I don't really understand it, but I used to hate sweet potatoes (or so I thought). Even this past summer someone asked me 'why didn't you get the sweet potato fries?! they're so much better than regular fries!' and I simply replied with 'I don't like sweet potato'. I guess i'd never really had them. Oh god. I take after my grandpa. For years and years he would say he hated some sort of food (i.e., pumpkin pie) until my grandma or parents would give it to him and tell him it was something completely different and he'd exclaim 'what is this? it's delicious!' and boom, it'd become his favourite. Well... I guess I'm growing up because I love sweet potatoes!
I recently made a garlic sweet potato mash and it was scrumptious. Last night I was still having my craving for sweet potato from the day before so I went onto yummly and searched 'sweet potato' to see how I wanted to cook them. I found a few intriguing recipes, but the winner was sweet potato skins with bacon . YUM! They were good. The picture shows that there is only half a potato on my plate... I'll admit, after I took a bite I put the second half on my plate. Don't judge me.
I followed the directions pretty much. I took my sweet potato out at 40 minutes and it seemed done enough. It cut in half very easily, but some part on the inside were still not quite cooked so they were a little hard to scrape out. Next time I'll keep it in for 45 minutes. As for my additions, I added garlic and fresh thyme to the potato mixture. Because why not. I also did not have any heavy cream so I just used a little butter and some milk.
Served with: baked chicken (dijon, lemon, thyme, garlic, olive oil, s&p) and broccoli.
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