Made Mashed Sweet Potatoes for the first time yesterday- they were surprisingly easy to make and tasted better than I would have thought.

I also bought this package of marinated turkey cutlets - which were about $4 for on package that had two cutlets. Enough for 4 good sized servings. You just take them out of the package, put them in the oven as per instructions, and wait an hour- thats it and they are really good!

I served them w/ some white rice on the side (I personally like to put soy sauce on rice). Minute Rice has this awesome 'Rice in Bag' thing now- all you do it boil the water, put the bag of rice in (which has 2 servings in it) and wait 5 mins... that's it! I love it.

Anyway- here's the receipe...

Mashed Sweet Potatoes (anyone else have trouble spelling potato?):

2-3 sweet potatoes or 2 yams (they are the same thing for the most part, just different names) yams tend to be larger.

2 Tablespoon butter

1 teaspoon salt

1 teaspoon ground pepper

You will also need a steamer for this- sweet potatoes aren't like white potatoes and can't stand up to boiling well - plus you loose a lot of nutrients to the water when you boil them!

Steps:

Peel potatoes, cut into 1 inch cubes.

Steam cubes for 20mins or until fork tender.

Dump in bowl, add butter, salt and pepper.

Mix with potato masher or fork until smooth.

That's it! Makes about 4 servings.

Nothing else to do- unless you want to add some gravy for the turkey (and since you won't have turkey drippings to make fresh gravy I would just buy canned...).

Alton Brown had a variation of this receipe on Good Eats the other day- he added one minced chipotle pepper and a tablespoon of the adobe sauce it comes in to the mix.