Blue Cheese and Roasted Apple Mashed Potatoes

(from largomason’s recipe box)

Ingredients

  • 4 pounds Yukon Gold potatoes, peeled and quartered
  • 2 teaspoons olive oil
  • 1 (8-ounce) package cream cheese
  • 2-3 Golden Delicious apples
  • 1 cup blue cheese
  • 2/3 cup milk
  • 2 Tablespoons butter
  • 3 Tablespoons honey
  • salt and pepper
  • 1 tablespoons chopped fresh chives

Directions

  1. Peel and chop the apples. Place them in a piece of tin foil and drizzle olive oil and season with salt and pepper.

  2. Wrap up the apples in the tin foil. Bake in a 350 degree oven for about 20 minutes. The apples will be very soft.

  3. Boil the potatoes in a large pot of water. Cook the potatoes until a knife comes out easily. Drain the potatoes and put in a large bowl. Mash with a potato masher, ricer, beaters, whatever your weapon of choice is. Add the roasted apples and mash them too.

  4. Add the cream cheese. Mash that together.

  5. Add the chives. I save some for garnish. Add the blue cheese.

  6. Add the honey. Season well with salt and pepper. The blue cheese is salty, so season slowly and taste as you go. You may also need to add a little more honey to balance the flavors.

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