{"id":682,"date":"2011-11-23T01:52:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-23T01:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2011\/11\/sweet-potatoes-veggie-or-not-veggie-take-my-poll.html"},"modified":"2011-11-23T01:52:00","modified_gmt":"2011-11-23T01:52:00","slug":"sweet-potatoes-veggie-or-not-veggie-take-my-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2011\/11\/sweet-potatoes-veggie-or-not-veggie-take-my-poll.html","title":{"rendered":"Sweet Potatoes — Veggie or Not Veggie? Take My Poll!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I recently fell in love with sweet potatoes.  I wrote about it in 2009<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Incidentally, Dave had a similar epiphany in 1997 with onions.  He went from hating them to loving them.  I tolerate them, but certainly don’t love them.  He doesn’t love sweet potatoes, so I guess we’re even.<\/p>\n

Anyway, since there’s no point in my making sweet potatoes for holiday meals at home, I often take advantage of pot lucks to make it!  No pictures of my own recipes this time around (I’m actually making it tomorrow morning), but I wanted to share the classic recipe I plan to be using<\/a> for Dave’s squadron Thanksgiving pot luck tomorrow.  Except no cornflake\/pecan topping, just lots and lots of marshmallow.  Because I like it that way.  I’ll let you know how it turns out.<\/p>\n

Stay tuned as I start sharing this year’s suite of holiday cookies that we’ll be making starting this weekend.  I can’t wait!<\/p>\n

So please complete the poll in the upper right corner of the main blog page. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I recently fell in love with sweet potatoes.  I wrote about it in 2009. Incidentally, Dave had a similar epiphany in 1997 with onions.  He went from hating them to loving them.  I tolerate them, but certainly don’t love them.  He doesn’t love sweet potatoes, so I guess we’re even. Anyway, since there’s no point […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[],"tags":[8,77],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5ycQ0-b0","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":403,"url":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2009\/11\/sweet-potatoes-where-have-you-been-all-my-life.html","url_meta":{"origin":682,"position":0},"title":"Sweet Potatoes, Where Have You Been All My Life???","date":"21 November 09","format":false,"excerpt":"With Thanksgiving on our horizons -- despite the retail industry jumping straight into Christmas shopping -- I thought I'd share a Thanksgiving anecdote with you.Like many other things in my culinary world, it's Alton Brown's fault. 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