#Maple Syrup Potat

[thepenguisalive7]

Old friendship in the form of intense sports 🏐

Saph and Maple played volleyball on one of their many ventures once. Before they more or less cut ties at least.

They used to try out every single job they could, neither being able to keep a single job. Even in school with they’d enter every single club without sticking to a single one. Try and try again, but they did most things together.

They’re 15 in this particular drawing. At least Maple is. In present however, Maple is 21. Saph ages a little differently however due to demons aging differently.

[oliviadrawsbts]

Made some trout with honey Dijon mustard and maple syrup, served with sweet potats AND MY GOSH!!! Delicious!!

[cooking-thru-shortstack]

Introduction to Sweet Potatoes

I said I was back....about half a year ago, and it's true. I've finally started up this little side project, and to get things started in the traditional way with the author's own words on their chosen ingredient. Take it away, Scott:

"I had no formative childhood experience with sweet potatoes, no orange-hued urge born out of nostalgia. My family ate sweet potatoes only at Thanksgiving, when we slid them out of their aluminum can, and then topped them with marshmallows and baked them until they were hot and clinging like napalm. The tinny sweet potatoes were merely a conveyance, a method for devouring marshmallows like they were vegetables instead of candy. 

No, my fondness for sweet potatoes grew with time. Incensed their possibility in that '90s fixture, the Southwestern sweet-potato salad. Clarity struck the first time I tasted a baked sweet potato. I had read about compound butter loaded with lime and chipotle chile. I made it to go with sweet potatoes that I'd baked until they were so soft they began to implode. Spicy, smokey and tart with lime, the butter was a live wire. I halved the tubers, slapped some on, and took a bite. Bom. Sweet potatoes' allure whirred into focus. 

There are few ingredients that can taste so like themselves under the influence of an expansive range of flavorings and seasonings. There are few vegetables used in so many cuisines across the world, let alone a vegetable that is equally comfortable at a meal's end or as its centerpiece. 

Sweet potatoes are sliced and then dried in the sun in Uganda. They are roasted whole, then eaten as booze sponges on the streets of Seoul, Cairo and Tokyo. In Mexico, sweet potatoes are simmered in a syrup made from unrefined cane sugar, a smart cousin of those one[-note Thanksgiving sweet potatoes. India, the Caribbean, the Philippines, Peru, New Zealand: the list goes on.

A sweet potato's ability to sustain is itself a marvel: It's packed with nutrients and thrives under even the most difficult growing conditions. There is a movement in parts of Africa to expand the cultivation of sweet potatoes to help combat malnutrition. 

The recipes in its book are influenced by the sweet potat's worldwide ubiquity and chameleon nature. However, these dishes are in no way authentic. I cook like a bald eagle builds a nest, collecting and accumulating bits that attract my attention. These recipes capture the best of what it means to cook in America right now: being resourceful in the kitchen; absorbing and honoring the foods and techniques of a variety of cuisines; and gently scoffing at the impossible goal of authenticity. 

So I fortified a rather traditional base for Thai boiled coconut soup with sweet potatoes, then blended it until it was smooth. I cooked sweet potatoes into a jam, to be eaten on toast, spoon on sweet-potato biscuits or layered a trifle with maple walnuts and sherry-soaked sponge cake. I rolled phyllo around sweet potato puree musky with nutmeg. I even revisited the flavored butter that parked my sweet-potato admiration. 

The best ingredients allow us to play, to fumble, to refine. Sweet potatoes are both welcoming and forgiving. I couldn't ask for more from an ingredient."

-- Scott Hocker

[caribbeanvibesblog]

Let’s Cook With Me | Maple Syrup and Garlic Lamb Chops with mashed potat...

[noxtms]

surprise ! this is a little bit of an out of character information drop, given that people wanted a bit of a guideline for the terror maze... and there’s one special facet to the event that you guys can enjoy for the duration ! 

THE COCKTAILS :

the free drink on entry isn’t just a cheap alcoholic bevvie, and upon consumption... characters will start to feel some pretty specific effects, depending on their choice. each one of the specials has been spiked with a different potion, and your choices are :

THE WITCH’S HEART.   apple vodka, blackberry, grenadine and a splash of veritaserum over dry ice.   for the remainder of the night, anyone who’s consumed this particular cocktail won’t be able to tell a lie... and may just find their truths spilling without intention.

THE JACK O’LANTERN.   orange liquor, cognac, ginger ale, orange juice and a dash of felix felicis.   not enough to make someone feel unusually giddy, but certainly enough to give their luck a noticeable boost. 

THE FRANKENSTEIN.   mint infused vodka with sugar syrup and a shot of antithesis drought.   someone kind may find themselves giving in to their worst impulses.... and someone particularly cruel may find themselves acting far kinder than usual. 

THE HAUNTED GRAVEYARD.   heated bourbon, maple syrup and a sprig of rosemary with an invisibility potion.   the unlucky individuals who choose this particular drink will find themselves fading more and more over the night, until finally they won’t be visible at all to the naked eye. 

BLACK MAGIC JELLO SHOT.   berry blue and grape jell-o infused with both vodka and a fear inducing potation, served topped with black sugar.   within the hour, anyone who ingests this drink will begin to hallucinate their deepest fears. 

THE TERROR MAZE :

i’m still going to give you all a huge amount of room for interpretation, since i both don’t have the braincells to come up with an entire maze but i also think the above potions may spin things a bit for some characters, and i want you all to have some options. the below are a handful of room ideas which you can pull from, though please feel free to go a little wild.

LORD VOLDEMORT.   the actor playing the dark lord is really rather good, though please don’t seriously maim or, merlin forbid, kill him.

THE SPHINX.   it’s not a real one ( they couldn’t find one on short notice, they’ll tell you after completion ), but the mechanical sphinx in this room will present to you a riddle it considers unsolvable, and to proceed through the door past it, you must solve it. 

MUGGLE TERRORS.   a dentists office, a hall of mirrors, a room with a thousand dolls, another with a clown sitting in the middle who might just decide to stand up and follow you through the next few floors. 

POTIONS ROOM.   to advance ( much like the golden trio faced in their first year ), the right potion must be drunk - the wrong ones, while DESCRIBED as fatal, are nothing more than overly bitter alcohols. 

WALL OF FIRE.   to advance, you have to be brave enough to step through the flames obscuring the door from view. they won’t burn, but... how would you know? 

SEVERAL CRAWL SPACES.   somehow, the space past the doors will be only big enough for you to crawl. it makes no sense - the first time you encounter it, you’ll think that it might mean you’re near the end. really, they’re just there to throw you off your rhythm. 

DEMENTOR’S KISS.   whether its a ghoul transifgured to look like a dementor or whether it’s actually one of those beasts ( kidnapped from the ‘reserve’ the ministry has placed them on since their azkaban removal ) is impossible to say, but one of the very last rooms one may encounter contains something that looks incredibly similar to one of these terrifying beings, and you know what you have to do... 

[jones-friend]

They go with maple syrup, marshmallows, many things that should NOT work with potates

This fucker is from Mars or Venus and you can’t convince me otherwise

Sweet potatoes are from another planet. Those fuckers are NOT natural

[theshedkimberley]

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[p4creations-blog]

Now before any taters out there throw potatoes at me, hear me out. What's a meal without dessert? 

That's what I thought. Chocolate Mashed Potato Truffles my lovelies. As we all enjoy the potato for side dishes, breakfast, lunch and dinner; why not add dessert? Never judge a book by its cover~ 

1 Cup Mashed Potato 1 Tb butter (margarine is a disgrace) 1 Tb milk 2 Tbs honey, you can sub agave or maple syrup (if Canadian only >:u) 1 Tb cocoa powder ¼ tsp vanilla extract 1 large bar dark chocolate (milk chocolate is for the weak) ¼ cup each of chopped pistachios or whatever toppings suit your fancy, chopped shaved almonds, shredded coconut. Choose wisely taters. 

Mix in butter and milk with warm potatoes. Don't use cold potatoes! Melt in the butter (Not Margarine!) and mix it in, along with the milk. Set a wire mesh sieve over a large bowl and, working in batches, push your potatoes through the sieve with a rubber spatula or spoon. Don't use your hands... trust me... This can seem a bit labor intensive, but it’ll give you ultra fine and fluffy potaters. Mix honey, cocoa, and vanilla into the potatoes. Go ahead and taste, adding more honey or vanilla as needed or syrup :3 Form potato dough into teaspoon sized balls and set on a cookie sheet. PREPARE BATTLE STATION by putting your topping ingredients (I'm not repeating myself) in small bowls or big bowls I can't stop you. Using the double boiler method or the microwave, melt the dark chocolate until a little more than half is melted, then stir to melt the rest with a fork not your finger... Set a potato ball on a fork and dunk it in chocolate. Let the excess run off... you don't want runny truffles. Roll it into one of your topping bowls. Spoon toppings over the chocolate to give you're truffles flare! Then transfer back to your cookie sheet. Continue until all of your truffles are coated, then sacrifice them to freezer for 5 minutes to harden. Eat or just look at them. 

 ~ Sweet Potato

[prush2000]

Quick and easy side dish. Sautéed Sweet potato slices in a delicious Maple flavored sauce are irresistibly scrumtious!

Serves 4 Increase ingredients proportionately to serve more people

Ingredients: 2 large Sweet Potatoes Peeled and cut into slices 6 Tbls Butter (4 Tbls melted, 2 Tbls reserved for skillet) 4 Tbls Brown Sugar 3 Tbls Honey ( add more if needed) 2 tsp ground Nutmeg ¼ cup Pancake Syrup or Pure Maple Syrup  1 tsp Maple flavoring (omit if using Pure Maple Syrup)

Preparation:

Peel and Slice potatoes into ¼ inch slices

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Place slices into a bowl and sprinkle with the Brown Sugar, then add the Honey and melted butter and stir to coast the slices. Let marinate for at least 15 minutes.

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Melt remaining butter in skillet over medium heat and then add the syrup and maple flavoring and stir until mixed well and sizzling. Add the sweet potatoes and scrape the marinade out into the skillet too.

Stir the potates around in the skillet to coat in the mixture. Keep all the potato slices in a single layer in the skillet for optimum cooking and flavor. Cover the skillet and simmer, stirring frequently for approx. 10 minutes, but just until the potatoes are cooked through and soft when tested with a fork.

  Scrape the potatoes and the sauce out into a serving bowl and serve

Enjoy!!

  Sautéed Sweet Potato slices in Maple Sauce Quick and easy side dish. Sautéed Sweet potato slices in a delicious Maple flavored sauce are…

[thepenguisalive7]

We don’t talk anymore

Maple and Saph used to be best friends, maybe a little more, until an incident poisoned their relationship with each other. 

Nowadays, whenever they come across each other, they just try to pretend they don’t know each other. 

Not that Blank is aware of.