Best Ever Leftover Potatoes

These Best Ever Leftover Potatoes, solve the problem of dull leftover mashed potatoes. I don’t know about you, but I love leftovers! There are those certain dishes that are always better the next day, leftover spaghetti, for instance. A ham sandwiches after Easter, and almost any casserole. But, mashed potatoes seem to decline. This recipes takes those plain, boring potatoes and turns them into a dish that is better than the original!

A mashed potato side, that you’ll happily make regular mash, just to have the leftovers to do this with, trust me. The recipe combines leftover mashed potatoes, with cream cheese, sour cream and lots of cheddar cheese. Add in a few spices and you’ve got a dish, your family will wish came first, guaranteed!

My best friend calls this recipe Potatoes extraordinaire and with good reason, they’re so rich and creamy. Truly the star of any table. I came across a similar recipe in the Best of Bridge cook book series. And I think that’s what I love the most about cooking, everyone adds their tweak to a dish which makes it their personal favourite. Whether it’s extra onions or no onions, that extra sprinkle of cheese, a few olives. Every little additions or subtraction makes it uniquely yours.

How to make Best Ever Leftover Potatoes

I always use leftover potatoes for this. At most family gatherings, especially Christmas and thanksgiving when turkey is the main meat, I’m a firm believer that you must have gravy. The next day, however, I’m looking for these luscious potatoes. They take no time to whip them up.

I start by bringing my cream cheese to room temperature. If you’ve forgot to take it out of the fridge, prior to starting your recipe, here’s my little trick. Take the block of cream cheese out of the cardboard but leave it wrapped in the foil packaging that it comes with and then toss that into a bowl of very hot water. By the time you’ve gathered the rest of the ingredients it will have softened up a bit.

So, to make these Best Ever Leftover Potatoes, just mix all the ingredients together using a hand mixer. That’s it! Scoop the mix into a greased baking dish and then dot the top with pats of butter. Bake and serve it immediately.

After the first bite, your family may beg you to skip the regular everyday mashed potatoes and go straight to this leftover version. And really, there’s no reason you can’t. Just whip up a batch of regular mashed potatoes and then continue on with this recipe.

Seriously, this dish will be requested over and over. You may even catch yourself making extra potatoes, well, more than usual, for every one of the holidays, just so you’ll have leftovers to turn into this better-than-regular mashed potatoes.

If you love these Best Ever Leftover Potatoes, check out these other delicious side recipes, I’m sure they’ll hit the spot:

• Hometown Favourite Wedges and Dip
• Mediterranean Roasted Vegetables
• Southern Baked Macaroni and Cheese

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