Roasted Garlic Mashed Red Potatoes

Roasted Garlic Mashed Red Potatoes
Recipe courtesy of Life's Ambrosia

Ingredients

1 lb red potatoes, cleaned, scrubbed and cut into quarters
1 bulb roasted garlic (recipe follows), skin removed
1/4 cup half and half
2 tablespoons butter
salt and pepper to taste

Directions

In large pot of water, boil the potatoes until a fork can be inserted and removed easily from the potatoes. About 10 minutes. Strain.
Return the potatoes to the pot add roasted garlic, half and half, butter and salt and pepper. Mash until potatoes are your desired consistency.

Roasted Garlic

You will need:

1 bulb garlic
1 tablespoon butter
1 teaspoon lemon juice
kosher salt

Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
Cut 1/4 inch off the top of the bulb of garlic to expose the cloves beneath, but do not peel the garlic, you want to roast it in the skin. Place clove on a piece of aluminum foil, place butter on top, pour lemon juice over the garlic and sprinkle with kosher salt. Bring up all sides of aluminum foil and twist together to close. Cook for 60 minutes or until garlic cloves are soft and golden in color.
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