Spinach Potatoes (or Potatoes Florentine)
Ingredients
- 4 lg potatoes, peeled, cut into 6 pieces
- 5 cups water
- ½ cup milk, or more as needed
- 2 tbsp butter
- 2 tbsp salt
- 1 pkg frozen spinach
- 2 tbsp lemon juice
Method
- Boil potatoes in a pot for 15-30 minutes until potatoes are soft enough to be easily pierced by a fork
- Drain out water, and dump potatoes into a medium bowl or casserole dish.
- Add ¼ cup milk and mash the potatoes thoroughly with a potato masher, together with butter melted from being in with the hot potatoes
- Stir in more milk as needed, add salt to taste, and whisk to make potatoes light and fluffy
- In a small covered dish, heat the spinach in a microwave for 5 minutes until spinach is soft
- Stir the spinach thoroughly into the mashed potatoes, and add lemon juice to taste.