Thursday, November 27, 2008

I Am Thankful For....

Google. And let me tell you why!!

Every family get together we have my sister-in-law, Tami, makes the best sweet potatoe pie in the world. She moved to Utah, but before she went she gave everyone in the family her sweet potatoe recipe. Sunday was the first family dinner we had since she and my brother moved. There was no sweet potatoe!! So not only were we short a family, but we were short a very good side dish to our meal.

I decided to make the sweet potatoe pie for our Thanksgiving dinner. I went to the store bought the sweet potatoes, brought them home and peeled them. Then I got my blender out, and tried to mix them up. That didn't work. Here, some of you are probably thinking, well duh, but I had never made mashed potatoes before so I had to go to google "how to make mashed sweet potatoes". Turns out you have to boil them first. Who knew? Then you mash them, and then you blend them.

The recipe never once said boil potaotes, mash them and then mix them. It just said mix the sweet potatoes. So that is what I did.

They turned out great, not quite as good as Tami's, but not bad for a girl who didn't even know who had to boil them first.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

I'll bet jennifer got a kick out of this!

JNew said...

i did - but they were good!

The Brewer Family said...

Ya know, I go exactly by the directions and I probably would have done the same thing you did!