Sweet potatoes/yams have always been my favorite and something I look forward to at Thanksgiving along with the turkey and dressing. For some reason, we seldom indulge at other times of the year probably because we don't like the canned version as much and the 'fresh' are not all that fresh and very expensive.
Perhaps, we are just getting over, finally, our older son's first adventures into solid food when he was a baby. He was born with an attitude and an extreme sense of independence. We always had the feeling that the only reason he let us hold him was because he hadn't figured out walking yet. Well, we hit the eight or nine-month mark and he wants more than rice cereal. We purchase a variety of the jarred food and happily gave him his first sample. He forcefully spit it out. After about six tries, with six different fruits and vegetables, he accepted tiny spoonfuls of sweet potatoes. Although we eventually got him to sample other items, he would fill up on the sweet potatoes . . . until we noticed he was starting to look a bit 'sun tanned' . . . from the sweet potatoes. We continued to have adventures with his eating until the day he went off to college! Now, he lives in a foreign country and thinks nothing of trying odd items.
Anyway, only three of us are at home now and, happily, we all love sweet potatoes. The warehouse store has been selling them in boxes and we have been thinking of ways to have them a couple of times a week. It is almost a feeling of guilt that something so good for you could also taste so excellent.
We have had sweet potatoe fries, baked sweet potatoes, mashed sweet potatoes, and are experimenting in having sweet potatoes braised in with the pot roast for dinner this evening. So far, we haven't turned 'sun tanned' so we aren't overdoing it . . . yet!
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