Devine, Sublime Garlicky Mashed Potatoes

This recipe is from A Perfect Winter's Eve Supper

Potatoes like this are what love is all about.

Ingredients:

• 10 goodish sized organic red potatoes
• 1 head garlic, oiled and roasted for at least 45 minutes
• cream
• sour cream
• salt
• pepper
• butter

Quarter the unpeeled potatoes and boil until just done. They shouldn't be falling apart, but they should yield easily to a fork.

If you're making them ahead of time you cab boil them and leave them to sit on the stove in the hot water so you can mash them at your leisure.

When you're ready to mash add in a nice dollop each of butter, sour cream and cream (I'd use about 1./4 cup butter, and 1/3 cup of each type of cream) and squeeze in the whole head of nutty, creamy roasted garlic cloves, add in a little salt and fresh ground pepper and mash just enough to get a creamy, somewhat lumpy potatoe mixture - but absolutely no more than necessary as too much mashing will make your potatoes go all gluey.

<-------------Use a masher like this

                                       and avoid those like this ------------------>

as the latter tends to overmash and the skins get stuck and are a bugger to pick out of the little holes.