Rae Ann you are the best! Success at dinner tonight with Carsten and Apple Sweet Potatoes!!! I made a huge batch and he liked it (in the picture you can see some clinging to his nose).
I still don't understand the difference between sweet potatoes and yams. I bought sweet potatoes and they were a light yellow and smelled like regular potatoes... anyone out there understand the difference? When you buy sweet potato baby food it is always orange and the cut-up sweet potatoes at Costco were orange--so are they really yams?
Thursday, February 22, 2007
Carsten and Eating...
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yay! i'm so glad he liked them!
so weird about your sweet potatoes... i'll be interested to read everyone's responses because mine are always orange.
Me, too! I got what I thought were sweet potatoes but they were white. However, when they got cooked & added br. sugar, etc, they did taste like the orange ones, but more rough texture & not smooth. So I'd say yams & s.p. are different & I don't know which is which by name. But the white does look like potatoes & the other is more oblong with pointed ends! Make any sense??
Okay, so mine were shaped just like yams, oblong and pointy, wierd ends... Mine also ended up being smooth because I pureed them... but, a yellow/white color. Anyone else???
It is a common mistake to call yams sweet potatoes but they are different. Sweet potatoes are the yellowish white and yams are the orange. A farm tour cleared that up for me one time!
Wendy emailed me this...
Several decades ago when orange flesh sweet potatoes were introduced in the southern United States producers and shippers desired to distinguish them from the more traditional white flesh types. The African word "nyami" referring to the starchy, edible root of the Dioscorea genus of plants was adopted in its English form, "yam". Yams in the U.S. are actually sweet potatoes with relatively moist texture and orange flesh. Although the terms are generally used interchangeably, the U.S. Department of Agriculture requires that the label "yam" always be accompanied by "sweet potato." The following information outlines several differences between sweet potatoes and yams.
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