Sweet Potato and Butter Bean Soup

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Sweet potatoes as we know are a yam and I think they must be becoming more popular as a lot of the supermarkets stock them, and do you know I had them to-night instead of potatoes and I prefer tatties.
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Not a big fan of yams or sweet potatoes..there is a difference, or broad beans ..so 8)
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5siamese7 wrote:Sweet potatoes as we know are a yam and I think they must be becoming more popular as a lot of the supermarkets stock them, and do you know I had them to-night instead of potatoes and I prefer tatties.

Checked this out and found the following

Although yams and sweet potatoes are both angiosperms (flowering plants), they are not related botanically. Yams are a monocot (a plant having one embryonic seed leaf) and from the Dioscoreaceae or Yam family. Sweet Potatoes, often called ‘yams’, are a dicot (a plant having two embryonic seed leaves) and are from the Convolvulacea or morning glory family.

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That's interesting i'm no expert just heard folk on the tele calling them yams. However as you say every day is a school day.
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Both are quite popular here, especially at holiday times. I've never developed a taste for them though my family do,prefer plain tatties!
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Did the shopping for our men's kitchen today and bought ten sweet potatoes (6 Kilos) @ $2 a Kilo on special at Safeways - 90cents cheaper than Aldis. We're making the soup and an Indian dish. What other use would there be for buying Vindaloo Curry Paste ... hot :oops: hot :oops: hot :oops: Wife wont have any!
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Hughie wrote:Did the shopping for our men's kitchen today and bought ten sweet potatoes (6 Kilos) @ $2 a Kilo on special at Safeways - 90cents cheaper than Aldis. We're making the soup and an Indian dish. What other use would there be for buying Vindaloo Curry Paste ... hot :oops: hot :oops: hot :oops: Wife wont have any!
We're getting an Aldi's here, this week I think. Supposedly very good prices. Son made chicken curry with my box of hot curry paste, while it was tasty it wasn't hot...maybe I've Tabasco'd my taste buds away.. :wink:
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