mashed potato toppings

[gilana]

My sister is planning on having a mashed potato bar as part of our Passover menu. I'm looking for suggestions for NON-DAIRY topping ideas. Go!

Comments

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

Schmaltz with gribnes. Maybe a little salt and pepper.

What else could you possibly need?

[magid.livejournal.com]

Caramelized onions and/or leeks; steamed broccoli; tomato sauce with or without meat; chives; sauteed eggplant; roasted tomatoes and zucchini; ground meat sauteed with onions and mushrooms; if you eat kitniyot, chickpeas.

[tallou.livejournal.com]

Chives, pesto, caramelized onions, shredded chicken, roasted garlic, flash-fried garlic chips

[muffyjo]

Stuffed jackets were big in London. They put just about anything and everything in them. Here are some of the ones I liked:

Tuna salad (there are ways of preparing it without dairy, I'm sure),

peas,

broccoli,

ground turkey with spices (maybe a smoked paprika?),

your bacon salt would be lovely,

corn

Those are a few that come to mind.

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

Are there ways of preparing tuna salad with dairy? What sorts of dairy things can go in tuna?

[gilana]

I'm betting the confusion is around mayo, which, although white and creamy, is not actually dairy.

[muffyjo]

Well, mayonnaise, although I'm not sure that has dairy so much as egg and oil. And there's always shredded cheese!

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

Yup, mayonnaise is egg and oil, no dairy.

[valadil.livejournal.com]

Chili?

[wellstar.livejournal.com]

Bacon bits!

Oh wait. ;)

I think the people who have already commented have hit on most of my suggestions except scallions.

[vanguardcdk.livejournal.com]

heh, I had the same thought. Bacon! Yes! Errr...

Bacon Salt! Yes! That's what I meant...

[gilana]

Actually, Bacos are kosher, but not kosher for Passover. But I'm trying to find out if there is kosher beef bacon that is also certified for Passover. Trust me, bacon was, sadly, one of the first things I thought of. :)

[bismuthobsidian.livejournal.com]

turkey bacon???

[gilana]

Oddly, I've found kosher beef "bacon" much more frequently than turkey bacon. But I'll definitely have to check at the Butcherie.

[wellstar.livejournal.com]

bacon was, sadly, one of the first things I thought of.

I figured. But how could I resist? I mean, after all, you know how I feel about bacon on Passover.

Also, Bacos are gross.

[currentlee.livejournal.com]

balsamic vinegar.
it's what i put on my baked potatoes when i'm fleishy.

[redknight.livejournal.com]

Can you make good mashed potatoes without using milk and butter?

[gilana]

Sure, you can use margarine and non-dairy creamer. We always make it that way for fleishig meals, and it comes out fine. But I've only rarely had dairy ones, so I can't really compare.

[oakenguy.livejournal.com]

Maple syrup is quite nice.

[chanaleh.livejournal.com]

I defer to magid's usual food cleverness. :-)
The things that had already come to my mind before that were:
caramelized onions
stewed tomatoes (starting from "veggie chili! oh wait, no beans, no corn, no soy... hmm." Though I suppose actual meat chili would also be an option!)
broccoli

I love chives/scallions, but mostly with sour cream. :-}

Bangers!

[bismuthobsidian.livejournal.com]

chicken sausage..mmmmm
fried mushrooms
fried tomatoes
baked beans
cornflakes?
almonds
sesame seeds
vegan pesto?

Now, I am hungry!

[kvarko.livejournal.com]

I think you can put just about any meal on a baked potato. There's a takeout place that my parents go to in New Zealand called Stad's that serves baked potatos as meals. It's actually so stuffed that I make two meals out it :) They put a big potato in a polystyrene clamshell container and then smother with a buffet of toppings. There's an array of butters (garlic butter etc) and then sour cream or not and grated cheese or not and then you can have a coleslaw mix thrown on (cabbage and carrots and whatnot) and then your choice of 6 hot fillings -- I always get the Thai satay peanut sauce, but they also have Bolognese and some others that I forget because I never order them :) According to the webpage, it's things like smoked fish, mushrooms in a sauce, tomato bacon and onion. And you can get half one sauce half another, which my brother does.

Anyway, you'd obviously want to avoid the butter, cheese, and sour cream -- is satay made with dairy?

[gilana]

Too bad that's too far to go for a meal, that sounds fabulous.

I've never made satay -- I had thought it used yogurt, but it looks like maybe not, although it is generally served with peanut sauce, and we don't do peanuts on Passover.

[heliopsis.livejournal.com]

I think soy sauce on a baked potato is really delicious. It looks nasty, all black and weird, but the flavour is wonderful. I suppose, though, that since soy sauce is fermented, it wouldn't be kosher for Passover...

How about mixins for your mashed potatoes? I love including some celeriac with my mashed potatoes, so you could boil and mash some celeriac to stir in. Or turnip, same thing.

I suppose this is too obvious, but how about a couple different kinds of gravy? The hard part would be getting the appropriate drippings to make good gravy. But for instance, you could get some of those kosher chicken legs, roast them, then make gravy from the drippings (and do whatever you like with the meat...)

[magid.livejournal.com]

The fermentation isn't an issue for Passover, but the soy base is; most Ashkenazi Jews don't eat kitniyot, a rather broad extra category of foods that inclue all beans, peas, and corn, and things made from them (as well as some other stuff).