Vegan Mashed Potatoes With Garlic Chives

My entire life, I’ve been fooled into thinking that mashed potatoes take so long to make and are so special that they are a side reserved only for Thanksgiving and Christmas. And even after years of being one of the kitchen leads during the holidays {knowing that mashed potatoes are not tough} they still feel like a special occasion thing.

With that said, nothing particularly special happened today to warrant mashed potatoes. I’m about to finish my first restaurant project {the construction portion}. And I’m about to head to Italy for the trip of a lifetime. But nothing out of the ordinary happened that called for mashed potatoes today.

But as I wandered around Whole Foods after yoga {an atypical 40-ish minutes of wandering}, I kept thinking about potatoes. And not quite the holiday potatoes I’m accustomed to, but vegan potatoes with garlic chives that I would later confuse by pairing with a steak. Vegan potatoes with garlic chives that my steak-eating roommate said was the best part of his meal.