>  > 4 liter (close to 1 gallon) pail of vanilla ice cream,
>  > I gave each kid one spoon each
>  ML> A great idea unless you had rabid children.
> They are not rabid but can be violent if sufficiently provoked, just
> like their parents.

Give them enough sugar and you deserve what you get.
The encouraging thing about your story is that the
kids exercised self-restraint.

>  ML> sweet potatoes.
>  ML> Note too that there are various sweetnesses; it's
>  ML> not for nothing that there's been selective breeding.
>  ML> I've had some that have been almost candy-sweet by
>  ML> the operation of their own genes.
> I have not encountered that in sweet potatoes but I have in corn and

The typical orange sweet that we get in the supermarket
is dessert-sweet and much improved by a pat or three of
salted butter for contrast. I'm told, though, that it's
still lower glycemic than anything you can do with a
regular potato.

Baked potato chips
categories: compromise, snack, starch
servings: 2

1 md potato
salt
Pam

Wash potato and slice thin; no need to peel. Soak in 
cool water for a while and then pat dry. Let dry 
further on a kitchen towel.

Oven at 450F at least. Spray Pam on a rimmed cookie 
sheet. Salt potato slices lightly on both sides and 
arrange in a single layer on sheet.

Bake 15 to 20 min depending on thinness of slices. 
Turn once halfway through the baking. Remove carefully 
when crisp and brownish. Season with herbs, Parmesan, 
or pepper if desired. Serve warm or cool.

Source: moi

> overly sweet corn is an abomination!   

To me Silver Queen is about as sweet as it should be; the
supersweet varieties I've had make other compromises, 
whether flavor or tenderness or something else. I would 
not be averse to a preternaturally sweet variety with a
sweet-corny flavor and tender kernels.

>  > Ice cream is good on apple pie. Cheddar is good on apple pie.
>  ML> Somehow I don't get so turned on.
> I'm not surprised by that. Consider apple pie where half the apples
> are replaced with either cherries or blueberries. That's a turn on
> for sure; it's so good. it's almost better than sex, Not quite
> though, just close.

We may be visiting Burt and Shirley at the beginning of
sour cherry season, and there's an Amish enclave on the way
between Penn Yan and Newark.

>       Title: Apple and Dried Cherry Cobbler with Buttermilk Biscuits

Interesting, potentially good.

>   1 1/2 c  Dried cherries

But quite costly.

>   Notes: Thanksgiving Special with Drew Nieporent of Nobu etc.
>   Recipe from: TVFN
>   Posted by Sue <suechef}

Aha. Explains the high budget.
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