Lifestyle: cooking: sweet potato vs yam
Learning to cook means, for me, constant self-tutoring. The tutor reflects about sweet potatoes vs yams.
To surprise the family, I made sweet potato pie a couple of weeks back. I used the occasion to experiment with sweet potato vs yam: I went to the grocery store and bought one of each. Then, using the same recipe, I made one pie with the yam, the other with the sweet potato.
It turns out that, likely, both the sweet potato and the yam were actually sweet potatoes. Yams, apparently, are not so common in supermarkets here; rather, they’re common in Africa and the Caribbean.
The visual difference between the sweet potato and the (so-labelled) yam I bought at the grocery store: the sweet potato was white, while the “yam” was orange. However, sweet potatoes can be either color.
So, very likely, I made two sweet potato pies. They turned out well:)
Source:
Jack of Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane, Campbell River, BC.