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Mashed potatoes with a small scoop of butter in the middle with parsley sprinkled on top all in a white Polish potter bowl with scallops, blue trim at the top, and dark blue polkadots throughout the bowl. On the left side of the bowl is a cloth yellow napkin scrunched up.

Instant Pot Mashed Potatoes

A partial picture of a scalloped edge, white Polish pottery with a blue line below the top edge and blue dots throughout; filled with Yukon mashed potatoes sprinkled with parsley and a small well of buttery on the top in the middle.

Buttermilk Mashed Potatoes

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