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Damn, I scared DD away. Come back, come back.
I've almost given up on the family Thanksgiving's and stick with friends, but my cousin makes the best stuffing and my friend's don't serve mashed potatoes! They have baked. That's just not right in my Thanksgiving book!
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It is so not true, Tink.
NO MASHED POTATOES ON THANKSGIVING!?! I'd re-evaluate a few friendships if I were you, Girly.
At Rath's urging, I might add.
I will never, ever discuss the girl with Rath again. Online, on the phone or on the subway. Ever. Again.
awww, Rath & D2, play nicely!
last year I put a bit too much garlic in my home made mashed potatoes, so there were no vampires in NJ that day!
We ARE playing nicely, Tink.
We don't do mashed potatoes at my house on Thanksgiving. Only sweet potatoes. Yum!
Fine, Rath, fine.
We do both, Shamey. Our house is carb heaven on T'day.
I made for Thanksgiving last year:
1st course:
Salad
Homemade Broccoli Cheese Soup
Dinner:
Turkey
Garlic mashed potatoes
baked macaroni & cheese
green bean cassarole
Corn
homemade cranberry bread
my mom's sweet potatoes
Some other random stuff I forget
Dessert
Homemade Pumpkin Pie
homemade Cheesecake
homemade cookies
homemade brownies
homemade chocolate truffles
Mom-in-law's apple pie
I have no idea, but we've always called them sweet potatoes.
With all that butter and brown sugar, they're a dessert.
Several decades ago, when orange-fleshed sweet potatoes were introduced in the southern United States, producers and shippers desired to distinguish them from the more traditional, white-fleshed types. The African word nyami, referring to the starchy, edible root of the Dioscorea genus of plants, was adopted in its English form, yam. Yams in the U.S. are actually sweetpotatoes with relatively moist texture and orange flesh. Although the terms are generally used interchangeably, the U.S. Department of Agriculture requires that the label "yam" always be accompanied by "sweet potato."
Someone who isn't so cute went to have her hair done. And someone else is all caught up with his own stuff.
Our sweet potatoes have always been in pie form. I don't eat mashed potato's because I don't eat gravy. (My mother pours it right on.)
I think this year (If I do decide to eat alone) I'm going to cook cornbread dressing and a Cream Cheese cake. I'll just buy turkey.
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