the most amazing sweet potato whip

Dale made the most amazing sweet potato dish, basically boiled and mashed them with a stick of butter and they were sooo good! light, fluffy and delicious. try it, you'll like it!

Commentary

So I made the two recipes I posted for Thanksgiving and thought I'd comment.

The Sweet Potato Gratin with Chile-Spiced Pecans turned out really well. I made it twice. I had to cook the sweet potatoes a little longer and at a bit higher temp because I had humongo potatoes, but otherwise everything went fine. The second time I made the recipe I made everything ahead of time except for the last 25 minutes of baking and this worked fine. I also substituted regular chili powder because that's what I had.

The Creamed Spinach was a ton of work! If I ever try to make this again I will definately look for a recipe that calls for frozen spinach. Four pounds of fresh spinach is about 8 bunches. Also, despite the fact that the recipe called for half a stick of butter and 1.5 cups heavy cream, it wasn't as creamylicious as the kind you get at the restaurant. Kinda scary.

Spinach Salad

This is a recipe I got from my sis, it's one of her specialties and has become a favorite at our holiday meals.

Spinach Salad

1 large bunch fresh spinach
2-3 hard boiled eggs
1 cup sour cream
1 pkg frozen peas
some cooked bacon
1 cup mayo
1/2 - 1 cup parmesan cheese

-Clean and chop/tear spinach
-Barely cook the peas, if preparing the salad the night before you don't need to cook the peas at all.
-Chop bacon
-Mash eggs
-Mix mayo and sour cream together
-Place 1/4 of spinach, peas, bacon & eggs in bottom of bowl and top with 1/4 of sour cream and mayo mixture. Repeat layers and top with parmesan cheese.