Oh Sweet P

Mid week is not usually my best time for creative juices to flow. I'm still bitter and stuck in self loathing, not yet feeling the false hopefulness that an upcoming day off brings. So sometimes I just bake a whole package of chicken thighs in the hopes that maybe the next night I'll come up with some amazing dish that I could use roasted chicken meat in. This was the case last night.

When I was in Tucson my mom and dad were eating vats of bananas and sweet potatoes. As a matter of fact, my dad would microwave the potatoes, let them cool and then give them to my mom like a banana, just peeled - nothing added. I'm a follower and will adapt easily to new environments so by the second day I was also eating lots of bananas and sweet potatoes this way. I've always loved sweet potatoes and equally enjoyed torturing P who doesn't love them, with making them a hundred different ways to convince him that he DOES indeed love them. I think I might have finally succeeded with those baked sweet potato fries actually!


But so my only point here is that I learned to eat sweet p's without all the butter and brown sugar that does make them taste good but is not necessary. Pathmark had a package of them for a dollar in their 'almost rotten' bin. Last night I mashed up a couple with just some nutmeg, fresh tangerine juice, zest and salt & pepper. Really good! The color and texture alone feels like flannel pajamas to me. I will eat these all winter. They are one of the best vegetables to eat, with tons of Vitamin C, fiber, beta carotenoids, potassium and B vitamins.