30 Days Project

This is probably ill-advised considering my real projects include finally cleaning the basement, setting up the baby's room, and some travel where I might not have access to the internet. My goal will be to do one post per day where I discuss something useful I did or learned.

Where possible, I'll try to add photos or other corroboration.

First day is all about the pie I made. I got some organic yams over the long weekend with the intention of cooking them on the grill (still might). At some point yesterday, I thought it might be interesting to see how complicated a sweet potato pie recipe might be. Turns out it's not complicated at all. In fact, the only ingredient we didn't have was nutmeg.

So, I picked up some nutmeg and got to work. A few things I learned along the way:

1. I don't need a Chumby. Paper works just fine.
2. Reggae versions of Radiohead songs are an ideal cooking soundtrack.
3. Sweet potato pie is very much like pumpkin pie. (I guess I knew that but hadn't thought about it.)

Here are the final results:



I am convinced that I could have used a pound of tofu instead of sweet potato and it still would have been delicious. Sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, eggs, and milk do the leg work.