edpaffjr.comI hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving. I know I did. We had dinner at some friends’ house who were hosting a group of the misfits (mostly from Cincinnati) for the holiday.
My plate of food on Thanksgiving.
The hosts cooked a bunch of the food, but I volunteered to bring over a couple of dishes to share. I choose to make the sweet potatoes and a green bean casserole. After hearing that someone at the party either was allergic to or didn’t like mushrooms, I decided to try something different for the green bean casserole. I found this recipe and followed the directions exactly. This dish turned out great, but I wasn’t overly impressed with it. Maybe it was just all of the great food that was prepared, but I think it could have had even more flavor. Still a very pleasing alternative to the traditional casserole.
Grandma's Green Bean Casserole.
I settled on this recipe for the sweet potatoes, mostly because it was the highest rated sweet potato dish I could find. Let me say that I would have to agree with the rating on this one, it was delicious, and seemed to be the favorite of many of our group. With that said, I had a few problems with the recipe, which I again tried to follow exactly. It seemed that my sweet potatoes weren’t nearly done enough after only fifteen minutes in boiling water. I removed them from the water at that time and I couldn’t mash them at all. I returned them to boiling water for another ten minutes, and I still had problems mashing. Unfortunately I didn’t realize the problem before I added the sauce to the potatoes. So rather than boiling them anymore, I was forced to put them into the oven to cook.
I baked them for around ten minutes, and finally I was able to start mashing some of the potatoes, though not nearly half as the recipe indicated. Again, I baked them for another ten minutes and finally I was able to get half of the potatoes mashed. I think that cutting the potatoes up into smaller pieces at the start would have helped fix my problem. I had another problem with the last step of adding marshmallows to the top and baking until brown. It seems my dish was a little too liquidy, and the sauce was boiling rapidly in the oven, which quickly disintegrated most of the marshmallows. Rather than trying again, I simply mixed the remaining marshmallows into the dish and watched them melt. Despite these issues, the sweet potatoes were excellent.
In rushing to get the potatoes finished, I forgot to take a photo of them. You will just have to trust me that they looked as delicious as they tasted.
your plate looks delicious. glad you went with a better green bean casserole, i hate the mushroom soup recipe. maybe i can get claire to try it :)