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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]

Comments

[umbo.livejournal.com]

I, uh, don't like sweet potatoes (despite my mother telling me more times than I can count how good and how good for me they are). And I've never made scalloped potatoes, so I couldn't fill out the second part of the poll....

On the other hand, I did make enchiladas again tonight. Mmmm, enchiladas!

[fiatlouis.livejournal.com]

I was sad to see the missing option:
I've never made scalloped potatoes.

[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.

[panisdead.livejournal.com]

I said "top with something else" because I don't like sweet potatoes and am only so-so on scalloped potatoes. I prefer the rosemary-garlic-olive oil potato roast.

[joie-de-livre.livejournal.com]

Heehee! Me too!

[joie-de-livre.livejournal.com]

I love cheddar cheese with my apple pie, so even though you're doing a savory thing, I say hooray for cheddar!
Although my latest culinary experiment (strawberries and hummus- it sounded good at the time!) was kind of a disaster. :P

[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

[ryca.livejournal.com]

Don't know if you have the necessary ingredients, but your post reminded me of this numminess (http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/recipes/recipe/0,,FOOD_9936_35616,00.html?rsrc=search) that I saw on Nigella Bites (Feasts?) a few weeks ago. Searching for that one led me to this one (http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/recipes/recipe/0,,FOOD_9936_36312,00.html?rsrc=search), as well.

[ryca.livejournal.com]

me three!

[redbyrd-sgfic.livejournal.com]

Oh, yum! This makes my mouth water, even first thing in the morning...

[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!"