Welcome zuisa!

I made some sweet potatoes recently that went over well-- baked in the oven until soft, skins removed, mashed with lime juice. Low fat and went well under fish.

For any ingredient you are stuck with, always look at epicurious, I'm pretty sure I found the idea there.

Welcome, zuisa!

My simple approach to sweet potatoes is to cut them into chunks, pour some orange juice over them and cook covered until they're soft (oven or stovetop).

hey, zuisa!

Come on in, the water's fine, and we're pretty nice.

ETA: and is the map right? Are you all the way over in north-of-Mongolia-land? Are you GENGHIS KHAN? (Because that would be really cool. Especially considering he's dead and all.)

ION, the painkillers have OMG helped with the side of my face and neck, and sleeping with the TMJ contraption is, indeed, possible. For a couple of hours at least, but I woke up with a bad earworm.

Um. I've just been awakened by a fire truck stopping outside my window. Firemen came into my building, but I haven't seen or heard anything beyond the loud engine and really bright lights.

Hello zusia!

And they're gone. No idea what that was about. I wish I'd been asleep for more than a hour, but I'm glad I didn't have to try to wrangle the cats for an evacuation.

That's much worse than an earworm, aurelia.

Hope someone just burned the breakfast popcorn.

My grandmother used to call the fire department sometimes when she needed help moving my quadraplegic grandfather (she had this manual sling lift thing, and sometimes he slipped), and they always came like it was a fire. She had to run and stop them from breaking the door down at least once.

YES I AM TAKING MY MOM TO HER FIRST ROCK CONCERT.

Awesome.

I like sweet potatoes without anything else sweet, either cut up and roasted or just baked, with salt.

Thank you for the welcome! And the map IS right! But I'm a bit east of Mongolia; it's actually northern China - city called Harbin.

Hi zuisa!