If You’re Happy and You Know It, Eat Your Yams

December 15, 2009

My Prestidigitating Suitor and I made yams. Two great big yams, baked in the oven. I wasn’t sure what we were going to do with them, exactly, but since it takes about 45 minutes to bake yams, I figured we’d throw them in the oven first and contemplate later.

Once they were cooked and cooling on the cutting board, I suggested that we mash them into two separate dishes, and season them differently, and have two different kinds of yams (along with our stuffing and roasted brussels sprouts). This was the result:

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I made the one on the left, Yam with Mango Chutney and Orange:

Get a giant yam, a jar of mango chutney, and an orange. Cook the yam and mash it into a dish. Cut up half an orange. If the orange has seeds, remove them. Mix the orange bits and a bunch of mango chutney into the yams.

The Prestidigitating Suitor made the one on the right, Molasses Happyface Yam with Macadamias:

Get a giant yam, some macadamia nuts, and some molasses. Cook the yam and mash it into a dish. Smash up some macadamia nuts. Mix the smashed nuts and some molasses into the yams. Place two whole macadamia nuts as eyes. Carve a mouth. Harvest the remnants of someone else’s orange to make eyebrows. Make someone else take the first serving so you don’t feel bad about eating the face.

This has been today’s yam idea post. Hope you enjoyed it.

Posted by jen | Filed Under recipes 

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