I don't care for pumpkin. I do love sweet potatoes. I have not found a sweet potato dish I didn't like.

I don't care for pumpkin or sweet potatoes and avoid eating anything made with either. It seems to not be so unusual judging from preceding comment by and about others who also dislike either or both.

jemdandy The darker pumpkin fillings come from using molasses and /or brown sugar instead of white sugar. You would have to use way too much spice to deepen the color.

I love both! Definitely enjoy them most warm with whipping cream. This evening it was pumpkin pie for our Canadian Thanksgiving. Scrumptious! DS made it.

I love both sweet potatoes and pumpkin! I’ve never had a sweet potato pie but I do love a good pumpkin pie, I don’t think the recipe on Libby’s canned pumpkin (not the pie mix) can be beaten.

I make a pumpkin pie dish for Thanksgiving each year. I put canned yams (drained), cream, an egg and brown sugar and a bit of orange juice in my Cuisenart and blend but leaving a few pea-size lumps of pumpkin. This has a little dark brown sugar sprinkled on top and is baked. It’s sort of like sweet potato custard. It’s delicious,.

Never had sweet potato pie. Am following to see if the OP answers the question as to what is the difference in the two pies. Also never hears of nor would consider boiling sweet potatoes. I am wondering about the comment that butternut squash is the content of canned pumpkin pie. I guess there is a PPfilling not to be confused with cold pack pumpkin which is what I am used to using when making pumpkin pie. So do people use sweet potatoes for bread? Never saw that in a recipe. Pumpkin is a go to flavor for Thanksgiving but when making pie choices it would not be my first. I have never cooked a pumpkin like I do squash varieties. Never tried it in soup as I hear is popular in some areas....I think it's a regional thing?

Pumpkin, for sure. My favorite. I don't like sweet potatoes, although I can eat them in a dish with lots of other ingredients, like a curry. But a big NO to sweet potato pie. I accidentally got some once, it was awful.

I love sweet potato pie, more than pumpkin, which I also like. But DH prefers pumpkin so that's what we always have. I love any kind of sweet potato dish and just plain baked. When I prepare salmon I always also bake sweet potatoes to have with it.

My brother loved pumpkin pie until gramma gave him a squash pie telling him it was pumpkin...it was so awful compared to his expectations that he couldn't eat pumpkin pie for years after.

I love them both and also love butternut squash. So either or both are great with me. No soup for me, I don't care at all for it.

Sue

Pumpkin. I hate sweet potatoes. I love pumpkin. Especially in pie.

I'm an equal opportunity pie eater, love both pumpkin and sweet tater pies.

My grandmother once brought us a pumpkin pie that either she had made or she had bought. It was served at the end of the meal, and it was awful. And in looking around the table I could tell my brothers and sister thought so as well. We kept asking for more Cool Whip to put on it to try to mask the flavor. When we all had finished she cackled with glee saying "I fooled you all, it was sweet potato pie, not pumpkin pie, and none of you could tell." The older me wishes that the younger me had said something like, "We could tell something was wrong. We didn't expect that you would lie to us, so we merely assumed you had just made the worst pumpkin pie ever made, which given some of the the other food you've made for us is pretty easy to believe." But that probably wouldn't have ended well for young me.

I like them both although would opt for a more typical fruit pie if given a choice :-) Sweet potato pie seems to be of a more ethnic origin and I have only had it prepared by someone with African American ancestry. But it was excellent and very rich and flavorful.

I am surprised at how many dislike sweet potatoes. I love them and eat them often - health-wise they are very good for you. However, I prefer them in savory rather than sweet dishes. Sweet potato fries are awesome! Even better with garlic aioli. I also like them baked (served with just butter and S&P), roasted, and mashed with goat cheese. No sickly sweet brown sugar and marshmallow casserole for me!

And I make a mean sweet potato biscuit :-)

Bob, that sounds like something my sister would do, but I would always tell her when she did.

Isn't pumpkin a squash anyway? I've read that some canned pumpkin contains squash in it. I've never had sweet potatoes that I like, but I do like pumpkin pie on the rare occasion and used to make them for the restaurant where I worked in San Francisco. I would make 27 of them for Thanksgiving.

Love pumpkin pie and I always use brown sugar. I like sweet potatoes too but not for pie.

Never even heard of sweet potato pie until I moved down here. I like it better than pumpkin pie.

I love sweet potatoes baked in their shell, then cut and drenched with butter. I also love sweet potato fries. Definitely do NOT like the casserole with the marshmallows, etc.

Lars, I'm pretty sure I've read the same thing somewhere along the line, that canned 'pumpkin' is actually squash. But I'm thinking, too, that pumpkin is a variety of squash. I've never made a pie starting with a fresh pie pumpkin. I did try using one of the big Jack-O-Lantern pumpkins one time, many years ago, before I knew better. BIG mistake! ! !

Rusty

Pumpkin IS a squash. It is of the same genus and species - Cucurbita pepo - as most other common squashes grown and eaten here - summer squashes like crookneck, patty pan, zucchini; winter squashes like acorn, butternut or delicata. Even most gourds are in this species. The only thing that separates them is subspecies.

Giant pumpkins, like most jack'o lantern varieties, are a different species, Cucurbita maxima. Kabocha and Hubbard are members of this species as well.

Dawn, would you share your recipe? I love sweet potatoes! DH, not so much.

Kabocha makes a delicious pie! That’s what I use as it’s the tastiest of what we call pumpkins here. It used to be called the Jap pumpkin but now it’s called the Kent pumpkin.

Homemade pumpkin pie using fresh not canned pumpkin is good.

Real sweet potatoe pie is a slice of heaven.

Also it's dressing made in a dish

Canned yams are sweet potatoes(Ipomoea batatas) and the chances of getting an actual Yam (Dioscorea sp.)at a grocery store is practically non existent . they are enormous things that only vaguely resemble sweet potatoes. There are perhaps 80 or more varieties of sweet potatoes from very pale colored bland ones to very dark red resinous ones. Some are small and slender and others are huge things (but not as big as yams) I used to grow the deep garnet red variety Nancy when I lived in the south. Baked they have a deep rich flavor. Candied sweet potatoes don't have to have marshmallows. You bake your potatoes, peel and slice in to big chunks into a buttered casserole. Make a syrup of brown sugar, a little molasses (or maple syrup if you prefer) and some water, toss in some cinnamon, fresh ground nutmeg, and sliced candied ginger. Pour over your potatoes and sprinkle with generous lumps of butter-all of this to taste and bake till it is caramelized. It is always popular in spite of being a very sweet dish.

"It is always popular in spite of being a very sweet dish."

Not necessarily :-) My family won't touch it....like eating dessert as part of the main meal. Yuck!! But they go nuts for the mashed sweet potatoes with goat cheese!

We always paired fowl with rice, pork with potatoes and beef with pasta. So no potatoes with turkey, rice just goes better with it.

I imagine it would work fine if for variety you served beef with potatoes or pork with rice. Neither are odd combinations.

I'm with gardengal - there are two out of one dozen in our enlarged (with spouses and kids) nuclear family who will eat sweet potatoes and knowing them I suspect they eat them just baked and plain. They can eat sweet potatoes (and squash) at times other than family meals when all are together. .

I'm not sure I'd agree that rice just goes better with poultry than potatoes or pasta :) I can think of dozens of recipes or meal plans that combine poultry with both. And c'mon......fried chicken and mashed potatoes or roast turkey with mashed potatoes and gravy is so traditional as to be the expected accompaniment!

Kathy, I'm on my way to the dentist, but I will look for the recipe when I get home. If I am able to locate it, I'll post it for you later.

I like both pumpkin and sweet potato pie. DH & DS like pumpkin so that is what we have every Thanksgiving. We have home made candied sweet potatoes too, no marshmallows (hate that). I had sweet potato pie for the first time about 5 or so years ago and really liked the taste and texture more than pumpkin.

Instead of a regular potato we bake a dark skin sweet potato in it's skin as a side dish served with any meat main course, though really good with chicken. Love it with butter and a dash of cinnamon. Not wild about sweet potato fries because they are too soft and not crispy like regular fries. DS loves them and asks for them every time we have fries.

"'m not sure I'd agree that rice just goes better with poultry than potatoes or pasta"

It works fine in ALL Asian cuisines. I think the sentiment relies on what you've had traditionally, not what "goes". "Rice" to me doesn't mean bland white rice - it's basmati, wild rice, rice prepared with savory sauces and/or all kinds of veggies, fruits, etc thrown in. We eat it rarely at home but I think it certainly "goes". Those who don't, fine. I was responding to someone who seemed locked in to having only this with that, which to me is boring. Have as you like, just please don't pass me that sweet potato dish or the pie.

I had sweet potato pie once at Parris Island, SC. It's checked off my bucket list. Done, once and for all.

Elmer, I was responding to this comment specifically: "So no potatoes with turkey, rice just goes better with it."

Sure, rice goes with poultry.......but it is a matter of personal preference as to what starchy side goes "better". There are many - certainly most of my family - who would be appalled at a roast turkey/traditional Thanksgiving dinner that didn't include mashed potatoes!

And I am not at all sure how many Asian cuisines include turkeys in their diets anyway :-)

I've never had a sweet potato pie either; I have had truly terrible pumpkin pie (like the one from Kroger last year!); but I adore my own pumpkin pie either from canned pumpkin or from fresh.

I like both pumpkin and sweet potato very well as a straight vegetable, with butter or spicy seasoning, or in casseroles, soups, stews and chili. I just get the ordinary "Halloween" pumpkins, roast them, then peel, deseed, and it then goes into the freezer for later use. I am not and never was a fan of any of the sweetened ways to prepare winter squash or sweet potatoes at all. My family never did the marshmallow topped casserole thing. I guess the closest I have come is to bake the sweet potatoes in a gratin with apples.

I like pumpkin, squash, and sweet potato pies. I like them in quick breads and soups too. Or halved and stuffed, or cubed and roasted.. or taking different squashes and pumpkins and making squash flour out of it for adding into baked goodies. I like baked sweet potatoes with lots of butter like a regular sweet potato, or squash slices fried up and sprinkled with seasonings. Sweet potato fries are great if they are made like good potato fries, and not left to be soft or limp. Shredded dehydrated sweet potatoes are nice on pizza, and used pureed instead of regular tomato sauce, and roasted slices as a topping. Pickled winter squash is right tasty when done right.

I'm like Elmer. Blech to both!

garden, my comment was a response to what raye s said - A with B, C with D, E with F. Her comment wasn't restricted to Thanksgiving and mine wasn't either.

I was at Costco today and they had the nicest sweet potatoes I have seen there. Nice big plump ones so I bought a bag. I will bake some for the freezer. They freeze really well once baked and are quick to thaw and reheat.

We have lost the foodway of sweets with meat. Practically the only ones left are mint jelly and some chutneys-not so popular in the us as Britain. Once upon a time people ate many different kinds of sweet jellies and candied fruits plus fruit "meats" which were very concentrated fruit pastes cooked to set and slice. Candied sweet potatoes must be left from that era. A properly set table in the 1700 and early 1800's would have multiple jellies and pickled things(some sweet) set in elaborate table settings. Sweet potatoes have a long growing season and need heat so necessarily they would have been southern. When my grannie meant sweet potato she said potato but if white potato she called it Irish potato.

I think that what starch goes with what meat is mostly a matter of preference and what we are accustomed to.

I like beef with potatoes, pork with rice and chicken with either. But, that doesn't mean I won't eat beef with rice or pork with potatoes. It's just that I was conditioned in my formative years to prefer those combos.

Much as I like wild rice, brown rice, rice pilafs and mixtures, my first love is long grain white rice with butter and salt. It's another holdover from my childhood and one that I haven't been able to outgrow.

Kathy, I found the recipe, but it's now time for dinner here. If I don't get it posted tonight, I will definitely get it done tomorrow.

I prefer potatoes with most beef. With most fish I prefer rice and with poultry or pork anything goes. It also depends on the type of food. I like pasta with veal or fish in an Italian restaurant but rarely eat it otherwise. I am also quite happy to forego a starchy side if good bread is available.

Being from rice growing country, if potatoes were served with anything but pork there would have been trouble. I find mash potatoes to be tasteless and the texture is like baby food. There's a reason why many Cajun dishes have rice as a base.

Although I do love sweet potatoes in a variety of ways, I only want them to accompany certain foods. I mentioned that I love it with salmon but I wouldn't want it with a piece of beef. I don't think I would want one with any other kind of seafood, either. There are just certain foods that go with certain foods. I had to learn to like rice as we seldom had it growing up in my family, the main starch was potatoes. But now there are certain things that I prefer rice. I learned to like it because DH loves it. And if I don't show up at my family's house on Thanksgiving with the sweet potato casserole there will be a lot of pouting going on, but there are a couple who don't care for it and that's OK. The version that I make does not include marshmallows, BTW.

I don't know that for me anyway, one starch is always superior over another. And except for a few (for me) traditions like mashed potatoes at Thanksgiving with the turkey, I don't think certain starches have to be served with certain other foods.

I love mashed potatoes and gravy, and latkes, and seasoned fries, and baked potatoes and sweet potatoes. But I also like rice more than I used to along with discovering more about different kinds of rice and different ways to cook it. And of course there are the huge worlds of pasta and bread.

In certain areas one starch may be much more available but in the U.S. anyway, ordinary grocery stores will have a good selection so one's palate does not need to be bound by one's home state.

There's a reason why many Cajun dishes have rice as a base.

Yes, but not a culinary reason. They did not choose rice because it was an especially delicious starch, they chose it because it was easily grown. When the Acadians settled in Louisiana, the geographical climate was good for raising rice. The Cajun style of cooking developed there and rice was an easily available staple.

Glenda...you have a step son? Have we seen photos? Is he in addition to your 2 sons?

I baked myself a pumpkin pie today. I did not put a crust with it, just baked it in the pie plate. Waiting for it to cool down!

Sue

nicole, my previous stepson! I have one son and one grandson :o) Who BTW is in transition from Hawaii to Virginia. He's home for a month, now.

Thx for asking.

Dollar General Market has sweet potatoes this week three pounds for a dollar. I had my daughter get me several pounds and she plans to get me some more. I will dehydrate several for Izzi for a treat and also cook some for her plus we use a lot of them too. They will keep for a year for me in my partially underground garage.

Sue and Izzi Too

I love both pumpkin and sweet potatoes, both in sweet and savory recipes. I found this recipe for SP pie that is a bit different in that it doesn’t have the spices(cinnamon, nutmeg et al)that are typical in a pumpkin or sweet potato pie. My son and his wife love it, we put this in a gluten free crust and serve with the whipped topping made from coconut milk, it’s a different take that we all love.

Pie

Pumpkin chiffon pie is my fave.