A Bug's Life

It takes a long time to push four potatoes through a sieve (especially until you switch from a teaspoon to a soup spoon), but it does make the most wonderful miniature potato stalactites!

Yesterday I put a handful of cocoa nibs into a half bottle of vodka. The vodka has gone pleasingly brown already :-)

EDIT:
1. If you are going to push potatoes through a sieve and then add flour, I would recommend sifting the flour before you completely gum up the sieve with mash.
2. I additionally recommend, that if you have washed up your special curved blade for chopping fresh herbs, you place it blade down in the cutlery drainer. If you do not do this, I recommend taking better bloody care when you reach across the drainer, so you don't gouge your finger open. Ouch! There's gonna be a scar (once it stops bleeding). Still, it gets me out of the washing up.
3. We just had a phone call from our dinner guests to see if we wanted to deconflict with Doctor Who or if they should set their VCR :-) Luckily, the starters lend themselves to being eaten from laps while watching telly.