Saturday, December 3, 2016




December 1, 2016


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What do to with the extra sweet potatoes that didn't go into our gumbo?


gumbo
These beauties were of varying size, some larger than my hand, others smaller than an egg.
But if you roast them whole until they're tender and moist, peel them and mash them up together, it doesn't matter that they weren't uniform.

So that's what I did.  And to gild the lily a bit, I also added vanilla and a small amount of sugar (but honestly you could opt out on the sugar), placed them in a buttered dish and topped them with a crumbly mixture of oats, butter, sugar and molasses.  This got baked for about 40 minutes, right up until our meeting.  


Most (but not all) of us dug into the warm, creamy, crunchy dish of goodness- a delightful treat on a chilly morning before school!  The highlight of the experience being the gorgeous, organic, TMS homegrown sweet potatoes that these students planted, watered, and harvested- an ongoing project since May.  Some gardeners remember the exact potato they harvested, wondering if it went into the gumbo or the casserole.  How's that for following from garden to plate?