Small Potato Solution

One gripe I've had about cooking in Japan my whole time here is the side of the potatoes. Personally, I really like potatoes, especially baked or mashed. Baking tiny potatoes seems pointless and carving the skin off of every nook and cranny on tiny potatoes for mashing is extremely tedious. 

This led me to abandon mashing potatoes for years until a recent dental surgery made yh necessity for mashed potatoes more prevalent than before. I had run out of squishy foods and my face hurt, so I bought some normal tiny potatoes.

In asking for help from some friends, I was given some advice that might change my potato game forever:

Rinse and boil them. Then peel them by squeezing.

It was so much more satisfying to squeeze the delicious innards out of the potato than twirl the peeler over every single surface.