Sweet potatoes and squash (was Re: Alternatives to Microwave Cooking)

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> If you don't like the typical overly sweet preparations of sweet

> potatoes

> (marshmallows and crap), you might be pleasantly surprised by this

> savory

> preparation.

I could never get , my husband, to eat sweet potatoes or winter

squash--until we went out to eat for our anniversary a few years ago at

one of our city's best restaurants (Genoa, for those of you in/near

Portland, OR). It's a prix fixe menu; you pick your entree but

otherwise you just sit there and they bring you food. One of the

side dishes was a wonderful winter squash puree. To my surprise,

ate the entire helping and would have had seconds if there were any. I

was so amazed I asked for the recipe (he BEGGED for the recipe!) and

this is what they gave me:

Bake the squash along with a head of garlic (they used a Japanese

winter squash that I can see in my mind's eye but cannot pull up the

name, stupid me, but any winter squash or sweet potato would do). Puree

the (peeled) garlic and (peeled) squash along with plenty of butter and

cream, and a little salt and pepper to taste. That's it. Simple and SO

good.

now happily eats both sweet potatoes and squash, as long as

they're treated more like regular potatoes and less like some excuse to

eat brown sugar.

Lynn S.

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Lynn Siprelle * Writer, Mother, Programmer, Fiber Artisan

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