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from Cheri:
Potatoes and their cousins the sweet potato or yam are a staple
at most Thanksgiving. In fact, I know some people who prefer mashed
potatoes and gravy to turkey.
If you want to keep it basic, we've got the recipe for the best
ever mashed potatoes, according to the folks at the Idaho Potato
Commission, and they KNOW potatoes. They even shared a fat free
version for those who insist on being good, even on Thanksgiving.
If you want to get exotic, try added garlic or artichokes. The
spectacular Potatoes Duchesse is a fancy version of mashed.
Of course, you don't have to mash your potatoes at all. Try the
geometric Lemon Potato Fans or the baby potatoes with garlic and
rosemary.
Some people love potatoes so much that Thanksgiving just isn't
Thanksgiving unless they have potatoes AND Sweet Potatoes.
While there is technically a difference between yams and sweet
potatoes -- yams are not widely grown nor available in the US (they
are popular in South and Central America, and parts of Asia and
Africa ), the terms are used more or less interchangeably in this
country. For instance, often when you buy canned yams, you are really
getting sweet potatoes.
Conveniently, even thought these two vegetables are from completely
different plants, they can be used interchangeably in recipes.
For us in the United States, good news about the availability of
sweet potatoes over yams is that the potatoes are richer in vitamins
A and C.
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