Any time I'm at a family cookout or something, I like to make the mashed potatoes. It's simple, but I guess no one up where I live has had them this way and I'm requested to make it a fair bit. You need a 5 lb bag of new red potatoes, a stick of butter or margarine, milk, and an electric mixer.
Wash the potatoes but leave the skin on them. I guess you can peel them if you don't like the texture of skin on mashed potatoes, but I leave them on. Boil the potatoes until done and easy to cut with next to no effort, drain the water as much as you can. Cut the potatoes into smaller pieces, but don't need to fully mash them yet. Put them back onto high heat and cook out most of the water (cutting them helps this process), stirring constantly to prevent burning and remove from heat when done. Add the stick of butter and a little milk and blend on low with the mixer. As they are whipped, add more milk, a little at a time, until desired consistancy. You can also add in other condements like cheese, bacon pieces, sour cream, etc during whipping if you'd like.