Nitin Gadkari’s ultimate comfort food? Batata vada. From childhood memories to home-cooked recipes, this humble Maharashtrian ...

Mashed potatoes don’t have to be bland to be comforting. With a few simple techniques and the right balance of flavors, I turn them into something truly magical—creamy, rich, and impossible to stop ...

You'll never settle for regular mashed potatoes again. Marcia Kiesel, a former Food & Wine test kitchen supervisor, is an experienced chef and recipe developer who graduated from the Culinary ...

How often do you get a song in your head that you can’t stop humming or singing? As I was working on my laptop, my wife, Jackie, was reading emails on hers. I heard a big “ooo eee.” Before she could ...

Mashed potatoes, that humble but hearty side dish for many an all-American meal, are textbook comfort food, thanks to the abundant warmth, creamy texture, and rich foundation of salt and butter (and ...

Repeat after me: I shall not attempt to make every last little Thanksgiving appetizer, side dish, and dessert from scratch. When the holidays roll around and you're suddenly faced with hosting friends ...

I used to search through magazines and cookbooks every year for new recipes to try for Thanksgiving. Finally, my family staged a small revolt and asked me not to do this anymore; they looked forward ...

For years, food magazines have preached the many wonders of Yukon Gold potatoes. They told us Golds were the superior spud—the only potato worth mashing. They made us feel like a fool for even ...

I often love Ina Garten's easy, flavorful recipes, so I gave her buttermilk mashed potatoes a try. The buttermilk made this dish more flavorful than other mashed-potato recipes I've followed. From now ...

I was as surprised as anyone to find myself on a Saturday afternoon in October doing a mashed potato science experiment. The journey started just before Thanksgiving last year, when my sister and I ...

There is nothing more stressful than wrestling a large pot of boiling potatoes off the stove at the last minute to drain them in the sink, all so you can serve hot mashed potatoes with Thanksgiving ...