This was my first year ever growing sweet potatoes and everyone told me to harvest them when the plants start to die back. Well my plants were as green as ever when I looked over and noticed a mound of humongous sweet potatoes protruding from the ground!
So I'm going to cook this whopper!
Here it is split in half. It was no joke breaking into this thing and it took two knives!
Here's the skin:
And the flesh! Whoa!
I read online that there's no such thing as a too big sweet potato. I guess I'll find out. I'll follow up this post with the results, boiled and mashed for dinner.
UPDATE:
I made the boiled and mashed sweet potato into sweet potato casserole. I had so much that I filled up two casserole dishes! It was DELICIOUS!
I did, however, find one drawback to the size of the potato... it had some (not many!) woody parts. Occasionally I would have to spit out a woody thread into my napkin much like the gristle on a steak. I probably could've avoided that by inspecting it after I had added butter and milk and beat it with the hand beater. Lesson learned, I guess... but the flavor was EXCELLENT!
Thanks for this. I too am growing Sweet Potatoes for the first time, and I was worried I had left them in the ground too long. I was waiting for those darn leaves to turn yellow!
ReplyDeleteI was worried that the sweet potatoes I bought from a farmer this fall were too big. Your pic convinced me I have nothing to worry about. That thing was a monster!!! What a hoot.
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