"Puester" > wrote in message
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> maxine wrote:
> [..] Later, I tried
>> roasting sweet potatoes until they started to ooze their juices.
>> Again, it wasn't the same veggie my Mom had tried vainly to feed her
>> growing rugrat.
>>
>
> YES! I tolerated sweet potatoes once a year for the holidays until I
> tried some that had been cut in wedges and roasted with a tiny bit of
> olive oil and some mixed herb seasoning. They were sweet as honey without
> the dreaded brown sugar or marshmallows. Winter squash has the same
> result.
[..]
>
> gloria p
>
Excuse me for butting in, but I agree about roasted sweet potatoes...in
fact, I've been on an oven roasted veggies kick this winter. Any and all
root veggies, drizzled with olive oil and sprinkles with salt and cracked
black pepper. I discovered parsnips!

Emmy...sometime lurker in OK where they don't know from parsnips
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