"brooklyn1" > wrote in message
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> "Kris" > wrote in message
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>> Hi all,
>>
>> A friend is trying to get her son to eat more vegetables, and he had
>> some mashed sweet potatoes recently that we went wild for. So she's
>> trying to replicate them at home.
>>
>> They were extra sweet, but NOT the kind of sweet potatoe casserole
>> with sweet topping recipe. Mashed sweet potatoes with things mixed in
>> to make them even sweeter.
>>
>> Any ideas? I'd like to surprise my friend with some ideas.
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> If out of a can it was butternut squash. The best sweeet potatoes are
> those baked in their jackets... they're plenty sweet, oozing natural
> sugar, they need nothing.
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Canned butternut squash? Hmmm, I've never seen that. I've seen canned
pumpkin (butternut is in that family). Sweet potatoes in a can are often
called "Yams" even though they technically aren't Yams. And they aren't the
same thing at all as squash. Squash grows above ground. Sweet potatoes are
root vegetables.

Jill