I've never seen a stealth sweet potato, bon. I think your husband's hand fell into the wrong bin...or someone pulled a potato prank on him.

Just scratch one, you don't actually have to cut into it to see the color of the flesh.

Shouldn't sweet potatoes and regular potatoes smell different?

OK guys, since Hil threw a monkey wrench re: yams, I sliced one open. It's white. I'm gonna assume it's a common potato.

FTR it's pretty easy for Bob to have grabbed a bunch of the wrong potato without being tricked. You could be the best philosophical historian your dissertation adviser has ever seen and be frequently fooled by normal grocery store sign placement. It's A Thing.

So, food question. What's a good make-ahead dish for about 3 lbs of potatoes? eta: I think it'll be twice-baked

Any chance they are Japanese sweet potatoes? They are white inside.

So, food question. What's a good make-ahead dish for about 3 lbs of potatoes? eta: I think it'll be twice-baked

My go-to with spuds? Spanish tortilla! You'll need eggs, and anything else lying around the fridge you might throw into an omelet. (Cheese, ham, herbs, mushrooms etc.)

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Shameless pimping of my niece!

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Any chance they are Japanese sweet potatoes? They are white inside.

I don't think so, since those are usually purple outside.

My go-to with spuds? Spanish tortilla! You'll need eggs, and anything else lying around the fridge you might throw into an omelet. (Cheese, ham, herbs, mushrooms etc.)

Not great for make-ahead! Apparently with twice-baked you can stick em in the freezer and reheat easily. That's perfect, plus I can use up spinach, feta, green onions, goat cheese, all sorts of stuff in the fridge.

Twice-baked potatoes are one of my favorite things, bon. You could also do scalloped potatoes.

We have a shitload of leftover rice from Ben's birthday dinner last night, and I need some ideas for what to do with that.

bonny! Find someone with a button box--I'd send you my grandmother's, but I gave it to a friend who makes her living from her ebay store--or who collects or keeps old photographs --also given to the ebay cause. Hey, I figure anyone willing to pay for old buttons or old photos wants them and will use them more than me. And this way my friend gets to feed herself and her rescue animals.

Anyway, among your friends and contacts must be people who collect ephemera. You can make vignettes with one or two of your hankies and sell them on etsy. Old jewelry, giftwrap, gloves, hats, veiling--all things people collect now to make their own collages, and the hankies would find some owner to appreciate them.

I taught myself to unfailingly remove my makeup at the end of the day by taking the pillowcases my mom and grandmother had embroidered and crocheted and tatted edging laces for out of the cedar chest and putting them on my bed. I gave boatloads of crocheted doilies, antimacassars, and dresser scarves away when we moved--we're so not antimacassar people. But I still have glass towels my mom used, plus a couple she got from her older brother who worked for the railroad, that he filched from the dining car. They're wonderful for drying without leaving lint.