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Posted by Troll
- February 01, 2015, 09:07:18 AMAll this talking about food has me wondering...John, you have any special food plans for Shrove Tuesday? Sweet potato pancakes comes to mind...
Posted by Troll
- February 01, 2015, 08:15:32 AMYou definitely need to keep a more open mind to the whole eating experience... My wife is like you, when it comes to that..plain and simple stuff. Me, on the other hand, I will eat anything that doesn't eat me first...which is why I had to go on a weight loss campaign. Spicy octopus is pretty good, and one of my favorites is Habanero spiced Chili....I've lately discovered that I really like hot and sour soup.....and crawfish, and...and...and...
Posted by CDNRatMan
- January 31, 2015, 23:16:45 PMWHAT.......because I don't like SP pie......boy you folks are some touchy about your foods.............I did try other things American
Love Carl Jr.'s.....
Breakfast burritos are awesome.....
not a Popeye's fan.......did like Perkins, was a huge fan of Country Kitchen, so there.........
Posted by greenbarn
- January 31, 2015, 22:45:38 PMQuote from: CDNRatMan on January 31, 2015, 19:50:14 PMAnd you wonder why you have trouble getting people to mail you stuff from the US....Well John, I am with you buddy......
First off I do not like pumpkin pie, well don't like any pie, not my thing. So while living in CO all the Americans I worked with were making a big deal of their mama's sweet potato pie and how good it was. Being a dumb a$$ Canadian I had to ask what a sweet potato pie was.....duh.....1982 this was before the health food craze. So I had a couple of the people bring me a slice of the pie. I ate them and smiled and told them they were good.
They tasted like dirt, and were the worse thing I have ever eaten. I have had SP fries since and they are ok, I have had yams and they are ok......but SP pie I'll just pass on that thanks.
Posted by CDNRatMan
- January 31, 2015, 19:50:14 PM Well John, I am with you buddy......
First off I do not like pumpkin pie, well don't like any pie, not my thing. So while living in CO all the Americans I worked with were making a big deal of their mama's sweet potato pie and how good it was. Being a dumb a$$ Canadian I had to ask what a sweet potato pie was.....duh.....1982 this was before the health food craze. So I had a couple of the people bring me a slice of the pie. I ate them and smiled and told them they were good.
They tasted like dirt, and were the worse thing I have ever eaten. I have had SP fries since and they are ok, I have had yams and they are ok......but SP pie I'll just pass on that thanks.
Posted by Troll
- January 31, 2015, 19:23:23 PMPosted by greenbarn
- January 31, 2015, 10:47:43 AMHmmm... I'm not too sure about that, John. I've never tried them that way. It might be really good, but here again- you're cooking it like a white potato and it's not a white potato so I'm afraid you'll be disappointed...
Posted by John Hopkins
- January 31, 2015, 09:26:53 AMI've just steamed one with some carrots and potato's and will serve it to my son with roast chicken breast and gravy to see if he will eat it..
John.
Posted by greenbarn
- January 31, 2015, 08:30:35 AMJohn, you don't want to give up yet...
First start calling them "yams" ---there is a slight difference between an actual "yam" and an actual "sweet potato", but who cares - they are bot similar in nature (to each other) but like you said - they are not much like a regular potato. Maybe if you think of them as Yams, you won't be expecting a "potato" and maybe will like them better for what they are.
Next- like some others have suggested - try some different recipes.
Troll's in the oven is good - just baked, and add butter - cinnamon and a little brown sugar if you like. Delicious.
Fries: this is how missus GB makes them - cut in strips bout the size of your fingers. Spray or brush on a wee bit of olive oil. 350 in the oven until they are getting a little crispy on the edges - I think this is about 20-30 minutes - might want to stir them up a bit half way through. Add some sea salt when they're done. These are great.
Sweet potato pie- now that's a great thing....
Posted by Troll
- January 30, 2015, 18:31:54 PMMy Grandmother, who was the worst cook in recorded history spoiled my first encounter with sweet potatoes. It took me until 2012 to try them again...now I can't get enough! John, just slit it stem to stern, just through the skin to vent it, stick it in the oven at 350 for about an hour...Some people add cinnamon butter, but I found they are great plain...they will literally fall out of the skin....a wonderful surprise when I found that they didn't have to taste bad.....and the sweet potato fries are GREAT.....My Step daughter brought over a BIG bowl of mashed ones at Thanksgiving...she used a commercial chicken broth as the liquid rather than milk, when the mashed them...outstanding!
Posted by chief
- January 30, 2015, 18:10:47 PMSP fries are pretty good... they just aren't potato-y. You bake them, add butter and they taste pretty good. Boil them, they are sweet. They are sweet and don't remind me much of potato in taste. My wife loves them, me not so much.
You likely got the Kenyan variety, since they have been heavily imported into the UK recently. Before you give up entirely, look online and try a couple of different recipes. In the south we do Sweet Potato pie... reminds me of pumpkin sorta.Posted by John Hopkins
- January 30, 2015, 15:31:01 PMOk, I'm 71 and this week I bought some sweet potato's for the first and last time.
I have to admit this comes under the heading of foreign food as far as I am concerned, I can't really see what it is good for!
It doesn't make a good french fry (chip) it doesn't roast properly, not much good as a mash, in fact however you cook it something tastes and feels wrong about it.. no matter what I do to it I can't make it taste like a spud..Why on earth do they call it a sweet POTATO.
I reckon when they discovered this some foreigner was eating it and the explorer couldn't understand the local name for it, probably Darwin, he had a habit of saying things just to upset people..
John.