I love cooking with blue cheese. It goes so well with bacon! This Thanksgiving, mix things up with an updated mashed potato recipe. These Blue Cheese & Bacon Mashed Potatoes have all the creaminess you love with the savory taste of blue cheese and bacon.
What are some of your family’s Thanksgiving traditions? For my family, it’s a day long event! We have the traditional dinner of turkey, mashed potatoes, stuffing, cranberry sauce and more followed by lots and lots of pie. After that, we go for a bike ride to burn off all that food. At night, we eat leftovers, have a bonfire, and play games.
Thanksgiving is all about enjoying delicious food surrounded by family. That’s my kind of holiday! For this recipe, I wanted to take a traditional dish and give it a more modern twist. Bacon makes everything better, right?
Blue Cheese & Bacon Mashed Potatoes
Ingredients
- 4 large russet potatoes
- 1/4 cup of butter
- 1/2 cup milk
- 1 cup sour cream
- 1 5 oz package of blue cheese crumbles
- Salt and Pepper to taste
- 4 strips of bacon, fried and chopped into small pieces
Instructions
- Peel and dice the potatoes. Place in a pot and fill with water to about an inch above the potatoes. Sprinkle with salt and bring to a boil.
- Reduce heat, simmer for 15-20 minutes or until potatoes are tender. Drain.
- Add butter, milk, sour cream and about 1/2 of the blue cheese to the potatoes. Mash until creamy. Season with salt and pepper to taste.
- Sprinkle the bacon into the mashed potatoes and mix until the pieces are spread throughout.
- Sprinkle with blue cheese, mix gently, and serve immediately.
Thanksgiving is all about family, friends and delicious food. Luckily, the food blogging community is all about these things as well. To celebrate the holiday, Meghan from Cake ‘n’ Knife and Susannah from Feast + West are hosting Blogsgiving Dinner. There are 20 awesome blogs sharing 52 recipes
The idea is based on the old-fashioned progressive dinner party, in which you’d eat each course at a different guest’s home. Each blogger is bringing one or more dishes to the party on Monday, Wednesday and Friday of this week, so be sure to stop by each one and get some ideas for your own Thanksgiving meal. Be sure to check out today’s recipes for entrees, salads and side dishes.
We’ll be posting to social media with the hashtag #blogsgivingdinner. Hope you can join us!
Here’s the full menu for today!
Salads
Pomegranate & Goat Cheese Salad from Feast + West
Persimmon & Pear Salad from Wit Wisdom and Food
Roasted Butternut Squash & Gorgonzola Salad from Hello Little Home
Entrees
The Perfect Thanksgiving Turkey from My Cooking Spot
Roasted Turducken from The Speckled Palate
Beer Brined Turkey with Bacon Gravy from Cake ‘n’ Knife
Herb Crusted Pork Tenderloin with Orange-Cranberry Reduction from Home at Six
Smoked Mushroom Steaks with Herbed Bread Crumbs (Vegan) from Betty Becca
Side Dish
Turkey, Apple & Sweet Potato Pot Pies from Love & Flour
Creamy Pumpkin Apple Pasta from My Cooking Spot
Mushroom Spinach Farro from Think Fruitful
Bacon and Cornbread Stuffing from Chez CateyLou
Sweet Potato Crunch from I Cook. I Eat. It’s Life.
Blue Cheese & Bacon Mashed Potatoes from A Savory Feast
Sausage Stuffing from the Wetherills Say I Do
Butternut Squash Grits from Homespun Seasonal Living
Wine
Thanksgiving Wine Pairings from Twin Stripe
What are some of your favorite Thanksgiving recipes?
Katie says
I’m totally not a huge mashed potato fan, but these sound AMAZING. I cannot resist blue cheese and bacon. I’ll have to make these for my hubby and I soon! Yum.
Jenna Brussee says
The bacon and blue cheese really make the dish! You will love it.
Sarah @ 12 Twenty Seven says
Ugh, I wish I liked blue cheese because I love bacon and potatoes together! Is the blue cheese really powerful, Jenna? If not, I might give it a go!
Jenna Brussee says
You might like it! It’s not overwhelming. If you can’t do it, try another type of cheese or just do the bacon.
Meghan B. says
Now you are a woman after my own heart – add blue cheese and bacon to almost anything and I am a happy girl. This has to go on my Thanksgiving menu!
Jenna Brussee says
Oh yes! Blue cheese and bacon are some of my favorite ingredients. I love making stuffed burgers with them, too. Mmm!
Becca says
Blue cheese and bacon!?! Double whammy of delicious!
Jenna Brussee says
They are so good together! Especially mixed into the creamy potatoes.
Reginia Cordell says
Mashed potatoes are one of my favorite comfort foods. Adding bacon to the mix is just the icing on the cake.
Jenna Brussee says
Me too! Bacon just makes it even better.
Daisy @ Simplicity Relished says
YUM YUM YUM I love blue cheese! What a good idea, I might just have to add this to our menu 🙂
Jenna Brussee says
You should! Let me know what you think if you try it.
Jill Hardt says
Great idea with the blue cheese! I would def gobble this right up. Love that your Thanksgiving tradition includes a bike ride! so cute and helps undo just a little bit of the feast damage.
Jenna Brussee says
The blue cheese is so good with the creamy mashed potatoes. Our bike ride is a lot of fun! It definitely helps me not feel so guilty about stuffing myself with food.
Anna @ The Beauty Section says
How did you know mashed potatoes were one of my favorite comfort foods? Blogsigiving dinner is such a cute and clever idea!! I love it!! 🙂
Jenna Brussee says
You will love this version! If you ever come to Florida I will make you some mashed potatoes 🙂 I’m having a lot of fun with Blogsgiving Dinner. I’m excited to be able to collaborate with food bloggers.
Susannah Brinkley says
You really know how to take mashed potatoes to the next level, don’t you? These sound just incredible and I cannot wait to add some blue cheese and bacon to my mashed potatoes this winter. Thanks for the great idea.
Jenna Brussee says
Oh yes! These are too good. Let me know what you think if you try it!
Erin says
I love how you’ve taken a traditional dish and made it more modern. I’m intrigued by these potatoes, that’s for sure, and I have no doubt my family would LOVE them!
One of our traditions for Thanksgiving is eating around 1-2 p.m. and after the meal, we’ll all go on a long walk, then watch football and generally take it easy and relax until it’s time to eat again. (Because, obviously, you’ve gotta eat more than once!)
Jenna Brussee says
You should try them! The blue cheese adds a great flavor.
That is a great tradition! I love how we both do something to burn off our feast. My family always eats again, too. We usually make sandwiches with the leftover turkey.
Erin says
Oh, I can imagine it does!
Burning off the feast is integral… and a lot of fun! And who doesn’t love a good turkey sandwich that evening?
LeAndra says
I pretty much just want to say what everyone has already said, which is that these are amazing, I want to eat them now, and so on and so forth. Delicious!
Jenna Brussee says
Hahaha yes! Go make some tonight!
Rachel G says
Now those are definitely a few notches above one’s ordinary mashed potatoes!
Jenna Brussee says
I always have to improve on classic recipes! Blue cheese and bacon make everything better.
Miz Helen says
What a great collection of recipes. Hope you are having a great day and thanks so much for sharing this awesome post with Full Plate Thursday.
Come Back Soon!
Miz Helen
Jenna Brussee says
Thank you Miz Helen! Have a great week.