On 5/22/2021 1:05 PM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> On Saturday, May 22, 2021 at 1:03:53 PM UTC-4, dsi1 wrote:
>> On Saturday, May 22, 2021 at 6:39:37 AM UTC-10, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>>> On Saturday, May 22, 2021 at 12:35:52 PM UTC-4, dsi1 wrote:
>>>> On Saturday, May 22, 2021 at 5:08:01 AM UTC-10, Sheldon wrote:
>>>>> On Fri, 21 May 2021 di1wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I had a roasted sweet potato the other day.
>>>>>> https://photos.app.goo.gl/CAAnhHWszTPGaBvq5
>>>>>
>>>>> You can buy them from street venders all over NYC.
>>>> My guess is that these are different from NYC street vendor sweet potatoes. They're quite different from any baked potatoes I've ever had. Oddly enough, they taste like pumpkin pie.
>>> They appear to be ordinary baked sweet potatoes. They taste like pumpkin
>>> pie because sweet potatoes and pumpkin taste something like each other.
>>>
>>> Do you detect any of the usual pumpkin pie spices? Nutmeg, clove, dried ginger,
>>> cinnamon?
>>>
>>> Cindy Hamilton
>> There is no pumpkin pie spices in there but the experience is similar - a soft custard-like texture, and and intensely sweet pumpkin taste. Beats me how one gets a potato to have the texture of custard. I think my family is hooked on these Don Quijote sweet potatoes.
>
> Baking them until they're done but not dried out. It isn't rocket science.
>
> Cindy Hamilton
>

The nice thing with sweet potatoes you can get a caramelized outside
and still be soft and moist inside. I cut them into chunks and cook
them along with a roast or chicken parts.