"Brian Christiansen" > wrote in message
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>A while back, I was at Safeway, and I was looking for chipotle chiles, and
>a man came and helped me look a bit. While we were looking, he asked me
>what I do with them. I told him that I cut up a sweet potato, steam it for
>~15 minutes, then mash it with a chopped chipotle, some adobo sauce, some
>butter, and some salt, the recipe is on the food network site, under the
>show "Good Eats" (probably lots of other places too). He said that the
>recipe sounded good, but that it also sounded like "too much trouble."
>
> I didn't say anything other than "thank you for helping me look," and I
> cannot remember if we even found them. I think just about anyone here
> could regognize that procedure as making mashed sweet potatoes. However,
> two things have occured to me since then, 1) I don't have any idea of any
> other wat to get mashed sweet potatoes, and 2) if that man thought that
> that simple procedure is "too much trouble," he must not cook.
>
> Brian Christiansen
>
I just wanted to comment on all the answers that I got to this. It seems
there are many ways of preparing sweet potatoes for mashing, in fact I
googled for recipes and many involved mashing the potatoes then baking them
kind of like a casserole. There are even other recipes for mashed swwet
potatoes with chiopotle chiles. The specific place where the recipe I use
is at:
http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/reci..._24966,00.html. I
almost always eat it with ham, I also cut the amounts in half.

What I meant by not knowing how to get mashed sweet potatoes otherwise is
that I don't know any other way than making them from scratch, whether they
are steamed, baked, cooked in a pressure cooker, or whatever (those methods
are probably "too much trouble" as well, at least in the eyes of the man who
helped me look.) My point is that I have never seen instant mashed sweet
potato flakes (probably wouldn't be as good any way).

I also am pretty much a drive through junkie, but I still cook from scratch
every now and then.

Brian Christiansen.