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For all you Americans, Thanksgiving is coming up, and I thought I'd share my family's quintessential Thanksgiving fare, the pan of sweet potatoes. Yams, if you will. Do I know the difference? Erm... Yams are yellow, I think, and sweet potatoes are orange. Or something. This recipe came from my sweet MIL Lanell, who is a fantastic cook. And these are less of what you'd call a vegetable, and more of a little party in your mouth, as I think the amount of sugar negates all nutritional value. :) But it's Thanksgiving! Who's looking to be healthy?
Persephone's Candied Sweet Potatoes
4-6 large sweet potatoes, cooked whole and cooled
3/4 c. sugar
1/4 c. butter
1/2 tsp salt
8 oz of Dr. Pepper
1 bag mini marshmallows
Cast of Characters:
That's sugar in that blue cannister; and those are the potatoes already boiled, drained and cooled, thus the gunk in the pot. :)
Cook potatoes 25 minutes or til tender. Peel sweet potatoes; if you boil them with their jackets on, the peel comes right off.
Cut into quarters and place in baking dish.
Combine the next four ingredients in a saucepan and bring to a boil. Let it boil for about 10 minutes.
Can we talk about Dr. Pepper for a moment? I cannot stand it. I know, sacrilege. I'm a southerner from Texas who thinks Dr. Pepper is gross. However, in this recipe, you don't taste it, all you taste is the sweet. And man, is this sweet.
Pour over potatoes in baking dish.
Bake in 375F oven for 45 minutes. Baste several times during bake time.
Remove from oven. Just before serving, top with marshmallows (slapping away little blond boys' hands) and put under broiler til just browned.
So pretty!
Yummy! Just so you don't think my family eats two pans of these at a sitting, I took them to a church dinner last night. Every bite... gone.
That's sugar in that blue cannister; and those are the potatoes already boiled, drained and cooled, thus the gunk in the pot. :)
Cook potatoes 25 minutes or til tender. Peel sweet potatoes; if you boil them with their jackets on, the peel comes right off.
Cut into quarters and place in baking dish.
Combine the next four ingredients in a saucepan and bring to a boil. Let it boil for about 10 minutes.
Can we talk about Dr. Pepper for a moment? I cannot stand it. I know, sacrilege. I'm a southerner from Texas who thinks Dr. Pepper is gross. However, in this recipe, you don't taste it, all you taste is the sweet. And man, is this sweet.
Pour over potatoes in baking dish.
Bake in 375F oven for 45 minutes. Baste several times during bake time.
Remove from oven. Just before serving, top with marshmallows (slapping away little blond boys' hands) and put under broiler til just browned.
So pretty!
Yummy! Just so you don't think my family eats two pans of these at a sitting, I took them to a church dinner last night. Every bite... gone.
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However, I *will* eat my peanut butter balls.
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Solidarity, sister.
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I actually just like to hear how much everyone loves them and thinks I'm a most brilliant cook.
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Do. It really is a good dish. Really sweet, but good.
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I'm intrigued by the chunks... I've never braised them in a syrup. That's an approach that I'll have to try.
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Yams and Sweet Potatoes in America are the same species; there are several varieties and colors, but they're all basically the same thing.
The reason they're called yams (generally in the South, or by transplanted Southerners) is because they resemble a root that the slaves used to eat back in Africa. Since it was very nearly the same thing, they just used the same name.
It's amazing what you can learn by watching TV...
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Thanks for the root vegetable lesson. Who says Livejournal is a waste of time?
I think the marshmallowage is the key... without it, they might still be construed as a vegetable.
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In case you're trying to figure out who I am, I play Arthur, Charlie, and Sam Capper over at
Thanks for the root vegetable lesson. Who says Livejournal is a waste of time?
It wasn't me.
Promise.
I think the marshmallowage is the key... without it, they might still be construed as a vegetable.
[looks shiftily around]
They're not really a vegetable -- at least not culinarily and nutritionally speaking. They're a starch. (Like potatoes and corn and cereal grains.)
[is dork]
This is, of course, a yearly point of contention between my mother and her sister, who seems to be alergic to the color green.
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I'm awfully fond of your visual representation of Charlie Weasley, by the by. ;)
Oh, damn. Really? Not a vegetable? I think my kids might be in trouble. Great.
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Yep... I could see the squint, the head tilt, and the whiskey tango foxtrot look from here. :-D
I'm awfully fond of your visual representation of Charlie Weasley, by the by. ;)
:D Thanks! (Though, I get that a lot)
Interestingly enough, he took the longest to pick out. I think I had gotten opinions off of
Oh, damn. Really? Not a vegetable? I think my kids might be in trouble. Great.
[raises eyebrows]
Is there a problem with vegetables at home? [grins evilly]
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I'm a vegetarian, and my kids eat potatoes and carrots, and green beans. That's it. They'll probably die of rickets or scurvy or something horrible. ;)
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Rickets is caused by a deficiency in Vitamin D and Calcium, and scurvy is caused by a deficiency in Vitamin C.
So long as you serve food that have all those things in them, you guys should be fine.
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My SIL eats candied ginger, which i find horrific in every way.
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And if my husband voluntarily lifted a finger in the kitchen, I would die of cardiac arrest. He can't even find the ice pick by himself.