Turkey day is tomorrow and I've already started to get ready. I'm actually kinda mad right now. Dave did the shopping.... Yeah you can already see what I'm mad about. This bird is like 5lbs bigger than it needs to be, didn't get what I need to make a glaze, didn't get squash and get this. He already started eating the pie. Yup. He got 2 pies, apple and pumpkin. Half of the apple is already gone. Pig ate that much in one sitting. *sigh* other than that I'm gonna try a new way of making the sweet potatoes which makes me want to go into a rant.
There are actually 'sweet potatoes' and 'yams'. Not related in anyway. But In almost 90% of supermarkets they label 'sweet potatoes' as 'yams' This is because there are several different types of sweet potatoes, and one of them is sweeter than the rest. Because of this they like to label them differently, they also like to do this because they can easily make a few extra bucks by making you think you're buying something better than a store advertising them as sweet potatoes. So yes there is technically a difference between SP and yams, but I'm betting if you've had them both at one point or another, specially at a holiday dinner that they were actually the same thing, even the same family of the SP. Oh and just an extra tidbit, SP can very from a yellowish rounder spud (not to be confused with ones like Idaho) to the classic SP/yam, orange-ish with tips. Actual yams have a very dark brown, almost black, bark like skin to it.
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