One more review hardly seems worth it - so many have already praised this dish. But I'm adding my 2 cents anyhow: Very good - VERY garlicky.
I, too, scaled it down for 10 people. Red potatoes boil up very nicely and make it easy to use your blender on them once they're done. I very much liked the strong garlic taste - but a few of my guests did not. However, one did ask for the recipe, and that rarely happens. I did not use quite so much butter as the recipe wanted - I used 2 sticks for the 5 lb of potatoes. After all was said and done, it was more like creamed potatoes than mashed. But I liked it a lot.
My suggestion on the garlic: next time I make these, I plan on blanching (boiling) the garlic. This, too, will cut down on the rawness of it without killing the flavor. I would suggest putting in the garlic with the boiling potatoes during the last 10 min of boling as this would both flavor the potatoes and tone down the garlic as well.
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