For those Americans what might be browsing LJ this T-Day

[tzikeh]

[Poll #1093280]

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[way2busymom.livejournal.com]

We make baked butternut squash with bacon, onions & parmesan cheese. Yeah, I know we're odd. :-)

[penknife.livejournal.com]

There's no option for "yes, but I hate it." I don't make it, but if I did, it would have to have little marshmallows on it, which is part of why I don't. (Don't attempt to apply logic, here.)

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

"I hate it, but we don't make it, but if I made it it would have small marshmallows, not big ones; but I hate it."

I feel like I am in a time-travel loop!

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

That sounds really good, actually!

[meri-oddities.livejournal.com]

I usually put mandarin oranges around the edge.

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

Oh that sounds AWESOME. I'm so trying that next time. I may not even wait for Thanksgiving.

[kiki-miserychic.livejournal.com]

I only eat the marshmallows off the top though.

[movies-michelle.livejournal.com]

No Marshmallows! We put brown sugar and walnuts on top of ours. It is sweetsweetsweet, but really good.

[vickita.livejournal.com]

Ooooooh. I'm going to do this next year. Or, you know, maybe later tonight. *g* (Except for it's going to be pecans, not walnuts. I'm not a good little south'ren girl for nothing.)

[reginagiraffe]

I bake mine with a glaze/sauce made from brown sugar, maple syrup, butter, paprika, nutmeg and ground ginger. (I peel them, cut them in chunks and boil them first.)

They're baking now! Mmmmmmmm.

[maygra.livejournal.com]

Sweet potato souffle, no marshamallows, but I suppose whipping the egg whites is close. *g*

[grace-om.livejournal.com]

I cut them in half, rub with olive oil, and roast them. Easy and much better, imho :-D

[jmtorres.livejournal.com]

We used to do that; this year we did sweet potato bread pudding instead.

[sanj.livejournal.com]

We used to do marshmallows, but then the southern cousins taught us this pralined pecan topping that we use instead.

But we only have sweet potatoes when my niece and I are together, because she and I are the only ones who really like them. This year I made roasted beets and broccoli with cheese sauce instead (I'm the -- wait for it -- Vegetable Girl. ;) )

[thecomfychair.livejournal.com]

We just go for the plain brown sugar and butter. None of these fancy little marshmallows for us. :D

[bethcarielle.livejournal.com]

That's how we make ours. Very sweet but so very good.

[penknife.livejournal.com]

I think my feelings about sweet potato casserole are something like the feelings of people who don't actually attend church, but have strong feelings about what the services they're not attending ought to contain. It makes me feel that all is right with the world to know that other people are eating sweet potato casserole with little marshmallows on top of it.

[carla-scribbles.livejournal.com]

Honestly, I think my food-snob parents would have a collective apoplectic episode if a marshmallow came within spitting distance of their dinner table -- this year we had stuffing, popovers, and a cheesy tomato-and-zucchini thing my parents loved and my brother and I wouldn't touch.

[katrimae.livejournal.com]

That's how my mom always fixed them, but I went a different route. I boiled the sweet potatoes and sliced them; then I peeled and sliced some apples (Granny Smith and Fuji) and fried them in butter ; and then I tossed them with some maple syrup, cinnamon and star anise and baked that sucker up.

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

That reminds me of the guys in Catch 22 arguing over which kind of God they don't believe in.

[lydiabell.livejournal.com]

YUM.

[delle.livejournal.com]

sweet potatoes are either baked in butter and brown sugar and topped with marshmellows; or baked in butter and brown sugar with apple slices. my dad insisted on marshmellows... this year, I let my daughter pick because she eats 90% of the sweet potatoes. so apples it is.

[amy_vic.livejournal.com]

I had my Thanksgiving a few weeks back, but I love this poll, so.

My family rarely makes the mashed potates, but when we do, it's *always* with the sliced-in-half marshmallows; the regular size, not the little ones. Also, we do parsnips, cooked with lots of brown sugar.

[beck-liz.livejournal.com]

We put a crunchy topping consisting mostly of brown sugar on ours. I've never seen the marshmallow version. They're probably equally as healthy, though. :-D

[misspamela.livejournal.com]

Mom straight-up baked them this year; she saved the butter/sugar/cinnamon/nutmeg for the butternut squash. Mmm, squash.

[yahtzee63.livejournal.com]

Sometimes we have it with, sometimes without. I can go either way.

[vass]

Not answering the poll because I'm not American: are sweet potatoes usually used in sweet dishes over there? Here they're savoury. I like to make them into wedges.

[carbonel]

There's not an option for "I would never make them that way myself, but I kind of like them that way if someone else serves them."

[finabair.livejournal.com]

As a kid, I found sweet potatoes too sweet on their own. My aunts mutilated them with marshmallows, making them even worse. As an adult I rather like them on their own, but marshmallows are still mutilation.

[xenacryst.livejournal.com]

We go for chopped up and put in the crock pot with some chicken stock, butter, brown sugar, and a decent helping of ground dried ancho chilis. Cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves, too. It comes out as a wonderful sweet mashed goodness with a little bit of kick to it.

[kelliem.livejournal.com]

Seriously, that marshmallow thing is an abomination. Sweet potatoes are best baked in the skin and served hot with butter and salt. If you must mash them, again, just butter and salt. /snobbery

[misspamela.livejournal.com]

We eat them both ways, but there is a long-standing American tradition of making a sweet potato side dish with mini-marshmallows on the top for holiday dinners. And it's not considered a dessert at all -- it goes with dinner.

[the-shoshanna.livejournal.com]

We just bake 'em; I don't even think they need butter, but some others do. I have once or twice mashed sweet potatoes with wasabi, which is yum.

[the-shoshanna.livejournal.com]

omigod yum. *makes note*

[falzalot.livejournal.com]

We don't do anything with sweet potatoes, but if we did, we sure as heck wouldn't put marshmallows on 'em. Ewwwwww!

[(Anonymous)]

I'm totally on the "marshmallow as abomination" side of this issue. In fact, I don't like marshmallows anywhere near anything I'm about to eat or drink. I like my sweet potato baked (or roasted) and topped with salt, pepper & maybe some crumbled bacon.

Emily