This helpful animated short created by Eva Hill explains the difference between a Sweet Potato and a Yam.
Enjoy!
When you go to buy potatoes you generally just have to pick a color or a name, because whether they’re red, russet or fingerling they’re all called potatoes in the end.
But their tuberous root cousins are named sweet potatoes and yams even though they seem to be as similar to each other as two different kinds of potatoes. So what’s in a name?
Can you ever have too much mashed potatoes? Probably not, but since we aren’t one to assume, here’s a scalable formula that helps you figure out how to make mashed potatoes for a party of one all the way up to a table of 12.
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Get fancy with added garlic, herbs, and cheese at your own discretion. This formula is based on one serving. Multiply the potatoes, milk, and cream by the number of people you want to serve to scale up.
