{"id":752,"date":"2010-01-13T15:49:06","date_gmt":"2010-01-13T21:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/?p=752"},"modified":"2010-01-13T16:26:56","modified_gmt":"2010-01-13T22:26:56","slug":"truffle-mashed-potatoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/?p=752","title":{"rendered":"Truffle Mashed Potatoes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/019.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-753\" title=\"019\" src=\"http:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/019.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"237\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Steamed broccoli.\u00a0 Chicken thighs sprinkled with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/?p=294\">Baby Bam<\/a>, then grilled and sliced.\u00a0 Truffle Mashed potatoes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">(I wanted the focus of this meal to be on the potatoes, so I thought the rest of the food should be simple.\u00a0 I thought using Baby Bam on the chicken would be fitting, since the potato recipe is also from Emeril Lagasse.)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Potato recipe <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foodnetwork.com\/recipes\/emeril-live\/truffle-mashed-potatoes-recipe\/index.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I was thrilled <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">recently<\/span> a few months ago (cause I&#8217;m the most procastinating blogger there is) to find some beautiful black truffles for sale at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wholefoodsmarket.com\/stores\/lamar\/\">Whole Foods<\/a>.\u00a0 It was the first time that I had ever seen them for sale in Austin, although before having very liberal access to them on our family trip to Italy this summer, I was never quite so passionate about them.\u00a0 I grabbed them from the produce case without a second thought, knowing that I would be able to come up with something fabulous to use them in.\u00a0 There were three in the small, clear plastic deli box (I can&#8217;t BELIEVE that I forgot to take a photo!) and they were packed in arborio rice, which is typical, but is also controversial.\u00a0 I cooked some in a roasted chicken (more on that later) and made some into <a href=\"http:\/\/cookalmostanything.blogspot.com\/2009\/01\/whb-165.html\">truffle butter<\/a> (this link will also allow you to read up on the storage-in-rice controversy) and then used what was left to make these mashed potatoes.\u00a0 They were earthy and buttery and fabulous.\u00a0 Now that truffle season is over, I know that I will be craving them until next summer, when I plan to order some from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dartagnan.com\">d&#8217;Artagnan<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steamed broccoli.\u00a0 Chicken thighs sprinkled with Baby Bam, then grilled and sliced.\u00a0 Truffle Mashed potatoes. (I wanted the focus of this meal to be on the potatoes, so I thought the rest of the food should be simple.\u00a0 I thought using Baby Bam on the chicken would be fitting, since the potato recipe is also &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/?p=752\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Truffle Mashed Potatoes&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,14,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-menus","category-side-dishes-starch","category-spices-and-seasonings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=752"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":758,"href":"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752\/revisions\/758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}