Happy Thanksgiving: Sweet Potato BANE
This Thanksgiving was epic. All four brothers of Nate's house, their four SO's, my family (brother, parents), other brother's SO's mom, Nate's parents, some other people who then canceled. A party of 15. We decided to bring cranberries and a vegetable. Then on Tuesday, after the ingredients were purchased, our farm box comes: 3 pounds of potatoes, 3 pounds of sweet potatoes, celery, green beans, herb bunches, onions, and all of the grapefruits. We had about a pound of sweet potatoes left over from the previous box. Someone ELSE is bringing sweet potatoes to Thanksgiving, and they already have 10 pounds. So. What do two people do with >4 pounds of sweet potatoes?
Roast some, eat them with butter and brown sugar. Then, curried sweet potatoes (good). Next, sweet potato biscuits! YUUUUUUUUUM. It's just like buttermilk biscuits, but replace buttermilk with purreed sweet potato! So. Tasty! Then with the rest, make sweet potato gnocchi! YUUUUUUM. I made a nut sauce with walnuts that came out more like a stuffing, and it was amazing.
I <3 Mark Bittman's How to Make Everything cookbook. I would never have come up with more than one thing to do with sweet potatoes, and now I've had them four ways and have some ideas to spare if we (god forbid) get more in the next farm box.
On a non-food related note, I have really been crocheting up a storm lately. A work friend started crocheting, and she came over for a crochet together afternoon a while ago. She ended up teaching me how to read patterns, basically. We both made cute little whales, and thus started my recent kick. Since then, I've completed an adult hat, two pairs of baby booties, two infant hats, one child hat, and I've started the same cardigan twice, and started a second one. It's pretty exciting to do this, since I'd been slogging along with stuff I was making up as I went. Which was fun, but not always very satisfying.
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Roast some, eat them with butter and brown sugar. Then, curried sweet potatoes (good). Next, sweet potato biscuits! YUUUUUUUUUM. It's just like buttermilk biscuits, but replace buttermilk with purreed sweet potato! So. Tasty! Then with the rest, make sweet potato gnocchi! YUUUUUUM. I made a nut sauce with walnuts that came out more like a stuffing, and it was amazing.
I <3 Mark Bittman's How to Make Everything cookbook. I would never have come up with more than one thing to do with sweet potatoes, and now I've had them four ways and have some ideas to spare if we (god forbid) get more in the next farm box.
On a non-food related note, I have really been crocheting up a storm lately. A work friend started crocheting, and she came over for a crochet together afternoon a while ago. She ended up teaching me how to read patterns, basically. We both made cute little whales, and thus started my recent kick. Since then, I've completed an adult hat, two pairs of baby booties, two infant hats, one child hat, and I've started the same cardigan twice, and started a second one. It's pretty exciting to do this, since I'd been slogging along with stuff I was making up as I went. Which was fun, but not always very satisfying.
( http://www.flickr.com/photos/ssmegss/sets/72157628073135377/with/6373051809/ )