Now I wish I had something sweet. Pie is gone and I didn't get any sweet potato leftovers, alas.
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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
-t - Nov 29, 2009 4:36:45 pm PST #21916 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Burrell - Nov 29, 2009 4:47:49 pm PST #21917 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
I love sweet potatoes just baked, with butter and brown sugar on top. Also love sweet potato pie. I HATE the traditional sweet potato casserole. Too sweet.
I have a question. I always forget, what's the difference between sweet potatoes and yams? Are yams the orange ones and sweet potatoes the yellow ones? Or is it the other way around?
-t - Nov 29, 2009 4:51:16 pm PST #21918 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
They're all sweet potatoes but for some reason we call the orange-fleshed ones yams. Even though there are actual yams that are different.
My sweet potato casserole is with orange juice and brown sugar. I haven't had the kind with marshmallows, but I don't think I would like it.
sarameg - Nov 29, 2009 4:51:39 pm PST #21919 of 30001
Neither!
Burrell - Nov 29, 2009 4:53:48 pm PST #21920 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
They're all sweet potatoes but for some reason we call the orange-fleshed ones yams.
Thanks `t, I just googled the same myself. That fits with my childhood recollection. Of course now I'm having a hard time finding a photo of an actual yam. Also I know one of the two has more nutritional value, but I can't recall which one.
Trudy Booth - Nov 29, 2009 4:53:57 pm PST #21921 of 30001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
The soft orange ones are sold as 'yams' even though, of course, they aren't.
§ ita § - Nov 29, 2009 4:54:10 pm PST #21922 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Sweet potato pudding is orange here, isn't it?
Trudy Booth - Nov 29, 2009 4:54:40 pm PST #21923 of 30001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Actual factual yams! [link]
Sue - Nov 29, 2009 4:54:41 pm PST #21924 of 30001
hip deep in pie
I have a food question: what's the norm in butter where you are: salted or unsalted? We were discussing how hard it is to find unsalted butter around here. My local supermarket is HUGE, and it still only stocks one type of unsalted butter and only in half-pound blocks. There's even local dairies that make extra-salted butter, so I kind of wondered if it was a regional thing for salted butter to be so much more popular.
Jesse - Nov 29, 2009 4:56:10 pm PST #21925 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Salted is the norm.
I like sweet potatoes just roasted or baked like white potatoes -- with butter and salt.