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orangeclouds115 in vegancooking

Vegan Sweet Potatoes

Mar 02, 2006 03:44

I am mega-guilty of eating traditional holiday foods year-round. I'm not sure why we don't do that anyway... as a kid I had to wait all year to eat these sweet potatoes, but now as an adult big kid I make them whenever the heck I get a craving ( Read more... )

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vgnwtch March 2 2006, 11:42:48 UTC

I've been here 11 years and no-one's mentioned marshmallows in conjunction with sweet potatoes, so I'm astonished. Why would anyone put marshmallow with sweet potato? WHY, for the love of all that is pure and good - WHY??!

theoriginal7 March 2 2006, 12:54:56 UTC

I know I was thinking the same thing. My gag reflex flared up when I read that nasty combination. :-P

orangeclouds115 March 2 2006, 14:49:04 UTC

Really? I grew up eating this one. Maybe 7 years ago my family had Thanksgiving at a family friend's house and they gave us this crap with marshmallows. Then we started going to visit family in AZ for Thanksgiving and they had it too. My mom says everyone has it, except for us. Glad that's not the case!

blueheron March 2 2006, 14:57:58 UTC

Seriously!

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profwidow March 2 2006, 13:34:57 UTC

I don't get the marchmellow thing either. I grew up eating "sweet potato pudding" which was basically sweet potatoes that had been mashed to death with a beater and mixed with loads of butter, brown sugar, and the typical spices (nutmeg, cinnamon, a little clove and maybe a little allspice). Oh man, it was not good for you, but it sure is tasty stuff!

lizzymommy March 2 2006, 15:20:32 UTC

my aunt makes that, but calls it sweet potato souffle - which it obviously is not a souffle, but myohmy is it ever the tastiest thing in the world! :) I could eat it for dessert any day!

This year, I was in charge of the holiday dinner, and made these little sweet potato "puffs". They didn't really puff, but they were all gingery, and orangey, and topped with crushed pecans. Super yummy.

profwidow March 2 2006, 15:33:58 UTC

Now I am totally hungry for sweet potatoes!

lizzymommy March 2 2006, 15:56:32 UTC

See, that was exactly my thought, so I wandered over to the pantry only to discover that my sweet potatoes had tried to go forth and prosper and were deaddeaddead. So SAD ! ! !

saucypunk March 2 2006, 19:36:46 UTC

I hear you on holiday foods year-round! I buy a ton of cranberries at thanksgiving and freeze them so I can make cranberry sauce whenever i have a craving - which is often :-)

give this sweet potato recipe a try as well! the potato-pear-cranberry-pecan combination is really amazing. (i subbed canola oil for the butter with no problem.)

constant_noise March 5 2006, 16:07:30 UTC

i used to looooooove the marshmellows, esp the kosher ones with coconut on teh outside my mom started using when i became a vegetarian when i was 9. i think its a southern thing, and my dad is from LA