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desperanceToday is a good day, apparently, for confusing Chazzes. Pretty much everyone is at it.
The instance that I bring to you, O internets - redeem me with your wisdom! - is a question of why.
The yogis are coming to dinner tonight, or I assume so, or I hope so, or some such; if not, we'll have a lot of food. But I thought I'd make a cottage-pie variant, with mashed sweet potato (or yam, as we say in these parts); and as I've never mashed sweet potato (or yam), I thought I'd check a few recipes for fear I might miss a trick.
So I did that; and, um. I am confuse. Of the first half-dozen that I looked at, all but one called for adding large amounts of sugar or maple syrup or both. Um, why? Is the root not sweet enough, in all conscience? What on earth is this heavy sugaring about...?
(Me, I am not going to add sugar. I am going to add garlic and butter, and fly it like a flag in the teeth of defiance.)
On the further subject of sweetness, though:
Turtles schmurtles. It are my sunshine.
PS, I are not sweet.
PPS, it are my box too.
The instance that I bring to you, O internets - redeem me with your wisdom! - is a question of why.
The yogis are coming to dinner tonight, or I assume so, or I hope so, or some such; if not, we'll have a lot of food. But I thought I'd make a cottage-pie variant, with mashed sweet potato (or yam, as we say in these parts); and as I've never mashed sweet potato (or yam), I thought I'd check a few recipes for fear I might miss a trick.
So I did that; and, um. I am confuse. Of the first half-dozen that I looked at, all but one called for adding large amounts of sugar or maple syrup or both. Um, why? Is the root not sweet enough, in all conscience? What on earth is this heavy sugaring about...?
(Me, I am not going to add sugar. I am going to add garlic and butter, and fly it like a flag in the teeth of defiance.)
On the further subject of sweetness, though:
Turtles schmurtles. It are my sunshine.
PS, I are not sweet.
PPS, it are my box too.