Mashed potatoes and kalabasa (squash)
Almost two years ago, my then 12-year-old daughter thought that what we could do with potatoes, we could do with kalabasa (squash). And our side dish of mashed kalabasa was born. Wonderful as it tasted, it was much mushier than mashed potatoes. In fact, it was kind of watery. Then someone, I forget who, suggested combining kalabasa with potatoes. Well, after almost two years, I finally took up the suggestion. I even went a step farther–I added chopped onion and garlic sauteed in butter.
There you see it in the photo–the mashed potatoes and kalabasa that accompanied tonight’s dinner of lechon sa hurno.
And because I happened to have a couple of Chinese ham bones, I simmered the kalabasa and potatoes in water together with the bones. I’ll let your imagination do its thing. 
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That’s an interesting take on the traditional mashed potatoes! The best mashed potatoes I’ve had, and have successfully duplicated, actually had roast garlic and whole grain mustard added to it. I had that dish when I went to Ireland and was served gloriously tender lamb shanks on a bed of roasted garlic-mustard mashed potatoes.
By the way, I think Sam is a future star chef in the making.
A combination of potato + orange sweet potato/carrots work REALLY well too. I love orange sweet potatoes, but mashed by itself it’s a bit too watery and sweet.
Marie, roasted garlic sounds delicious. I should experiment some more.
Sam wants to become a pro chef. She should talke over this blog in a few years. 
Rose, isn’t sweet potato too fibrous for mashing?
Yeah, which is why the potato is great for giving it more body. Sweet potato and potato mash is great with steak and gravy.
Just curious,
I’m on a special date…trying to get my abs back…love filipino food…but just so fatty. Any suggestions? Thanks
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For mashed potato or mashed kalabasa, you can also try combination of margarine-sauteed celery and onion plus grated cheese!
Allan
Re #4. Ah, I’ll try that soon. Need good steak.
Re #5. SOME dishes are fatty. Veggies and fish dishes rarely are.
Re #6. Cheese! Oh, yes.
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Hi Connie,
my first time to write here and just recently found out this pinoycook site, i found ur recipes very interesting, really looks delicious especially the baked creamy chicken and potatoes, will surely try that this weekend, too bad im an office girl and can cook only on weekends for my family. I really love to cook but not adventurous to try new dishes but when i saw ur recipes it’s like i wanna go home and try to cook anything on my mind hehehhe….
By the way we went on fishing yesterday and we have a freshly catch big big tilapia and carpa “the fisherman said it’s carpa coz i dont know the name of the fish…anyway can u suggest some recipe for this? for the tilapia i plan to cook sweet and sour, for the carpa they say its best to cook it only steamed tiop w/ mayo…can u teach me or can u advice some twist on this recipe or can u suggest other recipe for this???
thanks for the help, looking forward for ur reply…thanks mwah!
weng, you can cook the carpa just like any other fish of the same size. i’m not particularly fond of cooking them because we used to have them for pets.