‘In the Kitchen with Eartha & Angeles’ is a series on what I imagine it would be like to cook with my Black and Filipino grandmothers, neither of whom I actually knew.
My family always has some kind of sweet potato dish on our holiday table. We love a starchy side in general, so there are usually a few different potato options. My sister-in-law and I tag team on the spuds; sometimes it’s whipped sweet potatoes or a cheesy gratin, and we always have my stepdad’s favorite sweet potato casserole with crunchy brown sugar pecans. For me, nothing beats a side of candied yams. I love them hot out of the oven or at room temperature and especially with a little chill on ’em because that’s when they taste most like a cold slice of pie.
Did you know 99.8 percent of all “candied yam” recipes actually use sweet potatoes? Thanks to an Instagram info-meme, I learned that sweet potatoes and yams are not the same thing, even though the terms are sometimes used interchangeably in recipes. I won’t go into the…
