Thanksgiving is this week and although it’s one of the busiest times of the year, it’s also one of my favorites for two reasons. Getting together with my family and the food. In my family, we believe more is more when it comes to Thanksgiving dinner. More to choose from, more to eat and more to enjoy.
Thanksgiving is an all day eating celebration in my family and this means a lot of planning has to happen. The menu, the grocery list, making sure we have everything covered, who’s in charge of what and the assignments. In my family, everyone helps out in some way. And yes, I actually create an excel spreadsheet to keep things organized. Please tell me I’m not the only person who does this?!
Because we always have a pretty hefty spread, I try to be smart about how we cook certain foods; because not everything can go on the stove or in the oven at the same time. See, this is where the spreadsheet helps!
This year, I’m making our mashed potatoes in my new KitchenAid 4-Quart Multi-Cooker. This multi-cooker is amazing. It’s a slow cooker, rice, risotto and soup maker and it can also steam, sear and sauté! It literally is a multi-cooker and the ultimate all-in-one cooking system! There are over 10 settings: risotto, rice, sear, sauté, simmer, soup, yogurt!, boil/steam, slow cooker settings in both high and low, and keep warm settings for up to 24 hours.
The multi-cooker still gives you creamy mashed potatoes but also with a little texture because of the cauliflower, which I love.
So, free up your stove this year and give this slow cooker, multi-cooker mashed potato recipe a try! Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!
And I’m giving ONE away to ONE lucky reader, so enter the giveaway below!!! You won’t have it in time for Thanksgiving, but this multi-cooker will be your best friend and favorite countertop appliance for the winter and upcoming holiday season!
Slow Cooker Mashed Potatoes with Cauliflower + A Giveaway!
Ingredients
- 3 to 4 pounds Russet potatoes peeled and chopped
- ½ small head of cauliflower or about 2 cups chopped
- 1 cup heavy cream
- ½ to 1 cup milk
- 2 garlic cloves minced
- kosher salt and pepper
- 1 stick ½ cup unsalted butter, cubed
- finely diced parsley for garnish
Instructions
- Place the cauliflower and potatoes into your KitchenAid® 4-Quart Multi-Cooker or slow cooker. Pour in the heavy cream, milk, and season with garlic, salt and pepper. Next, sprinkle the butter cubes evenly over the top.
- Cover with the lid and set the Multi-Cooker to the “high” slow cooker setting for about 5 hours. After about 4 hours, remove the lid and, using a potato masher, mash the potatoes and cauliflower chunks. Everything will mash together very easily. Mix, taste and season with more salt and pepper if needed and cover with the lid again.
- When the mashed potatoes are ready, change the setting to “keep warm” until ready to serve. Garnish with a little parsley when the mashed potatoes are in the serving dish. Enjoy and serve with some butter if desired.
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The Giveaway!!
Slow Cooker Mashed Potatoes with Cauliflower + A Giveaway! Open to residents within the United States only
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For Thanksgiving this year, I am making roasted turkey, mashed sweet potatoes, green beans with sliced almonds, sourdough rolls, pumpkin pie, cranberry sauce, and gingerbread blondies.
Yum! These slow cooker mashed potatoes look delicious, Alice! So creamy and fluffy!
I am not really cooking this year, I have some health issues that prevent me from eating anything Thanksgiving. No fun, but what can you do 🙂
I’m also doing slow-cooker mashed potatoes this week! I’m going to cook mine in that boxed chicken stock to see what happens. But now because of you, I’m adding cauliflower. That’s brilliant!
More is more, and I love that on Thanksgiving. Why not, right? It’s the best day!
This year We’re travelling to my sister’s for Thanksgiving, so I won’t be the one cooking dinner, however I am baking the pumpkin pies.
Slow cooker mashed potatoes are my favorite! I’ve never thought to add in cauliflower, though. This sounds just perfect for Thanksgiving, Alice!
This year for thanksgiving I will be making apple and cranberry stuffing, turkey, mac and cheese and pecan pie.
I’m making a Cranberry Apple Crisp and heading to a big potluck. Keeping it easy this year!
I bet KitchenAid makes a great multi-cooker! These sound wonderful. I’ve seen people swap out the potatoes for cauliflower but i don’t think I’ve ever seen a combo recipe before. This is really wonderful!
I would love for these to be on my Thanksgiving table that’s for sure!
I LOVELOVELOVE the idea of adding cauliflower for extra creaminess and some veggie goodness! And you made these in your slow cooker? You are a GENIUS! Pinned!
Turkey, mashed potatoes in the crock pot, green beans, stuffing, all the traditionals…looking forward to a weekend with family and friends.
Oh man, Alice. These mashed potatoes and cauliflower sounds like the perfect holiday side dish. I love that it’s made is a slow cooker. This will save valuable space and time in the kitchen!
I’m only in charge of desserts. I’m making apple pie, pecan pie and mini cherry cheesecakes.
This would be a wonderful addition to our very busy kitchen!
The things I would make with one of these! And adding. Cauliflower for extra creaminess is something we always do! I
I need one of those multi cookers! It definitely make mash potatoe making more tolerable.
I’m hosting 20 this year. And I might even just buy the rolls to save on time! I’m making scolloped potatoes for the holiday, but I love the idea of making mashed potatoes in the slow cooker! Who knew?? Will try this soon!
I am making turkey breast, mashed potatoes s in the slow cooker, yeast rolls, cranberry sauce, and stuffing.
I’m making pork chops and green bean casserole for Thanksgiving! 🙂
The spreadsheet is a genius idea girlfriend! I normally have a calendar time line and LOTS of lists, so I apprechiate your organization! LOVING these slow cooked taters! The addition of cauliflower is stellar! Pinned! P.s that multi-cooker is on my Christmas list! Cheers! <3
Turkey, cranberry fluff, sausage and sage stuffing, apple pie and pumpkin pie is all I have on our list so far. It will grow though.
What a kitchen beast this multi cooker is! With it handling the slow cooking, soup making, steaming, searing and sautéing – it’s like having 2 stoves! And Alice – your mashed potatoes look so fluffy and light – sure to be a hit at your Thanksgiving table! This year we are keeping our turkey day low key – and I am making mac and cheese, Cornish hens, beans and rolls and desserts! Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family!
I typically make a sweet potato pie or some candied nuts.
This will be the first Thanksgiving since my cardiologist worked on my heart and told me I had diabetes and to change my diet. The challenge is to find something good to eat and that you can actually be thankful for and to keep these doctors happy.
I do a bone in turkey breast with sides of mash potatoes and dressing. A requirement is also the round shaped cranberry with the ridge markings on the side.
Haha, more is definitely more in our family too! I hope you have a fabulous holiday this weekend Alice and get some time to relax! This multi cooker must be the most brilliant kitchen tool I’ve seen in a while!
These mashed potatoes look so creamy & delicious! Love that you added cauliflower and made in the slow cooker! Enjoy the holiday weekend and hope you and your family have a wonderful Thanksgiving at your sister’s house! 🙂
Happy Thanksgiving Alice and to your family. My contribution to the holiday is kimchi deviled eggs! Can’t wait to try them. ?
I am making:
Turkey
Mac n’ Cheese (for those who dont eat meat)
Stuffing
Green bean casserole
twice baked sweet potatoes
Cheesy creamed spinach
cranberry sauce
apple and pumpkin pies
I am making apple pie.
We are making a baked turkey this Thanksgiving, Cranberry sauce, mashed potatoes, gravy, and vegetable casserole.
I am making:
herb roasted turkey
mashed potatoes and gravy
cornbread stuffing
green bean casserole
acorn squash
sweet potatoes
deviled egg
pull apart garlic bread
eggplant and zucchini gratin
pumpkin pie parfaits
mini pecan pies
slow cooker the friend of the working Mom- just a little prep and preplanning.
We are going out.
I am making the mac and cheese this year and my mom is making the rest.
I need this Multi-Cooker for general purposes. Love the mashed potatoes- cauliflower blend. Genius!
Ham, Turkey, Mashed Potatoes, Corn, Green Bean Casserole, Stuffing, Sweet Potato Casserole, French Silk Pie, Cornbread too!
Oh it’s going to be so good! We’re making a ham butt with cranberry orange sauce, yukon gold garlic mashed potatoes and gravy, green beans with sweet onions and bacon, cucumber salad, rolls, stuffing, great grandma’s baked beans and homemade pumpkin pie. Drooling over here, just a bit. lol 🙂
I am making the whole thing this year! I am making a small version of Thanksgiving dinner for a few friends who doesn’t have anywhere to go for Thanksgiving. This appliance could really come in handy!
Ooh will have to try this recipe soon. Hadn’t thought about using the slow cooker for it though. Great idea! This Thanksgiving I’m planning to make Alice Medrich’s pumpkin pudding again. It’s basically pumpkin pie without the crust. Which is perfect since the filling is my favorite part! Happy Thanksgiving, Alice!
Corn, mashed potatoes, turkey, green beans – the classics!
Great giveaway, Alice! This machine sounds phenomenal and I’d love to give it a whirl. So, this Thanksgiving, I’m making all the things. Turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce, gravy, green bean casserole, roasted carrots and parsnips, dinner rolls, apple pie, pumpkin pie, and pecan pie. I don’t have a spreadsheet, but I do have a timeline/to-do list that spans over three days and is organized chronologically. So I totally get it!
Turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, pumpkin pie
I want that cooker!! Looks amazing to have everything in one. This cauli-mash looks like the perfect addition to thanksgiving! Have a great Thanksgiving with the family!
A full Thanksgiving dinner, for just the two of us! Turkey, sweet potatoes, mashed potatoes, gravy, stuffing, butternut squash cloverleaf rolls, cranberry sauce, and pumpkin pie. We’ll have leftovers galore. 🙂
im making apple crisp
So creamy and lightened up! LOVE this 🙂
My mother is hosting Thanksgiving this year so I won’t have much. Between us on the net… She can burn water and doesn’t believe in salt. Yay!
I work Thanksgiving Day but we are doing a turkey dinner on Saturday with family.
For the first time in my life, I am going to spend Thanksgiving w/ friends-not family. This will be totally new to me. I am making a wonderful cheesecake that I found online (of all places!). I made a trial run of it a couple of weeks ago. No cracking and great taste… The rest of the meal will be a surprise but time w/ friends will be something for which I am thankful…
Joyce, your thanksgiving sounds like it’s going to be great!!!!
I will be having thanksgiving at my home. 🙂
This looks great. I have to eat low carb (diabetic), but on Thanksgiving I need my potatoes. This will give me lower carb potatoes. Thanks!
These look great! I’m attending two separate dinners as a guest. To one, I’m bring potatoes (maybe I’ll use this recipe). And to the other, I’m bringing a pie. Not sure what kind yet.
I will be joining my family, who is making the main meal and side dishes. But I am in charge of the corn pudding and cheesecake.
ham well warming it up corn pudding mashed potato and sweet candy potatos and then rolls and then apple pecan and coconut pie then some cookies then some gravy i forgot that and thats it i think im not sure and
We’re making pretty traditional dishes this year. We’ll be roasting a turkey. As sides, we’ll have stuffing, mashed potatoes, squash, and cranberry sauce.
I will be celebrating with my family at my daughters house and we all bring a dish, and her family does the turkey and dressing, I will be bringing homemade cranberry sauce and collards
I’m not making anything; we’re going out for dim sum this year. Will miss the Thanksgiving food, but I won’t miss the cooking. Thanks for the giveaway!!!
Those mashes potatoes look perfect. Funny but I have never tried making them in the crock pot. This year I am making the ham, turkey and dressing. My Nana, Mom and other family are making all of the sides and desserts!
This is such a great idea! My biggest problem at Thanksgiving is not having enough stove and oven space. Without fail I tell anyone who will isten that I need a double oven just for that reason. Also I love that you snuck some cauliflower in there!
Right?! Thank you so much, Meghan!! My next “dream” kitchen will have a double oven as well. . I will keep dreaming 😛 have a happy Thanksgiving!
We are not doing anything for Thanksgiving day this year. I have an injured hip and can’t get around.
Just put a batch of cranberry sauce (with walnuts & brandy) in the fridge in early prep for Thursday!
I have a multicooker too and I love it – it takes the hassle out of so many dishes.
We mash cauliflower in to our potatoes too, gives them a bit of a health boost.
I will be making an apple winter salad with lemon poppyseed dressing to bring to our family gathering 🙂
My mom’s doing the cooking, so I’m not cooking anything.
Roast Turkey with gravy, brussels sprouts with butternut squash, cranberries & pecans, stuffing, mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce and onions au gratin.
I’m bringing apple pie!
I’m not making anything for Thanksgiving. I don’t do holidays.
I am making the entire meal for 12, all gluten free
The entire dinner!
I’m making an oreo pumpkin cheesecake, a pumpkin pie, and salad for Thanksgiving.
We are bringing a persimmon and arugula salad with goat cheese and pistachios, topped with pomegranate!
I’m doing my traditional spread – turkey, chicken and cornbread dressing, yam casserole with lots of pecans, and steamed veggies.
I’m heading home to my parents for Thanksgiving, so I’m opting for the lazy (but delicious) route of bringing some Jeni’s ice cream 🙂
Thanksgiving Lunch
Turkey/ Ham/ scalloped potatoes/ grilled asparagus (my son hates green bean casserole ?)/ Mashed sweet potatoes/ corn on the cob/ and we have to have some kimchi on the table for my hubby 😉
We are actually going completely different from the rest of the years and having a vegan Thanksgiving. It’ll be tough but for a couple of our family members it’ll mean the world.
We were in charge of making the mashed potatoes and the pumpkin pie this year. I could’ve used this Kitchen Aid for my potatoes! Love this.
I am having Turkey, sweet potato casserole, mashed potatoes and gravy, olives, cranberries, apple pie, pumpkin walnut bread and green bean casserole.
I’m making mashed potatoes with gravy, and roasted sweet potato!
I made a Turkey myself for the very first time and it came out great. Everyone loved it.
This year I made a green bean casserole but instead of putting it in a casserole dish, I put them inside of baked potatoes. it was such a hit!
I made 2 kinds of cranberry sauce, gluten free stuffing, a gluten free / dairy free pumpkin pie, and sangria to keep me sane haha
We went to my brother’s house so I was only responsible for green beans.
I was in charge of the ham this year, very simple.
I would have to say blackened ham, glazed carrots, peas and chocolate pecan pie
I do a turkey for my kids (we are vegetarian), a rice casserole, three kinds of potatoes, a spinach casserole, and three pies!
I was in charge of appetizers. I made crockpot meatballs and sausages!
I made turkey, twice baked potato casserole, sausage mushroom dressing, rolls and a relish tray.
For Thanksgiving I made a Wild rice stuffing with mushrooms, water chestnuts and dried pears, sliced crispy baked potatoes, mashed cauliflower, green beans with mushrooms and the turkey…
YESSSS!
Now I don’t need to feel as guilty about eating mashed potatoes!!!
We made pork tenderloin, stuffing, mashed potatoes, and green beans. 🙂
I made a spinach and artichoke casserole with a whipped cream cheese topping, salmon with a sour cream dill sauce, and a sweet potato pie.
Prepared a traditional feast for my family of five – turkey, stuffing, cranberry sauce, mashed potatoes, brussels sprouts, gravy, and sweet potato pie. The only flop were the rolls!
We made two turkeys, mash potatoes, rice, pumpkin pie and green bean casserole!