Tag: sweetpotatoes

• Travels with Tootsie, sweet potato and peanut stew

  Any day that begins with a video conversation with Dora the Explorer and one of her older sisters calling to say they’re coming for Christmas is a fab one. Saturday morning the Tanzania group was in the middle of 3.5  internet-free weeks on their schedule. So everyone went into a Stonetown internet cafe to upload pictures and […]

  JoAnn Rhodes Grose

  September 24, 2012

  African food, Casseroles, Emo eating, Exercise, Fall, Tomatoes, vegetables

  allspice, cumin, onions, slow-cooker, sweetpotatoes, Tomatoes

• When bad recipes happen to good people

    Most holidays I fall victim to the extravagant cake syndrome. Use something tried and true? Never! That’s how I ended up struggling with the white cake-butter frosting-lemon curd filling-toasted pistachio layer cake from Real Simple for Easter. Real Simple, my Aunt Fanny!   So for Thanksgiving I thought I’d try the sweetpotato layer cake […]

  JoAnn Rhodes Grose

  November 23, 2011

  Badly written recipes — how to deal with, Desserts, good food, Seasonal food

  Candied Pecans, Layer cakes, Marshmallow Filling, Praline, sweetpotatoes, Vegetables

• Biking with buggies, sweetpotato hash

  Sunday afternoon we trucked our bikes across US 21 and into Yadkin County. I hadn’t realized that those few miles would put us so much closer to the blue Brushy Mountains nor how much Amish buggy traffic we’d see late on a Sunday. The air was as crisp as a fall apple — I stayed […]

  JoAnn Rhodes Grose

  October 3, 2011

  Exercise, good food, Rural life, Seasonal food

  Amish country, bicycling, eggs, hash, sweetpotatoes