On Thu, 25 May 2006 10:03:36 GMT, "Brian Christiansen"
> wrote:

>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
>

It's possible he was put off by "steam them for 15 min." I nuke
sweet potatoes, essentially steaming it but without the set-up. Of
course, I personally would recognize the equivalence, but perhaps he
didn't.

Also, the adobe sauce. The guy was curious about chipotles but the
recipe calls for yet another unfamiliar ingredient that he probably
doesn't have. I've never had adobo sauce and I'd probably nix any
recipe that called for it unless I was getting into that type of
cooking. I already have numerous jars of things that I've purchased
out of curiousity and didn't continue to use.

Your recipe was probably more information than he needed. Maybe
"They're good on top of sweet potatoes" would have been less
intimidating

Sue(tm)
Lead me not into temptation... I can find it myself!