THE YAM: a noble vegetable.

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so why is it only trotted out once a year (in the us anyway.) does anyone know of any good yam related recipes?

― jess, Friday, 23 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

new yamswers.

― jess, Friday, 23 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

we didn't have yams this year. nyah, nyah.

― Maria, Friday, 23 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The Yam is a great vegetable and should be treated like other tubers. ie mashed and served with butter. NO MARSHMALLOWS !

― anthony, Friday, 23 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

There is a song where you can 'do the yam'. That is all I know of this clearly wondrous vegetable.

― Bill, Friday, 23 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

mmmmm yams, roast yams. mmmmmmm

― Menelaus Darcy, Friday, 23 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Yam + marshmallow = ick!

― turner, Saturday, 24 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Yams, candied yams, etc. -- my mother's most hated food. I rather agree with her.

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 24 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

CANDIED YAMS ARE EVIL ! THEY ARE A SACRIELGE ON THE GRATE AND GLORIUS TUBER .

― anthonyeaston, Saturday, 24 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Candied yams are rather gross, but when treated as anthony suggested (mashed and w/butter) they are very good. And a lot more nutritious than a starchy old potatoe.

― Nicole, Sunday, 25 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

did you know 50% of all people eat less Yams than average?

― Mike Hanle y, Sunday, 25 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i yam wot i yam

― Andrew L, Sunday, 25 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Whose idea was it to put marshmallows on yams? I am *so* not down with this concept. Any tuber/squash side dish + sugar = Suzy blows chunks. I don't like squash, yams, sweet potatoes because of these things (exception: pumpkin pie and roasted pumpkin seeds). My mother does sweet potatoes with brown sugar and maybe it's a Proustian knee-jerk, but I just smell the sweet edge of the general anaesthetic gas I was given when I was four. AAAAAGH!

― suzy, Sunday, 25 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

honey-glazed roast parsnips = ambrosia IN nectar

there is no food that sugar fails to improve: discuss

i once saw some eat a chocolate-covered pilchard for a dare: they too blew chunks

― mark s, Sunday, 25 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Sugar would not improve prawns, unless it's the naturally occurring sugar in the coconut milk of the Thai curries I make. Or maybe complementy is the word I'm after.

I've become very savoury in appetite over the past few years...

― suzy, Sunday, 25 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I've become very savoury in appetite over the past few years...

Insert comment here. Nitsuh, where are you, you scalawag?

― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 25 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

there is no food that sugar fails to improve: discuss

you have put your sweet finger on the philosophical underpinning of (northern) soul food as far as i can make out. but it does not apply to cornbread. maybe the exception that proves the rule.

― Tracer Hand, Sunday, 25 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i think that sugarary foods and salty foods are vastly overrated. i read an article last week that said there was a huge corprate conspiracy to make food bland because complex foods are more difficult to package and distrubite. Its like the jackfruit pies that people in indoesia sell from carts. They are very popualr and very cheap and fairly complex in there flavours . But a subsidary of McDonalds recreated this as a packaged and much sweeter version. It was more ecpensive but they had this whole song and dance about taste and hygine and ended up making a fortune while sending the native peddlars to starve.

― anthonyeaston, Sunday, 25 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

two years pass...

I just steamed some yams and put butter and GINGER PRESERVES on top. I am usually anti-sweet with yams but this is quite nice.

― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 20:10 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm still not convinced that yams or sweet potatoes are fit for human consumption. But I'm clearly a fun-hater on this topic.

― j.lu (j.lu), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 20:24 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm kind of in between. I don't really like them that much, especially the texture, but I don't hate them either. But I'll eat the SHIT out of some sweet potato fries. Mmmm.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 20:28 (twenty-one years ago)

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