When it comes to comfort-food side dishes, it's tough to compete with mashed potatoes. But for something so simple, the mashed variety is easy to mess up. Lumpy, gluey, floury, or bland, the list of ...

"The actual type of potato and the quality of butter that is used in French mashed potatoes are both important and make for a tastier purée, one that can stand alone," she says. If perfect purée is ...