Alice says, "Sweet potatoes and yams are virtually interchangeable in the kitchen." I agree. First I put a yam next to the refrigerator and a sweet potato by the sink. Then I put the sweet potato next to the refrigerator and the yam by the sink. Yup, virtually interchangeable.
Randy showed up in the kitchen at just the right moment and helped me make Moroccan sweet potato salad from a yam. This is one of those recipes that sounds a little weird, but is just excellent, excellent, excellent. And very easy to make. We'll be seeing this one a lot on our table. It will be perfect to take to pot-lucks. I love the citrus-ginger tang of the marinade which nicely soaks into the yam pieces. And it's pretty. I just added some pan-fried chicken with herb butter to the plates for dinner tonight.
Otherwise, while the weather was cold and windy but dry today, I dashed out for major grocery shopping: PetSmart, Costco, Food 4 Less and Trader Joe's. And you know how I'm feeling about shopping these days.... The up side is that I have this terrific 5 pound hunk of lamb leg from Costco. Stew! Lamb stew! With prunes and shallots and almonds. And I have parsnips and carrots for oven roasting. And raspberries and cream.
By the way, Nicky's little paw is just fine. I think he's mostly just a big whuss. Sweet and adorable and a big whuss.
56 recipes made; 249 still in the planning stages
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