Assail The Unassailable: Sweet Potato Pie

chocolate pecan pie

When I head down south next month this will be one of my first goals. Cozy Corner, Memphis, here I come!

My wife hassles me because I prefer pumpkin over sweet potato. How to shot wife?

Burroughs did it with a gun and an apple.

Warning: mini-mallows that are more than a decade old do not toast well under the broiler and have a tendency to flare up.

I can assail this pretty easily: it contains sweet potatoes.

(There are pretty much only two foodstuffs in life I just flat-out hate: olives and sweet vegetables. Beets, sweet potatoes, squashes and whatnot. Although I did have a butternut squash soup the other day that I did not entirely mind.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jooJca4sXyY

i hate people who hate olives

on the other hand i don't really like mashed or baked sweet potatoes, but i don't mind it when combined with more ingredients

Dog + sweet potatoes = comedy gold

Sweet potatoes are only bad if you mess with them too much.

I don't like sweet potatoes!

Although I did have a butternut squash soup the other day that I did not entirely mind

i make a great butternut soup that comes out totally savory without the slightest hint of sweetness. i think i'm going to make it now.

I thought I was the only person who hated olives.

i hate them too! let's start a club.

sweet potato OTOH = golden

i had a great butternut squash risotto last week!

Dog + sweet potatoes = comedy gold

-- Abbott, Wednesday, November 21, 2007 11:23 AM (Wednesday, November 21, 2007 11:23 AM) Bookmark Link

hahaha

I don't like olives either.

I WILL CRY YOUR MAJESTY FROM THE CANOPIES OF THE FARMERS' MARKET LIKE-A SO:

sweeeet potato you are neat!!!!!

wild turkey, neat

sweeeet potato, neat!!!!!

from what I hear from other parents these days, most kids don't like olives. So you folks aren't alone.

i cannot understand the sweet potato hate.

I cannot understand the sweet potato love. It tastes like damp sponges.

butter nut squash soup = yummz

The thing is that most people do funky shit to them that makes them nasty. Just cook them and put butter on them. Or make them into pies.

sweet potato fries = delicious

Never tried that. Could be good.

the key is to get them baked rather than fried, actually

even just baked sweet potato without butter is fantastic (esp. the skins)

Sweet potato fries are DELICIOUS. And good with beer.

Euler otm.

Texas Roadhouse not otm: Their "loaded sweet potato" side is a baked sweet potato w/as many marshmallows as yr avg. thxgiving casserole dish and like a half cup of melted caramel. OMG do not want dentures after eating a "Side." I asked for the reg. sweet potao w/butter. The waitress came w/entree, which had plain sweet potato (THANK GOD) and no butter. I asked for butter and she gave me this look like, "Who the hell IS this person who eats just a sweet potato," like I'd asked just for an ice cream cone with butter instead of ice cream. jesus

Texas Roadhouse not otm: Their "loaded sweet potato" side is a baked sweet potato w/as many marshmallows as yr avg. thxgiving casserole dish and like a half cup of melted caramel. OMG do not want dentures after eating a "Side."

-- Abbott, Wednesday, November 21, 2007 1:07 PM (Wednesday, November 21, 2007 1:07 PM) Bookmark Link

The thing is that most people do funky shit to them that makes them nasty.

-- The Reverend, Wednesday, November 21, 2007 12:47 PM (Wednesday, November 21, 2007 12:47 PM) Bookmark Link

This is exactly what I'm talking about.

This year I am thankful that I was not brought up in a household that ever served either sweet potatoes with marshmallows or green bean(/mushroom soup/fried onion) casserole. Seriously, I've never tasted sweet potatoes in any configuration that convinced me they were fit for human consumption.

The marshmallow thing put me off as a kid as well. I mean, everyone likes marshmallows I guess, but it was pretty gross in combination.

I could go just fine without ever eating a marshmallow again. Inflated sugar? More like inflated bullshit.

More like you need to shut up.

http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j171/mdanielwalter/unknown13.jpg

More like you need to shut up.

-- elmo argonaut, Wednesday, November 21, 2007 1:45 PM (Wednesday, November 21, 2007 1:45 PM) Bookmark Link

No, YOU need to shut up.

I have won argument.

sweet potato fries = delicious

I just had the sweet potato fries from here:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2390/1796183676_edd4caa795.jpg

Most awesome!

solid sweet potato fries also can be found at Snug Harbor on Wilshire Blvd in Santa Monica.

You know, I have never had this delightful tuber in pie form. BUT I am having thxgiving tomorrow with my wonderful former prof who cooks a mad soul food thxgiving supper. (Could've had it last year but I had probably eaten hummingbird proportions of body weight:food so I could not eat the delicious (presumably) pie nor the jello-mix 'lite' cheesecake his wife made...tho the latter I do not think is a misfortune).

Where to go for sweet potato pie in LA: http://www.yelp.com/biz/iX6eWMdAMkwa0oXPQrrdow

Sweet Potato Pie choice #2 (and much closer than Les Sisters in Chatsworth): http://www.texasbbqking.com

I got some white sweet potatos the other day, to make a soup. I didn't know it was white until I peeled it. It was the first one I'd ever seen! Am I a freak?

The whole sweet potato/marshmallow thing to me is just wrong. I don't like sweet potatoes anyway, they're slimy and squishy and ugh. But aside from that, vegetables and candy are NOT friends, nor should they date or cohabitate in any way shape or form. Dinner & dessert should be mutually exclusive. see also: Jello salad

vegetables and candy are NOT friends,

OTMCAKES

And before someone says sweet potato pie is vegetables + candy, you are RONG. Pie != candy; pie = pie.

And before anyone says OTMCAKES is vegetables + candy, you are RONG. OTM is not a vegetable.