Peanut Butter Mashed Potatoes

Trust me; this tastes much better than it sounds. This admission may get me into trouble, but I am a fan of Bravo’s Top Chef. This season the chefs were asked to run a steak house and prepare special dishes. One of the contestants, Lisa, made peanut butter mashed potatoes and the judges really wanted to hate them but all loved them. I could not find any recipe for these anywhere, so this is my version and I make no illusions to them being anything like the Top Chef finalist. So…that’s where the crazy idea to combine these things came from. I boiled redskin potatoes until they were soft enough to mash. I added about 2-3 tablespoons of creamy peanut butter, about 2 tablespoons of butter and enough milk to make the potatoes soft. I worried that the potatoes were going to be too sweet so I also added a chopped chipotle pepper. The combination of nutty, creamy, spicy was really really good! I was just as surprised as the judges, but in my search for a recipe I came across many recipes for an Irish candy which is made from mashed potatoes and peanut butter so I guess you can throw in this flavor combination along with Guiness as something the Irish perfected.

If you’re curious, I served this along side a fillet of wildcaught sock-eye salmon which was delicious and some lovely bread from a local bakery here in Savannah called Back in the Day.