Champ (Brúitín)

YOU WILL NEED:

5 lbs potatoes

1 cup milk

1/2 cup butter

8 sprigs of scallions

Garlic

Ground Pepper

PREPARATIONS:

I used red potatoes because I like them better and you don’t need to peel them, the skin is thin enough to use if you want to. I peeled my potatoes and diced them up into roughly 1 inch pieces. Place potatoes into a large pot and fill with water until the potatoes are just covered in water. I am a garlic fiend so I added a heaping spoon (not the wimpy dessert spoon but the big honking one) of minced garlic to let the flavor boil into the potatoes. 

Boil potatoes until they are soft, roughly 15 minutes. Drain water and add milk and butter. Mash potatoes to desired consistency and then stir in diced scallions and pepper to taste.