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(Hazels65) wrote in message >...
> If I see one more canned mushroom soup and green bean cassorole with those
> greasy onions on top I"m gonna puke, but in our family you wouldn't dare have a
> holiday without them. And, who thought it would be a good idea to melt very
> sweet marshmellows (not my first food choice, anyway), on top of brown-sugar
> sweetened, sweet potatoes? OK, OK, I know everyone loves all those horrible
> sweet dishes with meats. What happened to that old adage among gourmets that
> one didn't serve sweet with meat? I learned that one about 50 years ago,
> though I do like a sweet-tart fruit sauce with wine.

Myself, I love a plain baked sweet potato with just butter, and a bit
of salt and pepper with it. Marshmallows--ycch! That definitely
makes them too sicky sweet. My mother though does make a very good
dish with sliced sweet potatoes with orange juice and a bit of maple
syrup, all of which are baked together in the oven as a kind of
casserole. It may sound odd, but it's really delicious, and not too
sweet at all. (No, I don't have the recipe handy right now.) She
started making it so that my vegetarian brother would have one more
dish on the table that he'd eat, and which was innocent of onions and
garlic. I never learned any real 'rule' about not serving sweets with
meat, but it very rarely happened in my family, so I don't do it as it
seems wrong to me. However, some meats, like ham, go very well with
fruit. And turkey just isn't complete for me without cranberry sauce.

>
> However, I did serve one condiment that I love that NOBODY would even try,
> except for a dear old friend who choked down a bite just to make me feel
> better. It goes well with ham. Chunky fruits cooked in butter and flavored
> with curry.

If I had been there, I'd at least have tried them. It sounds like
something I'd like, especially when paired with ham, which I also
love.
>
> Well, there was that time that the oyster stuffing turned gray, but let's not
> go there.
>
> Henrietta

The only time I had oysters in stuffing, it made the entire dish of
stuffing taste fishy. I like oysters--but in their own right, and
very fresh, or in an oyster stew. They don't make a happy marriage
with turkey, but that's just my taste buds talking. =o)

Melissa