Smashed Potato-and-Broccoli Casserole
Made this Sunday, but froze it for later. We needed to burn off some potatoes and some broccoli, so we decided this looked like an option.
Haven’t tasted it, so no taste rating, I’ll edit this and make a post with the update info when we try it out.
Dish: Side Dish
Taste: ?
Preparation: 4/5
Recipe: 4
Cost: $$
http://sidedish.allrecipes.com/AZ/SmshdPttndBrccliCssrl.asp
Taste: TBA
Preparation: Lost a point b/c you have to boil the potatoes and then smash them. It makes sense, but it’s a nuisance 
Overall the prep wasn’t too bad. Boil potatoes & smash, add broccoli, sour cream, ricotta cheese (yeah, not sure about that one yet 
) and seasoning. Mix, bake.
Recipe: The recipe calls for the potatoes to be mashed in a cup of the boiling water, with all that potato starch goodness an’ stuff. Bleah. I used milk instead Too much milk, actually, I think. We didn’t have the full recipe of potatoes so it got a little runny with a cup of milk. Dredged some out, but couldn’t get the rest due to the mashed potato in it Might affect it a bit, not as thick as should be an’ all.
OTOH, with the milk, sour cream, potatoes and cheese … that’s my baked potato recipe, except i have a lot more milk, potatoes and cheese in it, and no ricotta
Cost: Ricotta & sour cream, potatoes & broccoli. Milk & Cheese. Most of it dual-use purchases, but ricotta is less common, so it’ll bear the full brunt of the price. Probably 10$ total for all of that. Full cost would probably be closer to 20$, but since most of it will be used for another recipe or such, we don’t need the full cost as part of the rating.
Probably won’t make this a second time, since it seems so close to the baked potato soup. If I had used the water instead of milk, it wouldn’t be quite as close, but as it stands it looks just like the soup, really