Parmesan Smashed Potatoes

6-7 small red potatoes
2 cloves garlic, minced
1/4 teaspoon salt (optional)
2 tbs butter
2 tbs Parmesan cheese (or more, if you're awesome)
Milk (to consistency)

Boil potatoes and garlic together in pot until you can easily skewer a potato with a fork (approximately 20 minutes) (you may cut the potatoes in half prior to boiling if you like).  Strain potatoes.  Keep garlic if you can, but it's not critical.  You can add garlic powder at the end if it's that important to you. 

Return potatoes to (empty) pan.  Smash (ideally with a potato smasher, but your fist works in a pinch if you're angry and can deal with the heat). 

Add butter, milk, salt, and Parmesan cheese.  Smash more.  Smash until the potatoes have bowed to your will and are quivering in a creamy mess at the bottom of the pan.  If there are any hard potato pieces, smash them.

Smash.

SMASH

Serves 2.