What's for Dinner ... Friday?
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What's for Dinner ... Friday?
Comments (9)Glenda: Glad you got to enjoy your lunch with a friend. It all sounds good, but especially the salad. Angela: What a fabulous feast you had tonight!! Raven: My mouth waters as I read about all the goodies you're having. I'm so jealous of the fresh tomatoes. Jasdip: You are really doing a number on us, showing these delicious foods. That looks so good. Fran: I wish I could sneak in your place and steal one of those oysters. Shirley...See MoreWhat's for Dinner ... Friday?
Comments (18)Its confusing because it goes against what has been the accepted common knowledge since perhaps the early 1800's. The farmers growing them and calling them yams, are wrong. The grocers selling them and calling them yams, are wrong. The companies canning them and labeling them as yams, are wrong. The people who first introduced them to the United States called them yams, perhaps to distinguish them from the different variety of sweet potatoes that were already on the market, they were wrong too. Even some sites on the web that try to explain the difference with helpful images like this one: http://www.frugallivingnw.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/yams-sweet-potatoes-is-there-a-difference-2.jpg are wrong. (hint they are all sweet potatoes, despite their labels) So it is not at all surprising that what I learned at a young age from my mother and grandmother, and which was continually re-enforced every Thanksgiving or every time I visited a grocery store, is wrong. I have never eaten a true yam in my life, and seeing some of the pictures of what a true yam look like, I probably never will. Does it harm me in any way if other people choose to call some varieties of sweet potatoes "yams", no. It merely bothers the pedantic part of me a little when someone asserts something to be a fact, when they are in fact wrong....See MoreWhat's for Dinner ... Friday?
Comments (15)Jasdip, lol....I was absolutely being silly, but it turns out that the history behind the colorful name is murky, at best. All of the many stories go pretty much down the same path...it's fast and easy! We babysat for the two little girls who live next door with their grandfather, our much loved neighbor. He had his first date in the many years since his dear wife died! These little girls have real separation anxiety issues and this was the first time that he had left them at night since he took them into his home. I fixed 'breakast for dinner'; pancakes made to order, ham sausage patties, scrambles eggs, and fresh fruit. I let them pick out their pancake ingredients from little bowls of chocolate chips, chopped apple, blueberries, peanut butter, nuts, apricot preserves, and strawberry jam. Just one pancake each, but they really loved their whole supper....See MoreWhat's for Dinner ... Friday
Comments (3)Hey, Bob! We attended a downtown event this evening and sampled some pretty fine beer and ales from our local breweries. There are eight or nine here, now....I had no idea! We also sampled some 'small plate' goodies from several area restaurants and enjoyed everything from pulled pork sliders to delicious lettuce wraps filled with marinated shrimp and vegetables....See MoreMarilyn Sue McClintock
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