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The yam, often confused with the sweet potato, knows what it is, even if we don't.
In fact, the true yam, derived from African words njam, nyami, or djambi, meaning "to eat," is the tuber of a tropical vine Discorea batatas and comes from Africa, Asia, Latin American and the Caribbean.
The sweet potato happens to be a totally different vegetable and is a member of the morning glory family and mainly cultivated in South America.
One thing they do have in common is that neither are potatoes at all.
With Thanksgiving rapidly approaching, I thought we’d clear up some misconceptions surrounding them, since one is bound to show up on your table.
Or a table near you.
Of course with them being so different, it's still confusing to tell them apart.
Size is one way to tell, but since you're not likely to see a 150 lb. yam (they can grow big), it's a bit tricky.
Sweet potatoes are orange and purple inside and so are some of the 200 varieties of yams.
Don't think you can tell by mere signs, since they're mismarked in markets all the time.
(Although you are likely to find real yams in international markets.)
But a few clues:
Yams have darker skins, and when you cook them, they're earthier, less mealy and actually sweeter than sweet potatoes.
Generally.
Also high in potassium and vitamins C and B.
They’re also interchangeable in any recipe sweet potatoes are called for.
I’m glad we cleared this up.
So let us know what plans you have for Discorea batatas or dicotyledonous.
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Just wanted to be first today...{{rubbing hands and laughing}}
By the way...don't have any use for yams sweet potato's or whatever you want to call them. I'm a bit of a tuber Luddite I suppose but I don't want to eat anything during the main course that is sweeter than dessert. Not a big fan of pumpkin either...
I have been slicing yams into strips or into yam-chips and frying them gently in seasoned grape seed oil, which is slightly sweet, but not too sweet. I have liked both yams [b]and[/b] sweet potatoes ever since I learned to love vegetables and all vegetable-like substances, although I have to say that one does seem to have to be willing to take a few trades with these two; ideally, I would like to hybridize a yamtato that was not too sweet and not too mealy. Yams are nice and firm, but a little too sweet; sweet potatoes are too soft but have the nicest flavor. Ideally one could combine the two into one tuberous viney vegetable non-potato.
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If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck .... it's a yam.
I love baked sweet potatoes w/ butter & lots of salt & pepper.....................yams sound too sweet.....................& now I officially have nothing..................... have a wonderful day all......................
One cotyledon, two cotyledons, I don't care. I love both yams and sweets, as bebe says, with lots of butter and pepper (not so big on the salt). But keep an eye on that insidious glucose; it can sneak up on you.
I love 'em both and, really sorry, can't tell them apart -- Chef Deb, Ivan ~ help us out here.
I recently purchased my annual sweet potato allotment, two bushel boxes of Beaureguard sweets and two of Haymans (a local white variety).
I'm off for a trip across the Bay for an interview for nursing school.....recipes to follow later this evening.
Wish me luck.
Miss Blue ~ fingers crossed -- good luck!
Miss Blue~ My young and (I thought) innocent niece is in nursing school. Has me on the verge of getting a hernia laughing at her tales of endoscopy and suchlike unpleasant investigations. I don't know what she's learned, but her sense of humour has certainly developed. Good luck - and good on you for even thinking about nursing. It's hard work.
Yam too sweet? I'm going to experiment with a yam and chili pickle. Tons of black pepper and garlic. Maybe it would make a nice dip with cheese & crackers.
Sweet Potato Pie. Candied with Honey Baked Ham. Fried. Baked with brown sugar and cinnamon. Jamaiican style. Can't go wrong either way, Popeye, except with that shrill gal friend of yours. Delbert McClinton on Imus singing Two More Bottles of Wine. Ain't as purty as Emmy Lou but he shore can sang.
I like sweet potatoes or yams, but no one else in the family does, so they will not grace our table. By popular demand, my wife made squash baji a few years ago and it is now a delightful (and spicy) tradition at our Thanksgiving feast. The dish is made with lots of onion and garlic fried until golden, then the turmeric, cumin and garam masala (a sort of curry powder) plus the squash (peeked and cut into pieces) are added and the whole thing is fried and covered with a lid for 20 minutes. Really yummy. I wonder if I couldn't make sweet potato or yam baji some time. That might get the delicious tuber on the table.
Oh, yes! Sweet potato casserole with browned marshmallows on top! In my sweet potatoes (baked in microwave 6-8 minutes, peeled, mashed up in a bowl) I add one beaten egg, 1/2 cup chopped pecans, 1/4 C brown sugar, 3-4 pats butter, mix it all up and bake it 40 min. then put on the marshmallows and stick the dish back under the broiler for about 3 min. til the mallows turn tan !! Yumm!
Best when simple, just bake a sweet potato, slit it open, squeeze it like an Irish potato, add a little cinnamon and butter (some put in a spoon of sugar/white or brown), and have it with your meal. I notice Wendy's now has sweet potato fries, and those are yummy, too. Sooo good, and "good for you!"
Potato- Potahto, Yam - Sweet potato - I don't think most of us care what kind of vegetable it is, or if the two similar spuds are kin or opposite or even a fruit! They do grow underground and kinda look like a potato, thus the name....and they cook up and can be eaten like a potato, so where's the big distinction? Does it matter?
BTW - I've never seen a purple one.....ugh! Purple does not say, "Eat me!" Golden orange and tasty, ok, but not purple.....even eggplant is not purple inside! Oh, a purple-red grape will be ok, but not a hot vegetable, thank you.
There is a TerraChip.com that makes and sells sweet potato chips, too, that are good...about 10 calories per chip....Made in USA by the Hain group, Terra chips Customer Relations, 4600 Sleepytime Drive, Boulder, CO. Try to sub them for the usual potato chip and see if your snackers will go for them. (This group also makes chips of beets, taro, parsnip, red bliss potatoes, and about 8 other veggies!)
Here's the link to see their page and products....
http://www.terrachips.com/
I think their chip production plant is in Melville, NY which says they know whales....anyone been there?
I hate to confess such ignorance, Mr. P, but in the South where I grew up....and am still growing (out)....we used sweet potato and yam interchangably. Somehow, "yam" usually mean"candie" with lots of sugar and syrupy texture, while sweet potato meant all the rest. In our family, sweet potatoes were always served with ham or pork in any form, as well as with fried fish and grits. The sweet potato casserole was usually reserved for a holiday feast with ham or turkey.
Scalloped Sweet Potatoes...layers of gorgeous orange potato slices oozing that unique flavor and butter topped with maple glaze. Always a big hit. One sweet potato, microwaved and eaten completely plain...delicious snack. Baked sweet potatoes with dollop of marmalade added 10 minutes or so before serving. Makes a plain piece of fish into a party. Spicy Sweet Potato and Peanut Soup. White Bean and Sweet Potato Soup.
Sweet Potatoes or Yams? Yes.
Roasted yams/sweet potatoes, don't care which - please, no sugar or marshmellows (despite my sweet southern mother) - some olive oil and rosemary. Could eat them any day of the year.
@ Miss Blue - good luck with your interview!
I am going to pass this year, mainly because I am doing a hominy and tomatillos stuffed pumpkin with a poblano-cucumber salsa (see Vegetarian Times for the recipe). It is yummy. Too monochromatic, I'm afraid.
I'm originally a Brit. That means I never saw a yam or sweet potato until I came over here. And rutabagas we feed to the cattle, along with maize (sweet corn), although that has probably all changed by now because of the influx of so many different ethnicities.
The changes in the grocery stores over the last 50 years have been amazing. Formerly one could not buy fennel, or real mushrooms (only canned slimy baby ones), and no garlic! It's been quite exciting to see all the new varieties on the shelves.
Miss Blue ~ this is for
you.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpS3eFqhxSQ
Love sweet potatoes! We often peel and cut them into wedges along with some peeled and wedged Yukon Gold potatoes, add numerous shakes of "Pleasoning", (a local spice mix), and roast them in 375 degree oven. Baked in the skin then eaten with butter is good too. I stay away from adding extra sweeteners. Not my thing. I'm really hungry now--time to get my oatmeal!
more on the honor rollI'm not sure it's a good thing, being able to buy any kind of vegetable anytime, anyplace anywhere. VeraM's comment reminded me of the days when there was real excitement at the first crop of new potatos, the first strawberries of the season, the first sugar peas. Unlike Vera, I had the good fortune to be raised in East Africa and experienced all manner of strange fruit and veg. Coming to live in the UK in the '60's, I found the available veg unspeakably boring. Thinking back, most people were dirt poor, so there was no call for fancy vegetables. How soon we forget how fortunate we are.
BTW, Vera, when I see a trailer-load of rutabgas dumped by a field gate to feed the cattle, I can't resist helping myself to a couple.
ChefDeb~ Genius! Marmelade. Can't wait to try that one.
Yam or not to yam, that is the question.
Whether 'tis nobler in the gut to suffer
the growls and groans of outrageous hunger
or to select yams from a field of tubers
and by eating end them? To cook, to eat
a meal, and by a meal to say we end
the hunger and the thousand natural pains
our bellies are heir to, 'tis an extirpation
devoutly to be dished.
I know this all sounds pretty damm good
and I might could turn it into an awesome soliloquy.
However, my ghost writer has given up the ghost
and wants a full disclaimer of responsibility for
any modifications to the original.
I have one work -- Skippers
They have THE best sweet potato souffle ever -- comes with brown sugar & pecans. Must be eaten either with mac & cheese or cheese grits
Skippers is in Darien GA
Oops make that "one word"
HAZEL--Marmalade rules, doesn't it!
GALGITO...groan..that sounds so good altho combined with mac&cheese or cheese grits makes me have to lie down thinking about it. This poor Yankee has never had cheese grits (but I could wax poetic about Mac&Cheese for days...)
PAOLOS--I hope you don't get tired of hearing me say how funny you are and what a boring place it can be here sometimes when you don't show up.....
I like yams deep fried in tempura batter and it is fairly easy to do. Peel and slice the yams, soak them in large bowl for about half an hour, then drain. Toss in rice flour seasoned with a little salt and pepper, then take the remaining flour and mix it in equal parts with club soda, add in an egg and mix well. coat the yams in the batter and deep fry (375F) a couple minutes until golden brown on both sides. Drain on paper towels and serve with bulldog gyoza sauce for dipping.
I'm with KYC (how you doing buddy?) on this one: no brown sugar, maple syrup, marshmallows or cinnamon come to that during the savory part of the meal.
It has always been a mystery why already sweet vegetables like squash, carrots, yams and sweet potatoes would be subjected to treatment transforming them into what seems like a lame dessert when they are so good cooked and served simply.
We would prefer squash to mashed potatoes.
Our grandson, as a baby, ate the most beautiful puree of steamed sweet potatoes, kale and roasted nuts. I doubt he would get near it now but I would.
This from a friend:
"Our fiftieth anniversary? Well, the last thing I expected was to have to shoot somebody. Remind me to tell you about it Saturday."
I think I will… after encouraging him to leave the heat in the car.
Miss Blue ~
Good luck to you!
STONEY--I don't serve sweet potatoes on Thanksgiving--we have Butternut Squash and regular good old fashioned cardiac arrest Mashed Potatoes. Pumpkin Pie is of course one of the selections at dessert.
Greetings tribe, just returned from a 5200 mile "drive about" across our beautiful country. The second and most important half with my lovely bride. It was fantastic. Hope everyone is well.
In my travels, I've noticed sweet potato fries are the latest big deal to hand through a car window, at least on the few occassions I did. Intetesting.
The Travelogue of Tommy T- 2005
Yam What I Yam (Or Potato Not)
Popeye
said it I agree
So a
truth I will expound
There's a
treasure not of gold
Buried in
the ground
Most veggies rise up to the sun
you are planted in the deep
Subterranean Mr. Tuber?
Greenery starts to creep
There's more than meets the eye
You have shown me a potato friend
Its what you turn out to be
Not how you might begin
I praise you underground hero
Big fat orangey yam
I mash you add brown sugar
Serve you with my baked ham
There's more to everything than the part
you see and the sweet potato and the yam are prime examples to reflect upon as you savor
their typical cases of mistaken identity.
Stoney~Doin' fine and thanks for asking...Korthal~Yes, let's all celebrate Ivan's birthday.
Aloha Umm- Being a Road Warrior is only enhanced when the beautiful and mysterious woman next to you in the hotel room is your own wife. Yahoo! Indiana Jones needs a fine woman to watch his back. Without mine I would be in a heap o trouble.
MISS BLUE,good luck.
STONEY, please tell that story: Like local newscasters (hmmm 'news' 'CASTERS' bears pondering, at local level. You've just teased us.
Last night I ate a baked (in real oven) sweet potato, loved it as always I do; being alone in that love, I bake just for me. (Someone mentioned microwave, and when time's of the essence it's ok, but not the same result in my micro.)
CAN'T GET THROUGH SWEET POTATO/YAM DAY WITHOUT THIS (IMAGINE THE MELODY):
"You say 'potato,' I say 'potAto.' You say 'tomato,' I say tomAto'"...I waited for someone to sing it, but it falls to me. I have a story -- no, it REALLY happened (not the urban myth) -- to a friend who was auditioning singers for a show. (ATTN TOMMY T) An oh-so-young lovely girl sang it exactly as written. Never having heard it performed, she didn't get it. Perhaps everyone past eighteen could take a course in wonderful-they'll-last-forever-we-still-sing-their-music composers' work and lives. (And for STONEY and me and perhaps others, at least certain arias chosen by STONEY -- and their composers'
stories.) Our STONEY is a Renaissance Man, in my view.
BACK ON TOPIC ...sorry: one thing leads to another where I live and talk.
I'd thought I knew the difference between yams and sweet potatoes, having been early taught 'yams are Yankee sweet potatoes.' Our Genial Host and my Village neighbors today teach me I am wrong. And still confused. What I baked last night I call a sweet potato, but no smidgen of purple is inside...all orangs sweetness, soft, easy on the palate and the tummy.
For a large casserole I use canned sweet potatoes (though I now must pay closer attention to that can: It may read 'Yams.'), whipped in the mixer. Add a tad of butter, of orange an/or pineapple joide (just a tad...to taste), same with brown sugar if chosen. Like many Neighbors, I grew up with marshmallows, nuts, all sorts of things on that dish, but once in my own kitchen, those went with the wind. The simpler the better, and even on holidays I'd be happy with my single baked one. Perhaps an iota of butter. Hmmm.
Glad someone mentions butternut squash, which has yet to move me; surely my fault -- except now Fresh Market carries boxed butternut squash soup (all that cutting's been done!) beside beef broth, chicken broth et al. A fine soup is butternut, with apple joice, a few slices of apple, curry -- for non-curry folk, cinnamon and pinch of allspice. Must be popular, for Fresh Market now offers that soup already made (I prefer mine, as you will yours, for seasoning choices).
I remain ignorant about differences between yams and sweet potatoes: If to be a sweet potato, the fruit must contain purple, I dwell still under a misapprehension. Yet the only time I've seen (a photo of) a gigantic whatever-it's-called is in the newspaper beside a smiling, prize-winning farmer who doesn't recommend eating it.
I count on Neighbors to disabuse me of wrong notions and clarify my muddiness about sweets and yams....
oh, gosh...you know I mean orange or pineapple 'JUICE,' above
IVAN--All wonderful Greetings and Felicitations of the Day to You!!!
Happy Happy Birthday Ivan Dear!
I hope happy days will come to you all year.
If I had one wish then it would be...
A Happy Happy Birthday to you from me!
GEORGIA I love that "you say potato and I say potato" story. Without burly help around to peel and cut butternut squash I simply put the whole thing in the oven and bake it until it is easily poked. Then I let it cool for a while (with such a high water content it is BLAZINGLY hot)and THEN I proceed to do surgery. peeling, seeding all of it is very easy once cooked. Then I proceed with whatever I am going to do with it. And I agree about the oven vs. microwave but in terms of instant gratification, a nuked sweet potato with no seasoning whatsoever can be soooo good sometimes.
Ivan, you are the Sage of the West. Happy Birthday to one of the finest souls in an earth suit! Your amigo Tommy T
Happy, happy, HAPPIEST birthday, Ivan -- wishing you all the good things in life
IVAN ~ Happy Birthday.
Miss Korthal ~ Thank you for the reminder.
I would have thought my laptop would open this morning with IVAN'S BIRTHDAY writ large on the screen. But then I forgot the old computer died and took important stuff to the grave with it. Sorry, Ivan, Happy, Happy Birthday. You are one special guy. Love you to bits.
Happy, happy birthday, dear Ivan!!!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU,
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU,
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, DEAR IVAN!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOOOOOU!
And many moooore!!
Big, special birthday wishes, Ivan, for today, tomorrow and the year ahead.
Now, who can tell me if the sweet potatos are orange and purple what do you call the yellow potato like tuber that was the only type of sweet potato (my father's definition) my father would eat? The orange and purple were YAMS in his vocabulary.
One weary winter I was advised by a garden channel to grow a sweet potato inside to cheer things up. It did that. But then I took it outside, planted it and got a huge crop of sweet potatoes and little fingerlings to plant for the following year. Sweet potatoe, sweet potato. How sweet you are. I usually make them sweeter after baking in the oven when the skins are nice and crisp. I just add butter and brown sugar and that is a meal in itself.
One weary winter I was advised by a garden channel to grow a sweet potato inside to cheer things up. It did that. But then I took it outside, planted it and got a huge crop of sweet potatoes and little fingerlings to plant for the following year. Sweet potatoe, sweet potato. How sweet you are. I usually make them sweeter after baking in the oven when the skins are nice and crisp. I just add butter and brown sugar and that is a meal in itself.
Dash~ the good old tuber, be it sweet or just a simple spud is generous in giving us the planting babies for next year while giving up its harvest of this years crop. I get shivers down my spine when I open up the first trench of potatos. The weather was perfect this year - no rain, so they popped out of the ground and they were good. The sweet varietey I tried are a bit funny shaped, but taste good. I never thought of growing a potato indoors. I'll give it a try.
As far as I can recall, the Africans called any tuber yam. It just meant food.
KORTHAL: HO LEE SOCKS !!!!!!! How the Hell did you remember that ??? I Thank You for the Notice, and it is very Sweet of you ... but by this age, it is just another day ... The Years add up, but birthdays always make me start to wonder what I may have missed akong the way, and can't call a "Do-Over" ... Leaves me with somewhat to do in Meskin Catch-Up over the next fifty-six years ....... Very kind of you to remember .......
MISS ANDY: There are a lot of misnomers surrounding Tubers of all kinds, one of them being that Yams and Sweet Potatoes are the same thing, which is just as silly as the belief that a Sweet Potato is a Potato, at all ... The biggest difference between a Yam and a Sweet Potato, is that the Wild Yam has remarkably high levels of Estrogen in its make-up, which may be good for some people ... but as good as they are, I avoid them because I thoroughly enjoy being Bless'd with a Basso Profundo, and being able to quickly grow a full, coarse Beard for The High Holidays and Pesach ... (I am supposed to have a full Beard year round, but I can't stand facial hair on me ... Too Hot, and too much extra trouble keeping it clean and presentable ...) Naturally, there will be those that argue that any of that is true, and/or that it is just Old Wives' Tales ... but I have known too many people personally who have suffered the insidious results of the lowly Tuber, after years of eating them on a regular basis ... I do love Sweet Potato Pie, but if I eat two pieces a year, its a lot ... I would recommend Yams for Ladies in their fifties and older ....... and the High Levels of beta-Carotene are good for the Hair, Nails, Eyes and Connective Tissues .......
For Dinner today, I made myself a Buttermilk Pie for Dessert ... After Lamb Chops, Spanicopita, and Cheese & Jalapeno Grits, and a rather impressive Almaden Rose' ...
CHEFDEB: I know you have prepared and eaten Polenta ... Grits are the same thing, made from Giant White Corn ... that we usually call, Hominy ....... Good Stuff !!! Sweet or Savory, a most excellent Side Dish, or a Bowlful for Breakfast with Honey, Blackstrap Molasses, Marnalade, or even a Double Dip of Peanut Butter ... but, whether Savory or Sweet, always put lotsa Butter in your Grits ... If Grits are made the evening before, left to sit and cool in a 2inch pan, in the Ice Box ... they can be cut into 2X4 chunks in the morning and fried up in Bacon Drippin's ... then drown'd in Honey or Molasses for Breakfast ... Grits will stick to your Ribs for a Good Half Days' work ... and Grits can stretch a little bit of Meat into a decent meal for a large number of people, especially with enough Catheads to go around, for everybody to have at least two .......
KENTUCKY: I'd like that !!! But I guess I oughtta stop over East to Salyersville and pick up a case of Moon, and then double back to Louisville ... We could always go and wake up Mr. Peterman .......
Sweet Potato is also a clan in the Cherokee Nation.
The thing that is called blue sweet potato by Native South Eastern groups was a staple that became a pig food (something that was viewed as an intentional slight for more reasons than anyone here would probably want to read). Some peoples are seeing it's increasing use as person food as an important step in both tribal heath and good eating but also in the emotional healing of our peoples.
Yumpin' yaminny,
First and foremost..Happy Birth Month friend Ivan.....a day just is not sufficient.
I do like Allison's yamatato idea.....then I might give it a try with a bit of sour cream and butter.
Hats off to the gods and goddesses of the kitchen who make everything edible sound so darned toothsome.
Pot luck night is a must for thesepia....
Pece out
Aaawww, come on kshuck~ I'd love to hear more about blue sweet potatos.
CHEFDEB, I knew I could count on you for aid my sweet-potato-ignorance, and teaching me ABOUT BUTTERNUT SQUASH. A real gift. (Glad you like the story...me, too.)
IVAN, our PETERLAKE says it best: One day isn't sufficient. HAPPYBIRTHMONTH! You are an original!
PeterLake, you knew I would love, and I do, your suggestion of pot luck night on thesepia...anything becomes better than it was on thesepia. Funny -- or maybe not -- I caN STILL SEE oops the first-ever printing of thesepia train, and the wonderful warmth it elicited in us all. Still does, dear PL....
strange happening: I can't skip to anything except TWO lines. Patience, all...well, look at that: It worked this time. The magic of The Eye.
About grits, I've learned people who don't like grits have often eaten them ill-prepared, or -- worse -- instant. Real grits (as IVAN points out, grits is to corn what polenta is to it, just ground differently). Lots of butter and a bit of half-and-half just before you serve them adds creaminess, richness. Cheese grits seems a restaurant favorite, but don't trust them unless where grits are common: Plain grits, if grits you must -- or bacon broken up in grits. (That's really great!)
I grew up loving fried grits, cholesterol in spades but what did my parents know? Fix more than you need; put leftover in flat dish and smooth the grits -- you'll cut it in the morning, when you slice hardened grits (oh, yes, fix leftovers stiffer than you'd eat right then), dip each piece in beaten egg and fry in butter (or your choice oil...I like butter, but...). While cooking, they 'spit' hot grease everywhere, so cover your hands and wear an apron.
Cheese grits are wonderful, cooked at home -- from almost any cookbook. Pick a recipe and follow it. I like a touch of hot pepper in cheesy things, so I add that. Grits is/are a personal dish, so you have pretty much carte blanche. Many "breakfast casserole" cookbook recipes use grits as a base. I read cookbooks as I do novels, and realize not everyoine does, but in so doing you turn up, well, things.
From "I yam what I yam" to grits, with lovely littles along the line. Who wouldn't appreciate The Village? I wonder often how Mr. P thought this would turn out, what path it might take, what sort of people it would attract....
Just wondering if tomorrow will be mandarin oranges and or tangerines? How's about that Abe Simpson having walking bird on Thanksgiving with all the trimmings: cranberries, injun eyes, & to topic...yams stuffed with gunpowder. ....looking forward to a read through of Gypsy tomorrow and I shall be Uncle Jocko...yep everything's coming up roses.
my sentence about thesepia SHOULD be "things are always better on thesepia than they were somewhere else." PL knows, but for new residents I clarify. And apologize.
IVAN JALOPKIN! YOU'RE HAVING A BIRTHDAY AND YOU DIDN'T TELL ME...IF I MISSED IT I WOULD NEVER FORGIVE MYSELF. SO HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEAR IVAN -- YOU'RE A GIFT TO ALL OF US. LOVE YOU, P.
jumpin yiminny. I'm hearing my grandfather's voice...oh no it's just PeterLake up there, punning away as usual. Hi PL, got your long johns out and at the ready?
Stoney: you've completely confused me about whose birthday it is or was or whose anniversary has come and gone, so I'm sure I missed one or the other or both. Please accept my warm wishes for a most happy birthday, and the most delightful anniversary, whichever applies. Warm wishes do not expire so whenever the occasions were or weren't or will be, my thoughts for your (and yours) happiness is there for the taking. Sincerely.
IVAN & GEORGIA_ Grits its gonna be for me tomorrow! Ivan you are right as always that I indeed fix polenta often and in various ways. I LOVE it---and anything the requires butter butter and butter is always all right with me. I am going to get out my Southern Heritage Cookbook and go for it with the Cheese Grits. I am hungry now.
Georgia~ Fresh Market is such a lovely store - we only have Whole Foods out here, which pretends to be Fresh Market but is filled with self-righteous shoppers who are 'eating to save the world' with organic, mystical 'native' foods which turn out to be preprocessed and nutrient lacking sales gimmicks, instead of looking for the most delicious and lovely real foods. The Fresh Market brownie is still one of the most delectable desserts I've ever had - soft and gooey with big chocolate chunks...just perfect.
Ivan! 74 years young leaves you plenty of time to explore the yam and sweetpotatoness of the world. Your insights are always a delight - many felicitations of the day. (I tend to celebrate my birthday for a month, so Happy Birthmonth!)
Yams are dessert to me, even when they're just served up baked like a potato. Their flavor is so wonderful.
I haven't had grits in too long, but I do start every morning with a delightful slice of thick applewood smoked bacon.
Doctor says I can't have caffeine, soda, or red meat for the next little bit, so I might have to invest in yams.
GEORGIA..................your comment about purple food reminded of a friend who once brought me some Peruvian purple potatoes..............I just could NOT get past the purple color....................I have no desire to eat purple potatoes, I can't wrap my head around it..........................
IVAN......................Happy birthday...............may you keep on rockin' in the free world for a very long time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You are a delight and delightful man...............signed, A fan in Mississippi.............................
CHEFD..................City Grocery restaurant does the most incredible shrimp & grits w/ bacon & lots of mushrooms. I'm not a huge grits fan, but that dish is fabulous!
I didn't know yams could be purple. If I cut into a yam and it was purple I would automatically think "rotten" and into the garbage it would go. Sophisticated lady, that's me.
PARK...................sorry, but I'll be sophisticated right along w/ you...............uck............................
Well, time to put my pie yam as on and slither under the duvet. Nos da, dear people x
The cottage was colder than a well digger's witch but we turned on the heat, went into Egg Harbor for a bit of supper, walked the dog and will awaken tomorrow to our fiftieth anniversary.
It is blacker than the inside of your hat but clear and insanely starry and we only need to be back in town by Saturday night for a party thrown by our kids.
I love that woman.
Georgia, Park, ChefDeb, Miss Blue, Bebe.... what a good day.
Happy Birthday Jalopkin!!
bebe and Prk4, me too: 'til I read JP's essay I never heard of purple potatos of ANY ilk, let alone sweet ones. Should I cut into a purple one, I'd think something's rotten in Denmark. A learning day at The Eye -- but when is it not?
on to the club car for Pl's potluck (yep, I'm a fool for alliteration).
And then, 'night, all.
Stoney--congratulations--50 is a real milestone and 50 happy great years is almost staggering these days. It takes two thoughtful, loving and respectful people to attain that--as happily as you have done!
Stoney- insanely starry is such a great image. Staring into the heavens is so Van Gogh insane normal. Happy Five O. At Three O love the inspiration. T
WOW !!!!!!!
You Gentle People are entirely too kind ... My Sincerest Thanks for all your kind Words and Wishes .......
I am really looking forward to the next fifty-six years ... Should be Fun !!! but whatever it is, as long as I can find intelligent conversation in this Village, it will never be boring ... If Peterman Retores, SOMEbody will pick up the Baton .......
Thank You All, Again .......
Blessings,
IVAN
Sushi with my son tonight was the art of food. Talking with my son was the art of communication. Just being with my son is the fine art of living. I truly believe that time is not linear at all but a hazy wavy big old fantastic moment.
STONEY.........................ah, now that is a really nice thought. 50 years. I look forward to celebrating ours someday.........................when you find the one you love you got nothin' to lose...............it's loverly & happy, happy anniversary...........................tell her we think she is one lucky gal......................
MISS BLUE................................................wow, that's so unfair to the other applicants..............they just don't stand a chance....................best of luck to you my dear!
TT..................your dinner & companion................very nice! Homeland is killing me it's so good........................
IVAN - HAPPY BIRTHDAY and many more!
bebe- Mandy is awesome. I trust no one. no way no how. Quantum entertainment.
Also this show Ringer has more twists than a Twizzler. Buffy the Vampire Slayer gone wild.
Oh come on now Petuh dahlin, if it looks like a yam/sweet potato and it tastes like a yam/sweet potato and it's got lots of those cute little marshmallows all ovah it, I'm a-eatin it. Yummy!
TT.......................I have to say that I have never been a Mandy Patinkin fan, but you are correct.....................he is awesomely good...............................
DASH, TO GROW A SWEET POTATO INSIDE, DO YOU BUY ONE AT THE GROCERY STORE, OR MUST IT COME FROM A GARDEN STORE?
georgia, all I did was cut up a piece of a sweet potatoe that I had bought from a grocery store. I made sure it had eyes on it. I think I put it in water until it grew roots and then I put it in soil. I was really too easy. It made a beautiful indoor plant. And I was so suprised when I got so many sweet potatoes from it once I planted it outside. It really thrived. In fact, I think I may try it again. Of course, I live in CA where things grow all year long. So anything is possible here!! Good luck with yours.
Ivan,
May your birthday be all you desire it to be ... and enjoyable, and fulfilling...
Best,
Penny