Roasted sweet potatoes with pesto sauce rub is yummy. Well actually it's a mix of veggies, sweet potatoes just happened to be one of them. Do I have to turn in my southerner card? There are rumors that most of FL isn't really "south" anyways...
I roast my sweet potatoes coated in a slurry of garlic, rosemary, olive oil and salt. So good. I'll have to try pesto sometime.
But the PNW is pretty far from the South, so I think my face is safe.
Post by secretlyevil on Oct 28, 2014 9:33:44 GMT -5
I got assigned sweet potatoes for t-giving. My BIL asked if I would make the kind that came in a can and had marshmallows on top. He's lucky I was holding his kid at the time.
White potatoes and sweet potatoes mashed and then swirled together make a great side dish. Author: Paula Rhodes Recipe type: Side Dish Serves: 4-6 Ingredients
1½ pounds white potatoes, peeled and diced in 2-inch pieces 1½ pound sweet potatoes, peeled and diced in 2-inch pieces 4 Tablespoons butter (divided) ½ + cup warmed milk (divided) Salt Pepper (I use white pepper)
Instructions
Place white potatoes in bottom of saucepan, then sweet potatoes on top. Barely cover potatoes with water. Bring to a boil, then reduce to simmer until potatoes are fork tender but not falling apart. Drain potatoes. Remove sweet potatoes from the pan and place in another bowl. Mash white potatoes your favorite way. I normally use a masher--sometimes a portable mixer. Add 2 tablespoons (or more) butter and â…“ cup (+ more as necessary) milk until desired consistency. Season with salt and pepper to taste. Repeat step two with sweet potatoes. Start with about 2 tablespoons of milk, adding until consistency matches white potatoes. Plop mashed sweet potatoes back into pan with mashed white potatoes and take a couple folds with a spoon to barely mix. Move to serving dish being careful not to mix too much.
WTF... that is hardly any butter. This recipe looks disgusting
I got assigned sweet potatoes for t-giving. My BIL asked if I would make the kind that came in a can and had marshmallows on top. He's lucky I was holding his kid at the time.
I'm not going to lie.... I like real (non-can) sweet potatoes with marshmallows on top.
So, what made her decide to do this? I feel like we need to get to the crux of this ordeal. Like, does she even know what a sweet potato is and how it is glorious? You do not blaspheme Sweet Potatoes with other regular ass potatoes. I need to understand WHY. Just WHY?
I have to ask but where is your SIL from? I have 2 boxes of sweet potatoes sitting in my garage at work right now. I can ship you some if you need for me to.
Her SIL is German.
ETA - summer - Wait tho. Please tell me you don't have another relative that flew in and is doing this foolishness.
I have to ask but where is your SIL from? I have 2 boxes of sweet potatoes sitting in my garage at work right now. I can ship you some if you need for me to.
Her SIL is German.
ETA - summer - Wait tho. Please tell me you don't have another relative that flew in and is doing this foolishness.
I want to know this too! Is this the crunchy one with the daughter???
You need to make black bean strudel and see how this bitch likes it. Yes, I totally just made up black bean strudel but she made up this shit so now we're even.
White potatoes and sweet potatoes mashed and then swirled together make a great side dish. Author: Paula Rhodes Recipe type: Side Dish Serves: 4-6 Ingredients
So, I had to look up "Paula Rhodes" and see what other culinary fuckery she's engaged in.
I got assigned sweet potatoes for t-giving. My BIL asked if I would make the kind that came in a can and had marshmallows on top. He's lucky I was holding his kid at the time.
Did you seem my post about the ILs and canned stuff. Maybe it's a FL thing, but canned sweet potatoes is an abomination.
This is almost as bad as the time my IL was all like, I have to go to the store to get the stuff to make the sweet potatoes.
We go to the store and they proceed to get CANNED sweet potatoes/yams, and then came home to put brown sugar and syrup all over them. Yuck, yuck.
If ever there's a time to have homemade stuff, it's TG. It must be a family thing, another IL does it, and there's is worse, because there is literally a layer of juice/grease over the sweet potatoes.
I have a friend who does this. She also puts cottage cheese instead of ricotta in her lasagna. Never in life will I eat her food, and I mean, never.
People who put cottage cheese in lasagna deserve to go to a special level of hell where all they serve is cafeteria hamburgers with that wavy plastic looking shit sitting on top.
Post by downtoearth on Oct 28, 2014 11:15:57 GMT -5
This is hilarious, but my favorite sweet potato dish is actually mixed with non-sweet potatoes au gratin. It has goat cheese and I think it was a recipe from Food and Wine or Sunset. I haven't ever cooked them together to mash, but maybe I would to try it with the same au gratin flavors?
Disclaimer - Obviously not from the south and I have German roots from about 100 years ago.
Don't let her near the collards!!!! She may not season them properly.
GIRL WHAT YOU HAD SAID!
Prolly outchea trying to just use a dash of salt in pepper in the collards. Errybody know you need a hammock or a smoked turkey neck in that pot.
I made my 1st batch of collards in the crock pot with a ham hock. IT WAS AMAZING. I do not care WHAT the caloric/fat content was. They were like little bites of heaven.
I did follow a recipe, to make sure I didn't eff it up:
This is a southern tragedy! This is why I always have back-up desserts for family functions. Maybe it will taste wonderful...vanilla extract and sugar makes everything better, right?
THERE IS NO VANILLA OR SUGAR IN IT! **weeps** Just salt, butter, and PEPPER.
And she didn't drain them so they are watery.
I'm gonna have to buy new sweet potatoes.
My grandmother is a German born American. She TO THIS DAY cannot make mashed pototoes without making them watery. (wilted) She's 91 y'all. It makes us all weep. She married a man from ALABAMA. I have no clue how he ever ate mashed potatoes she cooked.