Potato-and-Blue Cheese Pastries

Ingredients

• 5 ounces cheese blue crumbled
• 0.3 cup butter softened
• 2  garlic cloves minced
• 1 small onion chopped
• 0.5 teaspoon pepper freshly ground
• 22 ounce potatoes frozen mashed
• 17.3 ounce puff pastry sheets frozen thawed
• 0.5 teaspoon salt 
• 1 tablespoon vegetable oil 

Equipment

• frying pan
• baking sheet
• oven
• aluminum foil
• serrated knife

Directions

1. Prepare mashed potatoes according to package directions. Stir in blue cheese and next 3 ingredients.
2. Saut onion in hot oil in a small nonstick skillet over medium-high heat 10 minutes or until tender.
3. Add minced garlic, and saut 2 minutes; stir into potato mixture.
4. Unfold 1 pastry sheet on a lightly floured surface; roll out to an 11- x 11-inch square.
5. Spread half of potato mixture evenly over pastry sheet, leaving a 1-inch border.
6. Roll up, jellyroll fashion, forming a log. Repeat procedure with remaining pastry sheet and potato mixture.
7. Cut each log into 11 (1-inch-thick) slices with a serrated knife; place slices on a lightly greased aluminum foil-lined baking sheet.
8. Bake at 400 for 30 minutes or until golden brown.
9. Serve warm.