Special Ed Chef

So it's official I suck at cooking. Katie my sister-in-law gave me a meatball recipe and garlic mashed potatoes. K meatballs piece of cake, potatoes- I'm used to instant in a box. So Katie acts like I know how to cook and puts very little detail on the recipe. The recipe reads about 4 garlic cloves to add to the boiling water so I go to the store and buy 4 bulbs of garlic. I throw those babies in with the potatoes to cook and thought nothing of it. My other sister-in-law happened to come over and about died when she saw what I was doing. For all of you who don't cook let me give you some advice. You are supposed to peel skin off of these things like an onion and in 1 bulb there's at least 10 cloves. So do the math I was putting in 4 bulbs! My potatoes would have been so garlicky and gross. The funny thing was I had no idea and I even wasn't sure if i was supposed to take them out after boiling and mash them in the potatoes. That would of been funny! I didn't feel so bad until I told some friends at work and they all knew, so that made me realize I better start watching Rachel Ray.