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And who started calling sweet potatoes "yams" in the first place?

Googled and confused.
But ,Sylvia-if you make anything involving one of these tubers in a muffin form I'll have to get up earlier than SOME other people.
Best,
Maureen

Yam is some southern yankee term for a sweet potato. (I'll bet our Englisher cousins here don't say it.) Especially with brown sugar on (yeh-ech, I say now). But yes, that's what they were called in my gramma's household. Nobody says that anymore, do they?

A real yam is an ugly hairy inedible-looking hunk of root stuff native to the Caribbean-ish. I've never tried to do anything with one of them ... some of that ... and I'm sure it's a rather carbolicious stuff, so I don't need to be doing.

Glad to see the yankeeness counteracted with 5-pin bowling! The only kind. I tried 10-pin in Iowa once, and about blew the women's record for the alley out of the water. If you're reasonably good at 5-pin, a game that takes actual skill, 10-pin is like shooting the proverbial whatsits in a barrel. Fish.

Of course, given cultural imperialism and all, 10-pin is spreading across this land.

MNY -- I did say oven the thing for *a minute*. Needed I add "on a pie plate"?

I'll have to check when I shop for a bunch of on-sale lean burger tomorrow and see whether they're waxing them again for the winter.

http://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/life/botany/yam-info.htm

picture there

I was right:

Yam, the name of a climbing vine and its edible tuberous roots. There are more than 500 species, most of them found in tropical and subtropical regions. Yams are grown in deep, well-drained soil. The tuberous roots weigh up to 30 pounds (14 kg) and are **rich in carbohydrates**. They are eaten boiled, fried, or roasted. They are also ground into flour. Some species are used as livestock feed, others are grown as ornamentals. One species yields a drug that is used in some oral contraceptives. The word "yam" is often used to refer to the sweet potato, a similar but unrelated plant.

Southern Yankee????
Geez, I think OH is still getting over being called a "Yankee" by a waitress in New Orleans.

(Polite reminder to JC that I was born and did a lot of other things in "southern" Canada before that NYer swept me off my rented bowling shoes.)

I knew that about the wax/pie pan.(maybe)

Maureen

but one is the orange fleshed and skinned, and the other is brownish fleshed and skinned .


on this side, the orange is a sweet potato, and the brownish is a yam


I also googled and found this:-

The sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas) is a dicotyledonous plant that belongs to the family Convolvulaceae.

The sweet potato is botanically very distinct from the other vegetable called a yam, which is native to Africa and Asia and belongs to the monocot family Dioscoreaceae. To prevent confusion, the United States Department of Agriculture requires that sweet potatoes labeled as "yams" also be labeled as "sweet potatoes".[1]


that last sentence doesn't help one little bit!



Candied sweet potatoes are a side dish consisting mainly of sweet potatoes prepared with brown sugar, marshmallows, maple syrup, molasses, orange juice, marron glacé, or other sweet ingredients. Often served in America on Thanksgiving, this dish represents traditional American cooking and of that prepared with the indigenous peoples of the Americas when European American settlers first arrived.

I've usually had this with the sweet potatoes mashed, put in a casserole, topped with meringue or marshmallows, and then baked again.

I hate this version!!


we make a candied sweet potato, with slices of sweet potaotes baked in the oven in a liquid consisting of orange juice, a little sugar, cinnamon, and a few dollops of margarine (preferably butter of course, but not when I have to eat it)


In New Zealand, Māori traditionally cook their kūmara in hāngi (earth ovens). Rocks are placed on a fire in a large hole. When the fire dies out, kūmara and other food are wrapped in leaves and placed on the hot rocks, then covered with earth. The kūmara is dug up again several hours later. The resulting food is very soft and tender, as though steamed.

I've had kumara baked in a hangi, and it was delicious!! I tried to copy it here by baking in the oven ........ it wasn't bad!


s
xxx

I have a page from a women's magazine from some years ago framed and used to have it hanging in my kitchen, before I went all open-plan.

It's an ad, likely Kraft, if I recall.

The dish is called Berry Mallow Yam Bake. Sounds like you're familiar with it, Sylvia. ;) I'd never heard of marshmallows and "yams". I can't stand marshmallows at the best of times. The photo that accompanied the recipe about made me gag. I'm not sure how, but it ended up looking like it had weiners in it ...

I still don't understand the desire to tart up a veg with brown sugar. Overdoing it, to me.

Now, who wants my gramma's recipe for puke salad?? Yummmm. I shall try again to find lemon or lime sugarless jelly powder when I'm there tomorrow so I can make one. No.1 keeps assuring me it's one of the many things the close grocery store has decided not to bother stocking any more.

I dont know what you are talking about with all this foreign food.

Oh dear JC Turner thread looks like hard work, glad I did'nt carry on with it

Oh I do hate these check your inbox messages too, some poor bloke is going to have a long lost child turning up on his doorstep without warning lol

ja...x

Bruce Marsh.

Maureen

errrrrrrrrrrrmmmmmmm

pardon Maureen?


I'm lost


not that that is unusual!!



JC .... I am very familiar with versions of that .............. it seems that anyone who grew up or spent significant time in Californai makes that marshamllow thingy.


Our sweet potato casserole comes from the Caribbean, and is not by any means as sweet as it sounds. An it reheats wonderfully!



sylvia

Sorry about that.
Bruce Marsh was the "Kraft" spokes-guy-voice on CBC waaay back. I still salivate when I type the name. He made the crappiest food sound yummy.

Maureen

lol!


that must have been before my time ......... or i didn't listen to the radio at the right time.

Turner ... I've got two separate threads with people arguing about how this marriage couldn't be blah blah or that death couldn't be blah blah. As I've said -- unless you have the certificate you don't know, I don't know, and I'm not arguing about it.

I don't think I ever knew the names of Kraft voice-over-ers!

I did have my Kraft Dinner after that spot of medical poking and prodding the other week. I prefer PC white cheddar, but the 7-11 doesn't carry that of course.

There, how's that for some foreign talk, foreigners? ;)

Gotta go home and have something to eat. Think it will just be spaghetti with sauce from the freezer. This "spag bol" stuff, is it the same as my hippie-days recipe? Burger, onions, mushrooms, celery, carrots for sweet, crushed and diced tomatoes? People here seem to have spag bol as some sort of back-up meal when nothing's been planned, and mine takes me ages of chopping and sautéing and simmering. Maybe it's from a jar ...

I haven't made spag bol for 3 or 4 years ........................ I cook from scratch most times, although I have been known to buy a jar of spaghetti sauce to make it a little easier.


My recipe calls for extra lean ground beef, mushrooms etc, chopped tomatoes, and tomato paste, and various spices and seasonings. A bit of celery if I have it in.

Takes about 30 minutes, in a fry pan so it is in a thinnish layer and can be stirred constantly.


Problem comes if I'm doing it up at the cabin ................. that's at about 3000', and therefore water takes longer to boil


also makes it difficult to make rice. Forget all pre-conceived rules!

light breakfast this morning

Tea, coffee, juices

toast, homemade jams, choice of jellies and marmalade


Lunch

homemade tomato soup
green salad
pate and melba toast


roast lamb, mint sauce, mint jelly, potoatoes (roast, boiled, mashed), asparagus, peas, mashed carrot and parsnip mix, cauliflower, green beans

pumpkin pie
lemon meringue pie
icecream
fresh fruit salad


a selection of Canadian cheeses

Red or white wine, juices, coffee, tea



see you all later!



s
xx

Ive had to read some of these posts twice over to get my head around all these boogas adn such

So, thanks Sylv for breakfast


Gale force winds again but no rain. Winter is just around the corner which also means Christmas........noooooooo

Sainsbury's had all the Christmas stuff out yesterday. It shouldnt be allowed this early

Fans,

I know you can make a roast for 2 - I do it all the time, but you made 2 lots of puddings!!!

"One Apple Crumble and a sweet pastry Blueberry Pie are residing in my oven"

.... Or were they the 'cheaty' bought individual ones (some of which are actually rather nice) - I was imagining my home made Apple Crumble which would feed at least 4 greedy ones! - Add that to your lovely Blueberry Pie and I could imagine you 'feeding the 5,000.'

Hope you both enjoyed the meal anyway, it sounded lovely!

Dea x

Gosh there were a lot of pages posted overnight for me to catch up with!!

REALLY ready for my breakfast now Sylvs - very much appreciated Xx

Glad it was a 'light' breakfast today or I wouldn't have room for that lovely lunch you are cooking.

See you all later

Dea x

Horay...........I have brother fitting a new light in the bedroom. Ive only had it 4 weeks!

Im staying out the way until it's done

Dear Dea.
All home made,I do not buy "ready made"anything except the odd Pizza as all the "ready made"stuff has far to much salt or sugar in for me and I can taste it all the time I am eating it.
Why do they do that?Add so much salt or sugar I mean,if I want salt on my food,which I dont,I can add it myself from the salt cellar and the same with sugar,but from the sugar jar

I made too much crumble topping ,so added water to the leftover bit and made the blueberry pie with it ,thats how it got to be sweet pastry..
It was delisheers.

True about the Apple crumble though,did come up bigger than planned ,so having it today.
Blueberry pie all gone as only enough for one and a half,you seen the price of Blueberries in the shops??

Nice to see Maureen NY back,havent seen you for ages girl ,wheres been?

Send that bloke round here please Gins,my sparky still wont do anything since the heart attack and I keep telling him he needs to do my last 2 storage heaters for the exercise..!

I LOVE yam,plantain,sweet potato and most things carribean(cept bread fruit) but getting anything except sweet spuds here in the wilds of Wales is impossible,they look at you blankly if you ask in even the larger supermarkets..

Nice to see that you do 'proper' cooking Fans - SSooo much nicer, I agree (and much better for you) !!

Talking about 'large puddings', you have just reminded me of a 'Danish Apple Pie' which I used to cook - many years ago, it was REALLY delicious but was HUGE !!! - We were always eating it for days afterwards.

Must go and see if I can dig out the recipe (I do hope I still have it somewhere.

Dea x