We boiled up a chicken carcass, celery tops, carrots, and deeply singed half onions and made a fresh broth with a bit of black pepper. After straining that we dumped it into a large container and a pair of mugs for sipping.

In the meantime, DaKiddo got to help peel potato (Yukon Gold Baby Types) and we dropped them into boiling water with some flattened garlic cloves.

So without further thrashing�let�s get to the mashing. Mashed potato is one little bit of perfection in a deeply imperfect world�and it is ever-so-easy if one can manage to cook the tubers just short of becoming glop and add the right seasoning.

Here now, for your try it at home pleasure is the version ingested this evening.

Peeled Yukon Baby Golds

Olive Oil (No smell extra virgin variety�no cracks about Vestal Oils, Please)

Dark Truffle Oil (Dark tastes really mushroomy and the light truffle oil just tastes like a hint of garlic�you can buy them at Cost Plus reasonably.)

Butter (ideally unsalted euro-stylee)

Milk (or just MooJuice Per a little boy)

Salt and Pepper (ignore this if you want to let your eaters add to taste�and know that a good kosher salt is better in smashed potato as you don�t get the iodine flavor to go with�)

Garlic (itsa root product and comes in cloves� snip the ends with a knife, and bust the little suckers with either the side of a cleaver or a meat pounding tool. Wait! Get your heads out of your pants as we are talking the type of thang one uses to smash veal into flatter and tastier bits of deceased baby calf. Remove the skins from the now-flat cloves.)

Chives (ideally fresh as they are cheaper normally than freeze dried and certainly tastier.)

DaKiddo got to help peel potato (Yukon Gold Baby Types) and we dropped them into boiling water with some flattened garlic cloves.

We then poured some olive oil, milk and butter in a pan and brought it to a boil�

After straining the taters, we hand mashed with a lard cutter (there are potato mashers in some households�or if you prefer you can whip them into submission with an electric beater-like thing.)

We seasoned and thinned the smash with the boiling hot oil/milk/butter combo�

Just previous to serving we added a bunch of dark truffle oil and stirred it in� followed by freshly chopped chives.

The Boy�s quote about dinner?

�Dad, this not only fills me right up to the crannies, but it warms things up too�. That is weird, but nice.�