[Magdalen] Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire.

[Jay Weigel]

The oven fried sweet potatoes are what we had last night, except sprinkled
with a good bit of Tony Chachere's Creole Seasoning. Very yum!

On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 10:16 PM, Molly Wolf <lupa at kos.net> wrote:

> I cut sweet potatoes into spear-shaped chunks, toss them in a little oil,
> spread them out on parchment paper, and bake them at 400*F, turning them
> over after about 15 minutes, until they are nicely caramelized.  Yums.
> Also good in soup with President's Choice peanut-soy Szechuan sauce, called
> in our household Panda Juice for the animal on the label.
>
> Molly
>
> The man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no
> other way. -- Mark Twain
>
> > On Nov 29, 2016, at 10:02 PM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Eric F.+ had a recipe for sweet potatoes au gratin or parmesan or
> something
> > that sounded really good. I always wanted to try it but my late ex had a
> > serious hate for sweet potatoes in any form. S/O does not, but of course
> I
> > can't find the recipe now. And Eric is dealing with a lot of stuff now
> so I
> > don't feel I can ask him. Anyone else have the recipe?
> >
> >> On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 9:55 PM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Horse chestnuts are also known as 'buckeyes" in the US, and especially
> in
> >> Ohio and the upper midwest.
> >>
> >>> On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 9:48 PM, Sibyl Smirl <polycarpa3 at ckt.net>
> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> On 11/29/16 3:11 PM, Sally Davies wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> The other chestnuts I know from there are the ones kids use to make
> >>>> "conkers", pretty but completely inedible even by horses though they
> are
> >>>> called "horse chestnuts". I brought one back in my pocket but it
> didn't
> >>>> grow, it probably didn't like South Africa.
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> As I understand it, the word "horse" when attached to a plant is a
> >>> corruption of "coarse".  Usually, anyway.
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>> Sibyl Smirl
> >>> I will take no bull from your house!  Psalms 50:9a
> >>> mailto:polycarpa3 at ckt.net
> >>>
> >>
> >>
>
>