Caramelized Sweet Potato Puppy A La Russe
This is the most delicious taste imaginable... Even better than I remembered it ...
I wrote all this before and saved it and it was all here. Then Flickr somehow lost my description, my title, and my tags. I will reconstruct my remembrances later.
Simply stated, each weekend, I was allowed to have a hot baked potato, fresh from a street vendor's oven, OR a Charlotte Russe strawberry shortcake with whipped cream on top. Each cost a nickel or a dime. I can no longer remember which. That was a lot of money back in the day. I was never sure which i would pick until the very last moment. Then I would eat whichever I had chosen as we walked along the north side of Delancy Street, in Manhattan, New York City, heading west from Broom Street to the subway stop. By that point the train had descended underground from the Williamsburg Bridge.
This morning, as i slit one sweet potato open and was savoring each forkful, I remembered my childhood sweet potatoes. I suddenly remembered the spray can of whipped cream in the fridge. I carefully put some on the potato on my fork. (The forks belonged to my parents.) Now I had created a Sweet Potato a la Russe delicacy. I found it to be the best taste on this Planet Earth!!
It is the easiest thing in the world to bake. Just wash some sweet potatoes and place them in a baking pan. I put them on the lower shelf and bake them at about 300 degrees F for about 40 minutes. The sugar within the potatoes caramelizes and oozes out into the pan. When you smell it perfuming the house, you know it's done. Remove it from the oven. Place one sweet potato in a plate, slit it open lengthwise, spread it apart a bit and begin eating... Yummy. The whipped cream makes it not a healthy treat, so just take a few forkfuls with whipped cream on top. Three were enough for me.
I realized this should be in Chic's Childhood Memory Cookbook, and for that i need a Flickr photo. So, I took a new forkful out to the pool and shot it one handed with my pocket iPhone camera...
BTW, this is SOOC, straight out of the camera with no processing.
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Caramelized Sweet Potato Puppy A La Russe
This is the most delicious taste imaginable... Even better than I remembered it ...
I wrote all this before and saved it and it was all here. Then Flickr somehow lost my description, my title, and my tags. I will reconstruct my remembrances later.
Simply stated, each weekend, I was allowed to have a hot baked potato, fresh from a street vendor's oven, OR a Charlotte Russe strawberry shortcake with whipped cream on top. Each cost a nickel or a dime. I can no longer remember which. That was a lot of money back in the day. I was never sure which i would pick until the very last moment. Then I would eat whichever I had chosen as we walked along the north side of Delancy Street, in Manhattan, New York City, heading west from Broom Street to the subway stop. By that point the train had descended underground from the Williamsburg Bridge.
This morning, as i slit one sweet potato open and was savoring each forkful, I remembered my childhood sweet potatoes. I suddenly remembered the spray can of whipped cream in the fridge. I carefully put some on the potato on my fork. (The forks belonged to my parents.) Now I had created a Sweet Potato a la Russe delicacy. I found it to be the best taste on this Planet Earth!!
It is the easiest thing in the world to bake. Just wash some sweet potatoes and place them in a baking pan. I put them on the lower shelf and bake them at about 300 degrees F for about 40 minutes. The sugar within the potatoes caramelizes and oozes out into the pan. When you smell it perfuming the house, you know it's done. Remove it from the oven. Place one sweet potato in a plate, slit it open lengthwise, spread it apart a bit and begin eating... Yummy. The whipped cream makes it not a healthy treat, so just take a few forkfuls with whipped cream on top. Three were enough for me.
I realized this should be in Chic's Childhood Memory Cookbook, and for that i need a Flickr photo. So, I took a new forkful out to the pool and shot it one handed with my pocket iPhone camera...
BTW, this is SOOC, straight out of the camera with no processing.
IMG_8362 - Version 2