INGREDIENTS :

5 kilos potatoes (I exploit half Yukon Gold, half Russet potatoes)
2 giant cloves garlic, minced
effective sea salt
6 tablespoons butter
1 cup entire milk
4 ounces cream cheese, room temperature
toppings: chopped recent chives or inexperienced onions, freshly-cracked black pepper

INSTRUCTIONS

Minimize the potatoes. Be at liberty to peel your potatoes or go away the skins on. Then lower them into evenly-sized chunks, about an inch or so thick, and switch them to a big stockpot filled with chilly water.
Boil the potatoes. As soon as your whole potatoes are lower, ensure that there may be sufficient chilly water within the pan in order that the water line sits about 1 inch above the potatoes. Stir the garlic and 1 tablespoon sea salt into the water. Then flip the warmth to excessive and prepare dinner till the water involves a boil. Scale back warmth to medium-high (or no matter temperature is required to keep up the boil) and proceed cooking for about 10-12 minutes, or till a knife inserted in the midst of a potato goes in simply with nearly no resistance. Rigorously drain out the entire water.
Put together your melted butter combination. In the meantime, because the potatoes are boiling, warmth the butter, milk and a further 2 teaspoons of sea salt collectively both in a small saucepan or within the microwave till the butter is simply melted. (You need to keep away from boiling the milk.) Put aside till prepared to make use of.
Pan-dry the potatoes. After draining the water, instantly return the potatoes to the recent stockpot, place it again on the recent burner, and switch the warmth right down to low. Utilizing two oven mitts, rigorously maintain the handles on the stockpot and shake it gently on the burner for about 1 minute to assist prepare dinner off a number of the remaining steam inside the potatoes. Take away the stockpot solely from the warmth and set it on a flat, heatproof floor.
Mash the potatoes. Utilizing your most well-liked sort of potato masher (I like to recommend this one basically, or this one for extra-smoo