Walden wrote:When I was a teenager, my great grandfather died digging sweet potatoes.
That's why I let my son dig them.
As a child I did not like sweet potatoes. I later learned that I do like them, if they are plain with butter. I just don't like them sweetened further. As for sweet potato pie... yeah... I can take that, too.
A good number of them have already gone off to my daughter-in-law to become sweet potato pie.
I like 'em with butter and just a hint of freshly-ground nutmeg.
But my favorite thing is to chop up a couple, boil them until most of the water is gone, replace it with half-and-half, add a little salt, and go over it with one of those portable blender thingies until it's sort of thick and fluffy.
Once a serving is in the bowl, I do a spider web design on top with a red pepper sauce (roasted red bell pepper, hot red pepper sauce [Sambal Oelek], and rice wine vinegar). The contrast between the sweet sweet potato (is that redundant?) and the hot & sour pepper sauce is very nice.
Goes well with pork chops and blackeyed peas.
As my wife used to say, "It'll make you swallow your tongue." (That's a good thing.)
