Restaurant food tastes good because we make it the unhealthy way, and we have commercial grade burners. To quote Beavis and/ or Butthead: "FIRE! hu hu YEAH! FIRE!"

That's why high end star restaurants serve smaller portions. 1) cuz it's usually a lot of ingredients but also 2) there's a psychological aspect where you appreciate the food more because there's less of it.

That's why it's Michelin Star lol. I just mash everything into the pot it's cooking out of. I personally like having some chunks of potato.

Then you need to clean the blender.

Just mash with a potato masher or a huge fork for a couple min. Cleanup is: toss masher/fork into dishwasher.

Cream cheese is good, but you need something liquid to thin it out... like milk.

the good kind 😄

I usually put neutral grated cheese, it doesn't add a lot of flavour but it adds texture