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[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]

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[redbyrd-sgfic.livejournal.com]

I don't make scalloped potatoes often because they're kind of a pain. But I *always* do cheesy sauce, because I don't like white sauce. More likely not with sweet potatoes, though because they have lots of flavor of their own. Them I usually just bake and eat with butter.

Note that I have made sweet potato fries, and they totally suck. Not in the sense of tasting bad, but the sweet potatoes are a lot tougher than regular ones to cut up. They also take *forever* to cook. If you try it, I'd suggest baking in the microwave first, then cutting them up and frying lightly. If you fry the raw potatoes in oil, go with shoestring fries.. they have at least some small chance of cooking the interior before the exterior has turned to charcoal.