(no subject)

[eruthros]

I have a huge sweet potato, and when I was deciding what to do with it I was speculating wildly about my ability to make things like sweet-potato home fries. And I'd been thinking about scalloped potatoes already (except I only have two potatoes) when suddenly I thought: omg brilliant! Savory scalloped sweet potato! (None of that weird scalloped-sweet-potato as dessert thing, with sugar and cinnamon and apples.) With cheddar cheese and bechamel! How perfect for the day after sixteen inches of snow (beating the typical April-to-date record by fourteen inches)!

However, this seemed rather like the sort of dinner revelation that should be pondered further. (After all, I am the person who suddenly and on a whim decided that crushed tomatoes, canned tuna, and white beans would make a brilliant pasta sauce. Especially when topped with cheddar. Um. It was actually kinda good. Probably a clear sign that I was really short on some essential nutrient, though.)

Hence: a poll.

[Poll #968432]

Comments

[lysimache.livejournal.com]

I said that I top with cheddar cheese, because I never make true scallopped potatoes, but only ones with ummy-nummy cheese (usually a cheddar/something else blend).

Also I usually make them with milk, not cream, although they are much better, of course, with cream; I heat the milk first, though, to speed things. I rarely (only on, say, T-day) plan ahead enough to only bake the potatoes, so I usually boil them first, then briefly casserole them ("Ow! hot! ow! hot!" I say, as I do that). I like onions, but Lena doesn't, so I don't usually do that. And side dishes shouldn't have meat. :P

[redbyrd-sgfic.livejournal.com]

Yes, I'm right with you on the milk v. cream. Skim milk, too ::sighs::. But keeping heavy cream lying around the house.. just begging to be whipped and ladled over something sweet? So. Not. Wise.

"But I don't wanna grow up!"