Lynn McKee: Hi! I’m Lynn with Lynn’s Meals in Minutes Personal Chef Service. Today, we are making flounder asparagus rolls with cheesy spinach mashed potatoes. We have boiled our one-and-a-half pounds of russet potatoes and drained them. I have now added them back to the hot pan and I’m going to get ready to mash them. If you’ve noticed, I’ve set the pan on a potholder for stability, so it’s not going to move around when I am mashing them also, if you do not have coated handles, make sure you use a potholder to hold it while you are mashing. Now we are going to add the butter into the hot pan, this is six tablespoons of salted butter, I’ve cut it up into smaller pieces, so it melts quicker and mashes easier. You could also use margarine if you would like. I have three tablespoons of milk; you could also use cream or half and half. I’m going to add into the pot and now I’m going to start to mash.
We are going to mash and stir kind of at the same time. If you really need to put some edible grease into it in order to get off the lumps out. But it should come together very quickly. The best way to tell if you are not sure if all the lumps are out is to taste. Now you just go get a clean fork, have a little bite and if you don’t feel any lumps, that means they are done. I’m pretty confident that these are mashed and don’t have any lumps left. Okay. Now we are going to add in one third of a cup of sour cream, four ounces of cubed Velveeta cheese. I like Velveeta for this because it melts very smoothly. You could substitute regular American, if you have it. I wouldn’t use cheddar, as it gets kind of stringy in something like this.
You can give it a stir to combine and then you are going to dump your two cups of baby spinach leaves raw. The heat from the potatoes now will wilt the spinach enough that you’ll be able to mix it and then we are going to put it into a greased baking dish and bake it and it will continue to cook the spinach and melt the cheese. Okay. Now we are going to take a baking dish, spray it with some cooking spray. We are going to spoon the mixture into the dish. Okay, just take a spatula or a spoon or whatever and kind of spread it into the dish, so it’s even and we are done with that. Now what we need to do is, to pop this and they are prepared asparagus rolls into the oven for 20 minutes and we’ll be doing that next.
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