There were sweet potatoes in my CSA delivery last Friday, and that’s always a reason to bake sweet potato pie. On Saturday morning, right after breakfast, I peeled sweet potatoes and put them on the stove to boil. And since my kitchen is far from the living room, I forgot about it and went to Jewel Osco to get a couple of things. It’s a very short trip, but I entirely forgot about potatoes and didn’t even reduce the heat. When I returned, I smelled burn :).
Most of the potatoes were salvageable, but since all the water evaporated, they became salty instead of slightly salty :). Also, the saucepan was ruined. I put some effort into cleaning it, but it was not worth it!
I still wanted to make a sweet potato pie, and I remembered that I have one more large sweet potato from the previous delivery, so I took another saucepan, peeled this potato and put it to boil without any salt, hoping that I could mix the two ,and the mixture will be just slightly salted. Guess what happened? I forgot about it again!!!
Once again (and I didn’t leave the house that time), I only realized what I’d done when I smelled burning coming from the kitchen!!! One more saucepan ruined!
At the end, I made a sweet potatoe pie! And I bought a new saucepad, which matches my kitchen color:)
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