No More Sweet Potatoes and Marshmallows; Chef's are losing it!

[Billyd]

I thought about putting this in the food forum, but this is serious news. I can't imagine a Thanksgiving dinner without Mama's sweet potato casserole. That layer of lightly browned marshmallows make it a perfect meal side and precursor to the desert table. I'm seriously considering labeling the title Chef as an enemy combatant. If they decide to remove cranberry sauce from the Thanksgiving dinner menu, it's a done deal.

One dish chefs say we should never serve

 

[notuptome]

Proof positive of the end of the age. We only use free range marshmallows.

What's next no marshmallows on our hot cocoa?

For the cause of Christ
Roger

 

[Huckleberry]

It's not just marshmallows that make it great.
It's like a brown sugar and butter gravy over mashed sweet
potatoes and the marshmallows are like the sour cream.
And when I say sweet potatoes I mean the good ones, not the orange ones.

 

[pckts]

This guy dyes his hair blonde, what does he know?

 

[Miri]

Sweet potatoes are not that common over here, but they are starting to be
recognised a bit more.

Marshmellows, not that popular, more likely to see little ones in ice cream
or on top of hot chocolage. I didn’t think I have ever had toasted marshmellows.

Come to think of it, we don’t celebrate thanksgiving either.

Now if you were referring to roast beef and Yorkshire puddings with lashings of
gravy...yum.

 

[Dude653]

Meh... I'm not a fan of sweet potatoes

 

[Depleted]

I thought about putting this in the food forum, but this is serious news. I can't imagine a Thanksgiving dinner without Mama's sweet potato casserole. That layer of lightly browned marshmallows make it a perfect meal side and precursor to the desert table. I'm seriously considering labeling the title Chef as an enemy combatant. If they decide to remove cranberry sauce from the Thanksgiving dinner menu, it's a done deal.

One dish chefs say we should never serve

Just keep remembering chefs also think a "pinch of salt" means two large handfuls, plus another large handful or two later. They think turkeys need to be brine because the only flavor of food is salt. They also teach using olive oil as if olive oil doesn't burn at temperatures lower than the meat is done in the olive oil it's cooking in. They also think the two main ingredients for every dish is GREASE and SALT.

So... all in all take what the chefs say with a grain of salt. No, really a grain, not 3-4 heaping handfuls of salt.

Honestly, I have diabetes, and the beginning of hyper tension. (Unfair. It used to be John had them, not me, and now John has neither. lol) So, I haven't had marshmallows on my sweet potatoes in decades. Instead? We add raisins and applesauce. Truthfully, raisins aren't great for diabetes either, but on a special occasion? (Twice a year. Thanksgiving and Christmas.) The taters are low glycemics, so good for us as carbs go. Applesauce is good fiber, and raisins? Well, honestly, we can't choose what size bag of marshmallows to buy, but we can choose which size raisins, and my parents grew up during the Depression, so I still have that "don't throw out food" gene working for me.

As for cranberries? We love them so much that we buy extra when they're on sale in the stores, and then freeze them, so we have homemade cranberry sauce all year round. John makes it, and when it really mattered, (when he had the heart attack and left our house for seven months), he had just made some, and it lasted me until he got home to make some more. lol

His latest batch is the Cadillac for his cranberry sauces. Sometimes he adds orange zest and juice. Other times, an apple. Always a twig of cinnamon. But this has all of the above!

When is Thanksgiving coming, because I'm hungry. lol