Our DMP Adventure or We Don't Have a Clue!

PinotGrigio41

We roast them with our Sunday Lunch as well as mashing them , although we do still have proper roast spuds as well, just less of them ! Piquant I agree they are yummy in a curry

You could have unwittingly started a new discussion 101 ways with Sweet Potatoes here BR !!

miggy

Hello sweet potato fans!

I think they have Vitamin A too, being reddish...

Cheese - mmm! But even despite its allure, I don't understand how you can be keen on it at 20 past 5 in the morning! I just feel food-averse then.

Piquant_2

miggy wrote: »

Hello sweet potato fans!

I think they have Vitamin A too, being reddish...

Cheese - mmm! But even despite its allure, I don't understand how you can be keen on it at 20 past 5 in the morning! I just feel food-averse then.

Goodness, I missed that! Rose what what were you doing at that time of the morning?

I'm with you there miggy, I though I could eat 24/7, but thinking about it, I need to warm up first!

Piq

Piquant_2

...back with the sweet potatoes....they make an amazing chilli! Sweet potatoes go really well with kidney beans. I just bung all the ingredients for the chilli into the slow cooker in the morning, forget about it and at dinner time there is a perfect chilli!

Piq

miggy

Oh now I have to try that! I love my slow cooker! Any tips or shall I just risk inventing a sweet potato chilli?

Piquant_2

miggy wrote: »

Oh now I have to try that! I love my slow cooker! Any tips or shall I just risk inventing a sweet potato chilli?

I'm a chuck it in the slow cooker and see what happens sort of girl!

Okay, here's what I do:

• 1 onion chopped
• 2 sticks of celery chopped
• 1 large sweet potato cubed
• I red pepper diced
• I large tin kidney beans
• 1 large tin chopped tomatoes
• Chilli powder, flakes or paste according to taste [I like mine fairly hot]
• Small amount of vegetable stock

All in the slow cooker for the day. About an hour before it's due check to see it's not too liquid, add a little cornflour if necessary and 4 squares of dark chocolate, needs to be at least 75% cocoa. This turns the chilli from lovely to sublime. Trust me, a little bit of chocolate gives chilli the WOW factor!

Piq

Lemon_Tree

i shall return when all talk of mash has passed lol. i much prefer rice or pasta to the evil potato lol

BlushingRose

miggy wrote: »

Cheese - mmm! But even despite its allure, I don't understand how you can be keen on it at 20 past 5 in the morning! I just feel food-averse then.

I didn't eat any then lol
I was awake due to coughing

BlushingRose

OK, I need to make a ban of all chilli talk from my diary lol it's horrid. I hate kidney beans..

BlushingRose

Well, it's clear that Mr BR is going to have to try harder at NSDs!
Yesterday I suggested getting some petrol for the car (we'd already had to pick up a couple bits at a shop) 'No it'll be ok' he says, then lo and behold today he comes home from work having put £20 petrol in the car *grrr*
Starting to get twitchy about how little money we've got to last us until the 24th, but hopefully we'll be ok if we're careful.
Next pay month is going to be 'interesting' as we've got a trip up north to see my folks and a longer trip south to a family wedding (which we cannot stay for the evening do cos it's a 'pay for yourselves' kind of deal) and we obviously can't stay over either. The nightmare is that the wedding is right at the end of our pay month, a few days before April's pay day.
I've suggested (twice) that we take a chunk of money out of the account for the wedding trip, Mr BR says 'how is that any different from leaving it in the account and not spending it?' well no different, of course, except I think we *will* spend it.