I boil my peeled, chopped potatoes with a chopped onion. Then I drain the water, add milk and much too much butter and salt. Mash lightly - I like it with little chuncks in it ... I'm weird like that I leave out pepper, because DH likes fine pepper and I like cracked pepper, so we put that on afterwards.

I like my mash straight forward ... but I'm definatly going to try some of these ideas. THANKS!!