We all make mistakes …
- My Sweet Potato Pudding should look smooth not like a bowl of spaghetti
As many of you know, I’ve been cooking for my family for over 50 years. However, most of those recipes are not written down. So, in order to share them with you I have to “test” them so that they can be photographed and the recipe can be written. My daughter Angela and I meet once a week to work on a “new” recipe and I love it because after everything is done … we eat! That’s the part my husband, Eddie, especially likes.
Well, yesterday the plan was to videotape me making my Sweet Potato Pudding recipe. Traditionally the sweet potatoes for this recipe are hand grated and it’s one of the reasons I don’t make it often, because it takes some work. However, I wanted to modernize it for you. Why hand grate when I could use a food processor instead? However, because I don’t have a food processor my daughter Diane let me borrow hers.
I was excited because this was going to reduce the prep time a lot! I “grated” the potatoes but they came out shredded, which is different. She gave me the wrong blade! The potatoes need to look almost pureed, but they looked more like mini spaghetti. Well, I decided to forge ahead and hope for the best. Nope, the pudding didn’t work out. It still tasted good, but texture was wrong. Back to the drawing board for this one.
Cooking is all about trial and error … we all make mistakes. If you try one of my recipes and it doesn’t work out quite how you expected, make sure to get in touch with me so I can help you out. However, I do my best to “test” all my recipes so that you’re in good hands. As for my modernized Sweet Potato Pudding? I know that using a food processor is the way to go …. I just need to use the right blade next time. Stay tuned …
Hello Fay and Angela,
Woops, that sweet potato pie did look a bit dodgey didnt it!!
I just wanted to tell you I have finally managed to source the goat meat I have been looking for since returning from Jamaica and have now found it home raised less than 10 miles from where I live. I was visiting my mum in Ely at the weekend and we attended a farmers market where guess what, there was a stall run by a couple who come originally from Keyna selling would you believe it, goat meat.
Hi Tracy,
Glad you’re well. Sounds like we better get a Curry Goat recipe up on the website soon for you to give a try.
Blessings, F & A
Used the same blade all the time, just give it more time in the food processor untill potato is the desired texture
Hi Fay, sometimes I ignore how it looks and concentrate on the taste – I am known as “the lab rat” in my family, I will try almost anything once, and I have seldom eaten anything I wouldn’t try again. Old styles recipes are brilliant, and yes they are seldom written down, but to have you perfect this for us is a godsend. Thank you
Kris, thank you for you kind words and encouragement. Blessings, Fay