had morning sickness all day, all I could keep down was mashed potatoes and gravy. Tom my husband likes lumps too.
It's like top 5 comfort foods in my opinion ! Thanks so much for watching our channel. We really do appreciate it.
I never peel my potatoes - even for mashed potatoes - the skins have nutrients. I love ❤️ potatoes, too! Give me a bowl of mashed potatoes for
dinner and I’m just fine. Meat loaf and mashed potatoes are my comfort foods. 😋😋😋
Yessir!!! Thank you for showing how to fix both the potatoes and the gravy...🇺🇸 👍☕
I too, am a big fan of mashed potatoes, fried potatoes, baked potatoes, “ just potatoes “ in general! Lol. You make yours exactly how I make mine. 👍😁. Your gravy, I will give it a serious try Tom! I don’t make gravy but for breakfast, but you have inspired me to make this gravy for our mashed potatoes! I love gravy on my mashed potatoes, Thank you! You are a very easy teacher in the kitchen to follow! 👍. I bet you & your lovely wife we’re great teachers in school too! I sure appreciate your patience & organization , of your start to finish, with every recipe! 1st step to the last step, is easily understood! God bless!
What a delicious combo! Add a Hot buttered biscuit on the side and you hit all of your carb-comfort cravings. 😊
Love mashed potatoes. I like green peas and mashed potatoes. Thanks so much.
Tom, are you a chef ? As in, your working life? You do a wonderful job cooking for yourself, Melissa and your family! I enjoy watching you. My husband always helped me when he was feeling up to it. He is with Jesus now. You and Melissa both are a blessing to us! Thank you so much for sharing your skills and your channel.
Tom and I are both retired school teachers. His teaching skills shine through in the kitchen. I am so sorry for the loss of your husband. Tom and I both really appreciate your encouraging words.
@@comesitatmytable9044 Thank you Melissa!! So very kind of you to comment and share his skills and your great camera work!
My father fried side pork, we called it strip pork, thickly cut like you’d put into homemade beans. He’d use the grease and make a roux with the fat then add water and make the best gravy. Best to be done in a cast iron skillet. 🇨🇦🇨🇦
That’s the ONLY mashed potatoes and gravy I’ll eat! Instant potatoes & store bought gravy in a jar? YUK!!!!!
I love your videos because a lot of people just don't know how to make even the simplest of things. I do because I was raised in the country in the South. My favorite potatoes to mash are the russet or Idaho bakers. Red potatoes, to me, always turn out kind of a gummy consistency. Although I've used regular milk in them, I prefer to use evaporated milk and always real butter if I have it. Good gravy! Or, if you are in a pinch and need something more low fat, Morrison's white peppered gravy mix in the white bag at Walmart is very good. It is also a good thing to have in your pantry. On a side note, try making tomato gravy sometime and serve over biscuits. It's an old Southern recipe. God bless! Nancy Moore from Arkansas
The best part of left overs is potatoe patties, nothing wrong with making too much. Your the best❤😂
I always add some chicken bouillon to my water when boiling potatoes. It gives them extra flavor!😊
Y'all are so cute together! We need to see Melissa doing the cooking!!
Thanks Tom and Melissa! Two of my daughters are vegetarian. They love my homemade mashed potatoes, and I always use a lot of butter and I use a little warmed half n half, but I feel bad when I make a meat-based gravy for us and they don't have gravy for theirs, so this recipe is perfect!
The best mashed pot. Use Idaho, or russet potatoes always always salt the water you cook your pot. in then drain cut half stick butter in add pepper then whip with half and half or heavy whipping cream best ever
I like and enjoy your cooking program. You explain well what you cook and how you cook. Watching you from Manuelito NM west of Gallup NM. This is on the Navaho Reservation. Greedings. God bless.
Thanks for watching and we are so excited to have you joining us at the table. We hope you are a having a very nice day!
You can also open a can of beef stew, pour into baking dish, topped with left-over mashed potatoes as a quick Shepherds Pie. I’ve done that many of times.
That's a great idea! Sometimes we just have to take shortcuts like that to make a great dinner! Thanks for sharing your ideas! We appreciate you watching.
I usually put at least 2-3 sticks I’d butter in my mashed potatoes. I use heavy cream instead of milk and they are incredible. Anytime I go anywhere where there’s food I’m asked to make mashed potatoes. They are so good. *pats self on back* 🤣🤣🤣
Dad always made bacon grease gravy. So so good. Anyone who doesn’t save and use bacon grease is off their rocker. I have a friend in England and he thinks I’m insane for using bacon grease. Until he used it to sauté some mushrooms in. He’s now a believer. Great video. I’d do love to sit at your table! 💜
How long does bacon grease last? Bacon grease is wonderful for cornbread and other southern food as well as the gravy. We save it, and we put it in the refrigerator. I can't tell when it spoils and how long it takes to spoil.
Shepard’s Pie is what I make *if* I have leftover mashed taters. TY for your videos and wonderful southern small talk. 👏🏼
I made your goulash recipe and oh my was it good. I’m 76 and have cooked for many many years. One thing I have always done is adding any and all of my seasoning when I soften garlic and onions. The heat will bloom the oil in seasoning and wakes up great flavor. Love to watch your channel. Thanks for both of you being a positive inspiration.
If you don't have bacon grease, chicken fat or duck fat also work.
Like you said fat or grease or butter help create the flavor.
If allergic to milk or don't eat dairy or something, people could use that potato water to make the gravy and the potato starch will aid in the creaminess and thickening.
Ya made me hungry! I have a bushel of potatoes in the crawl soace, too!
Yes, creamy with a few small lumps!!
Thank you for the ideas. We appreciate that you've given us a chance. Have a wonderful day!
Yep want milk gravy for this. Try it out. Tom is my favorite.
I am craving fresh seafood 😊
Food IS one of the most beautiful gifts God gave us 💖
🥔I watch your basic cooking videos, looking for helpful hints. Thank you for the mention of the "raw flour" taste. I hadn't known!
Why did I never make white gravy for mashed potato’s that are cooked alone? always made meat gravy from a roast, or even if I broiled or fried whatever meat I was cooking, but never thought of making white gravy when I didn’t have drippings from the meat, meanwhile I have made country gravy with chicken fried steak??? OPENED MY EYES, THANK YOU TOM & MALISSA. I’m following love your recipes & Videos.
Hi … potatoes are my favorite veggie.. I’m diabetic so really have to watch myself when potatoes are on the table…Keep those recipes coming and don’t forget to put a lid on it !
My Mother used to make milk gravy after frying pork chops. The pork drippings made the BEST gravy. I did that a few weeks ago...OMG...brought back such good memories.
Did you teach science math or coach? You really teach us like a professor!
My daughter wanted mashed potatoes but she wanted ones like she had in school, so I asked her what was different about them, and she said they were sweet. I was confused as to why or how they were sweet but I made her some and added a little powdered sugar and she was so so happy and said that was what they tasted like!!:). It is amazing how many different ways you can make simple mashed potatoes!!
once cold, I freeze my extra mashed potatoes in zip lock bags. So easy to take out of the freezer and heat in the microwave!
That's a very practical solution. Thank you for sharing your tip with all of us.
I love home made mashed potatoes and gravy
Depending on the size of the potato I use one person and one for the pot. Thanks for the gravy!
That’s my general rule of thumb, too! (Medium sized potatoes.)
My mom does the same thing (a dent or well ) when serving mashed potatoes. 😊 yes, it's very simple confort food.
Tom and Melissa this recipe made me think of my Momma and my dear Mother in law (who is still with us thank the Lord). They are true Southern ladies who only made two types of gravy. Brown or White. My Momma always had lots of pepper in her white gravy so I was with you Tom on the heavy pepper. Since I am still rather new here I want to make a request. Please think about doing holiday meals for us. I would love your take on Roast Turkey. I see you have a Brown Sugar / Honey Glazed Ham recipe that I will eventually watch but really want your take on the Turkey. Thanks and God Bless!
I love all of you all's videos Susan from Kentucky
Yummy, that looks so delicious. I just always make instant potatoes, but I am going to buy a bag of potatoes and try to make real potatoes now. I would want some biscuits with that gravy. I love gravy and biscuits. My gravy comes out of a pack you're a much better cook than me. I'm going to try your gravy recipe too. Thanks, God bless❤
Hey Tom and Melissa!! My grandma used to make potato salad when she had left over mashed potatoes, yum, that was so good!! Love your channel, you make some good stuff !!! 😊💖💖
My mom and grandma taught me when making my mashed potatoes to warm my milk and butter together then while mashing add warm milk and melted butter as needed. That way potatoes don’t get cold from using cold milk or butter. I was also taught one medium size potato per person plus one extra. Thanks for the great videos. I have tried so many recipes and they all are excellent!
My grma taught me to use canned milk in it.
I put a little horseradish in mine
Love Love mashed potatoes and gravy!! Thanks, Tom & Melissa, for sharing your delicious-looking recipes! God bless! 💕🤗🙏🏻
I love mashed potatoes and gravy
Another good potato choice is the red potato with the skin on. Smashed redskin potatoes are so tasty
Thanks for sharing
You're welcome. And the red potatoes would be great. Our youngest daughter loved the small red potatoes fried in a skillet. So I know she would love the smashed version, too!
I always make a lot of mashed potatoes. I use butter, cream cheese, potato water, and milk. What we don’t use I freeze in meal size packages. Comes in handy.
Best comfort food ever!!! ❤
My mom always made gravy from the drippings from frying chicken or pork chops. ❤ we always put our raw potatoes in cold water and brought to a boil. I saw Talle Faye make gravy from butter. I love white gravy. Thanks for sharing your recipes.
Fried potato patties with eggs was such a treat if we had leftover mashed potatoes. ❤
There are some really great recipes for dinner buns around using mashed potatoes, too!
I brown flour in a skillet and keep it in a jar so that when flour is needed for cooking not baking it saves time. Just found your enjoyable and delicious channel TY both.
We're so glad you found us. Thanks for watching. We really appreciate it! And thanks for sharing your cooking and time saving tip!
That is my comfort food 100%❤❤❤
This Homemade Mashed Potatoes and milk gravy recipe looks so delicious 😋 Mr. Tom. A lot of people who live in the southern part of the states they live in when they use a mixer to make their Mashed Potatoes with call them Creamed Potatoes.
Delicious Southern food! I love potatoes any how they're fixed! And I grew up on mashed potatoes/gravy/fried chicken. Sunday dinner!
I do miss the days of a traditional Sunday dinner. It was such a nice bonding time for families.
I love ❤️ lumpy mashed potatoes, too!! I alsoash my potatoes with some French onion chips dip to get some onion flavor without the onion pieces...delish!! 😋.
Thank you so much for watching our video.
For the ultimate cream gravy use canned milk, for creamed soups too.
My grandma always made her gravy with bacon grease (of course) and evaporated milk. She was the best cook! So that’s how I make mine. But I have used whole milk when I was out of evaporated milk.
Wish I could cook the same time you do- I watch your videos when I go to bed. Alot safer for me. Insulin dependant diabetic. But watching the potatoes and gravy video, almost had me getting up to try my hand at it. I love your videos because sometimes you really do take me back to my childhood. When you showed the koolaid pies, I was six years old again in hot Chicago weather. I need to go back through all the other videos that I can and see there I know was one other that took me further back.
Bless you, Tom and Melissa. I could use some help with the younger generation of cooks in my family.
I love all your shirts. I especially liked the one about being left handed. I’m going to look for one for my daughter-in-law.
Tom just loves a good t-shirt. Thanks so much for watching and being a part of our channel.
I love all kinds of potatoes. !!!
We do too
My mother called it milk gray, she made it the way you are doing it. A nice Rib Eye steak. 😊
hello, you can thicken gravy after you add milk or water, you take equal parts butter and flour mix well, use a spoonful at time, no lumps.found this on glen and friends cooking channel, i enjoy your show, thanks chris
Thank you, Chris, for watching and sharing your tip for thickening gravy. It's great to hear from you.
Love this. Looks amazing 😊 Keep em coming!!!
Great lesson in making milk gravy! I know where I’ve gone wrong, and now I can fix it. Thank you!
This looks so good. I could make a meal out of what you just prepared. Potatoes are a daily staple however they are made, but mashed with gravy tops the list.
Really enjoyed this vlog ... may actually start making "real" mashed potatoes again ... great demo on how to make milk gravy.
As a graduate of The Culinary Institute of America and a chef for over 30 years. I would like to mention you should add potatoes to cold water and let the water come up to a boil while the potatoes are in the cold water. The starch in the potatoes can react as soon as it comes in contact with boiling hat water. The outside will cook quicker and the potatoes will cook uneven.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us all! It's a little bit intimidating to have such a well-trained chef watching! We appreciate it very much!
you should not be intimidated. You have some great southern comfort recipes that you prepare. The quality is good.@@comesitatmytable9044
Yes, I was waiting for someone to say this.
Russet potatoes make the best mashed potatoes.
My grandmother was a farmer and she had said if a vegetable grew in the ground, such as potatoes that you dig up, you start them cooking in cold water, but if a vegetable grows above ground, you’d start cooking them in hot water. Maybe an old wives tale, but who knows?
I love how tom takes criticism from Melissa so cute...
Comfort food absolutely. Yum!
You can always make fried potato patties from left over potatoes. They are yummy. Love your videos!
Thanks for teaching me how to make milk gravy!! 😋 Having mashed potatoes and milk gravy tomorrow night!! 😋
We are so happy to hear that! Thank you so much for watching
I’m going to make my mashed potatoes just like yours and I’ll bet It’ll taste better than mine 😊 and I’ll have to try to make milk gravy too which I have never made before. Thank you for sharing ❤
Delicious Yum! Just the way my dad and mom had taught me they were great cooks! 😊
Thank you for Teaching Me To Cook
Love how you show everything step-by-step. Love watching your videos.
OMG this is the best since I watched your video. I’ve made it twice lol not to mention I live alone so I love it it freezes nice. Thank you very much.
I like to warm my milk up in the microwave.I also like to melt my butter in the microwave because I think the potatoes taste better.I like to add a little garlic powder.
I’ve never known how to make gravy. I’m a try it now.
My ex mother in law was a full flooded Italian lady. She made the creamiest mashed potatoes you ever tasted. Her secret was to add a "handfull" of shredded mozzarella cheese. Try it....really good. P. S. My dad was a cook in the RCAF in WWII.....he would call that gravy you made "white sauce". : )
We sure appreciate his service. And we appreciate that you shared your mother in law's tip for creamy mashed potatoes. It's great having you at our table.
I always make extra mashed, love left overs and the potato cakes are so good. I have not made those a lot though.
Leftover mashed potatoes is always a good idea! Thanks so much for watching our channel. We really appreciate it.
I always make too many mashed potatoes too, yeah, we do potato cakes, reheated mashed potatoes but my favorite is to leave the mashed potatoes in fridge for a few days, cook some potato soup and use the mashed potatoes as my thickener. I used to visit an old granny lady who always had to feed me, (Yes that is the Kentucky way at least in my family). She would make me potato soup using mashed potatoes, a couple cooked potatoes, celery etc. If I am not feeling like eating much I will pull out my emergency box of instant potatoes and make a little soup. I love to watch you two, I have told many friends to come and watch. I told one there is always room for one more at your table.
I was taught 2 potatoes per person, but as a kid I had my mom take me potatoes out before she mashed, and I melt butter on them, because I didn’t like mashed potatoes. As adult I love them
Well, YUM!! YUM YUM!!!
Definitely! Thanks for watching.
@@comesitatmytable9044 xo You're welcome
I love potatoes 🥔. A person cannot do bad making potatoes with your meal. I've even made potatoes as the main course for myself for a meal.
They are the ultimate comfort food I believe. We appreciate that you've watched our video.
I'm almost 75 my mom showed me how to mash potatoes with a hand masher "whire trpe" and to this day I do it the same way never with a mixer but you did redeem yourself by leaving small chuncks in, bless you friend
After my mom died my dad taught himself to cook. He made the best white gravy.
Ohh, bless his heart! Thank you so much for sharing that. We love how food can remind us of people we love.
I’ve never made milk gravy before. It looks delicious.
Thank you! We think it's very good. We really appreciate that you are watching our channel.
Love your channel, keep it up
A good rule of thumb is to boil one or one and half potato per person. The more people then just go with one med potato per person and you will have around two servings per person when you judge like that. If we are having a salad and a couple of veggies you just eat an average serving. If you are serving just meat and potatoes then obviously your serving size will be larger. The hardest thing for me has always been cooking for two. 😊 ❤
You can add cold water or milk with corn starch to the hot gravy if it gets too thin. Just for future reference. It seriously does work. Doesn’t take very much. Maybe 1/4 cup cold liquid & 2 T corn starch. Whisk into the gravy & works like a charm.
Nice job
I'm going to try this recipe.
Thank you.
I WAS TOLD BY MY GRAN THAT YOU FIX 1 FOR YOUR SELF, 1 FOR EACH PERSON THAT SETS AT YOUR TABLE, AN 1 FOR THE GOOD LORD...
SOME TIMES IT COMES OUT ABOUT RIGHT DEPENDING ON THE SIZE OF THE TATER...
MOST OF THE YOUNGER GENS DONT EVEN KNOW HOW TO BOIL WATER SO THIS IS A GREAT TEACHING VID... THANKS FOR THAT LESSON...
HOPE THIS HELPS
I am more into bisquits and gravy, but making mash potatoes that really taste good is great. 👍
I understand. I think we are just gravy lovers in general. It's great to have you with us at the table with us.
USE CANNED EVAPORATED MILK INSTEAD OF REGULAR MILK... MAGNIFICENT FLAVOR..ALSO USE CANNED MILK FOR CREAM GRAVY...you can add the extra regular milk to both if you need more milk.
Put a Chicken bullion cube in your gravy!!
This is how I make mine!!
I LOVE LEFTOVERS....
Absolutely! Cook once, eat twice is what we say at our house!
I'm lactose intolerant so I just use a lactose -free milk. You can't tell the difference. My son has celiac disease so I am going to try this with alternate flour and just see what happens. Might be a disaster, might be good. Who knows? I love white gravy. It's one of the first things my mama taught me to make. I still all these years later sometimes burn my roux and have to fix it. Stay right on it, folks. You can't look away for a second! LOL - y'all are great. I really enjoy your recipes and your stories. Blessings to you and your family, and blessings to all who are watching 🙏
I really hope this turns out well for you. Thank you so much for the nice comments and the encouragement you have given us.
Классное рецепт
Love you all's videos.. I have subscribed to all of them
I just found your channel last night! You were cooking in FL. I’m a retired elem teacher/counselor from Knox Co., KY. Moved to FL in 2008 and moved back home to KY in March. Can’t wait to try some of your scrumptious recipes! 😋
Thanks for your comments and for watching the video. We appreciate it.