primitives describe simple winter snack

[franksolich]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/115738628

Oh my.

TreasonousBastard (22,542 posts)    Mon Feb 3, 2014, 10:51 PM

Ridiculously simple winter comfy snack...

one sweet potato-- peeled, cut up, and sitting in a little hot water until soft. Add some cinnamon, maybe some butter and whatever else you feel like. And maybe some brown sugar, but that could be overkill.
 
One potato masher working its magic until properly mashed.

Add walnuts, almonds, or any other nuts you have around as the last of the water cooks off.
 
And some maple syrup stirred in just before serving.

Tiny marshmallows are optional.

replacement sweeteners and syrups permissible to lower carb count if necessary.

Nothing revolutionary or even a little new here, just that it's so quick and easy. And very tasty.

Okay, this proves it.

I've been sure for a while now the cooking and baking primitives have been taunting us, posting faux recipes for horribly inedible foods.

Surely no one human could possibly put this down.

Oscarmonster13 (139 posts)    Mon Feb 3, 2014, 11:02 PM

1. mmm!

will have to try...need some REAL maple syrup though!

Yeah.

The cooking and baking primitives are teasing us.

KC (1,907 posts)    Tue Feb 4, 2014, 03:37 AM

2. Sounds

Good. So you aren't boiling the sweet potato?

But you drain the water before adding the cinnamon, etc right?

I love sweet potatoes and usually just bake them in the oven or use the microwave if in a hurry. They're great with just a little butter or heck I like them plain too.

^^^apparently one primitive who's not in on the gag.

japple (4,347 posts)    Tue Feb 4, 2014, 09:32 AM

3. I love maple sugar for sweet potatoes. I also like to add orange peel

and a bit of orange juice. And BUTTER, of course. Good, good, good!

Okay, that confirms it.

The cooking and baking primitives are deliberately posting ridiculous recipes and suggestions to get our goat, hoping we try them.

[jb2u11]

Why don't we have our own cooking and baking thread?  

Sorry, I just realized we do have one

[franksolich]

Why don't we have our own cooking and baking thread?   

We have a forum here for that; it's listed and linked.

When the sparkling old dude signed up here to mole, I was thinking of ways and means to get him to become moderator of it, because he does know his cooking.

But having signed up, alas he chose not to mole.

[jb2u11]

wonder if the primitives read it?     Could suggest some recipes.......half teaspoon of arsenic, 1/4 cup rat poison....etc.  Perhaps a thread on anti freeze as a marinade.

[thundley4]

Take one large sweet potato, slice into 1/4 inch slices.  Place on cookie sheet in a single layer, sprinkle with cinnamon and bake at @350 degrees until crispy.

They make a great healthy snack treat for dogs.

[franksolich]

wonder if the primitives read it?  Could suggest some recipes.......half teaspoon of arsenic, 1/4 cup rat poison....etc.

No, the primitives don't read it.

Here, we have all these other wonderful forums, but the primitives come only to the DUmpster.

If they expanded their vistas beyond just the DUmpster, it'd widen their world, open their minds.

It's like if we just went to General Discussion and nowhere else on Skins's island; we'd miss out on a lot of good primitivity.

To make it even worse, the primitives are such narcissists that even in the DUmpster, they read only those threads that mention them; they don't pay any attention to other threads starring other primitives.

It's like as if franksolich just went to Skins's island to read about himself; I'd miss out on even more good inventory for the DUmpster.

Sometimes I suspect the primitives are scared of learning something new.

[jb2u11]

I suppose your right.  They're not a very intelligent people.

[franksolich]

They're not a very intelligent people.

In one way, that's kind of an understatement, but in another way, it's not quite true.

There's some cerebrality on Skins's island--I give you my good pal Manny, the "MannyGoldstein" primitive, Skippy, the "NYC_SKP" primitive, and that Aristus fellow who dominates the Lounge.  These guys have so much brainpower it has to be compacted into a dense mass, to fit inside their skulls.

However.

However.

However.

They're so bright they think they know everything, while Einstein once said that the smartest people in the world are those who have the most doubts, the most uncertainties, about things.

In fact, to Einstein (and others similarly cerebrally-blessed), having doubts about things is a sign of intelligence, not stupidity.

But these three hyper-IQed primitives have no doubts; they're not receptive to new ideas, new things, new people, because they think they know it all anyway.

In the end, an open mind always trumps intelligence.

[Karin]

I ABSOLUTELY LOATHE sweet potatoes.  Reading the OP's recipe made me feel quite nauseated.  I can't stand the thought of them, the look of them, their very existence.  If they were trying to do that on purpose to a caver, it worked. 

[JohnnyReb]

Only a democrat would think that was a simple recipe.

SIMPLE RECIPE: tear open package and eat.

[Skul]

I ABSOLUTELY LOATHE sweet potatoes.  Reading the OP's recipe made me feel quite nauseated.  I can't stand the thought of them, the look of them, their very existence.  If they were trying to do that on purpose to a caver, it worked. 

You can always swap out the sweet spuds with Brussels sprouts. 





 

[DumbAss Tanker]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/115738628
I've been sure for a while now the cooking and baking primitives have been taunting us, posting faux recipes for horribly inedible foods.
...
The cooking and baking primitives are deliberately posting ridiculous recipes and suggestions to get our goat, hoping we try them.

I have to agree.

[jb2u11]

In one way, that's kind of an understatement, but in another way, it's not quite true.

There's some cerebrality on Skins's island--I give you my good pal Manny, the "MannyGoldstein" primitive, Skippy, the "NYC_SKP" primitive, and that Aristus fellow who dominates the Lounge.  These guys have so much brainpower it has to be compacted into a dense mass, to fit inside their skulls.

However.

However.

However.

They're so bright they think they know everything, while Einstein once said that the smartest people in the world are those who have the most doubts, the most uncertainties, about things.

In fact, to Einstein (and others similarly cerebrally-blessed), having doubts about things is a sign of intelligence, not stupidity.

But these three hyper-IQed primitives have no doubts; they're not receptive to new ideas, new things, new people, because they think they know it all anyway.

In the end, an open mind always trumps intelligence.

Your right of course.  All of the liberals I have ever known (very few) are very one dimensional. Some are very intelligent in an area, but outside of that area have no clue and as a rule none of them have been people with simple "common sense"