Mashed Potatoes 101

Start of today with a little cooking story:
When i first started cooking our family's lunches, i decided that we'd have mashed potatoes and broccoli. I had a vague idea of how to make mashed potatoes, you have the cut up and boiled potatoes, then you mash them into the paste, putting in milk to make it smoother, well, we have four people in our family and i didn't know that for mashed potatoes you need like more potatoes than just one per person. So i washed and grabbed four potatoes, sliced them up and boiled them. Well, when dinner came around, i mashed them and put soy milk with them. My mom came home and she was like how many potatoes did you cook up? I was like one for each of us, like what we usually have for things like baked potatoes. I learned that day that you need almost double the potatoes for mashed potatoes because it like mashes down to nothing!
Here we go on the recipe.
For three people :
6 medium to small sized potatoes
enough water to cover them
1/2 c. milk plus or minus to fit your wishes..
salt to taste

Wash the potatoes, peel them and then slice them up. Put in enough water to cover them and boil them for 20 - 30 minutes. Make sure they're nice and soft. I sometimes pour off some of the water but it's really up to you. Grab your potato masher and then start mashing. Add soy milk and salt to make it easier to mash. Enjoy with sriachara sauce (or how ever you spell it.. it's a red bottle, green nozzle and with a rooster on it. Very nice hot sauce. :-0)