Friday, October 22, 2010

Citrus sweet potato mash

Liz and I were watching Rachel Ray on Monday and she was making a very fun and unique sweet potato dish that I had to try. Unfortunately, it didn't turn out for us as well as it did for Rachel. If I make some adjustments in the future, I'm sure it will be great.

The idea was as simple as could be. Cook some sweet potatoes, add lemon zest and the juice of one lemon, add some honey and salt and mash it together. In fact, it was so simple, it took less time to make than traditional sweet potato mash with all of the milk and/or cream. However, I only used two sweet potatoes with one lemon and that was way too much citrus for our taste.

Lucky for me, the rack of ribs was done to perfection and melted off the bone and our steamed vegetables still had some crunch (I often over-steam them and they become too soft), so we still had some great food. I need to look at the Rachel Ray website so I have the right potato-to-citrus ratio. I know it will be wonderful if I get the ingredients right because even though the lemon took over this time, there was a hint of greatness with the honey.

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