Wednesday bit…
… yesterday, of course.
And what I have to offer today is this:
wow, it doesn't even photograph well
Not as traditionally “pretty” as some other things Mac has created for us to eat, I’ll agree… but once you’ve had a bite of this gooey brownish-orangish stuff, you’ll start to believe that the sweet potato is the most beautiful thing in the world… especially the way Mac makes them.
Mac is famous (you know, like, to me) for slow cooking sweet potatoes in a barely hot oven all day long, wrapped only in tin foil, to produce a deliciously soft, sweet and tender, fall-apart-in-your-mouth meal-in-itself. This time, however, he spiced it up a bit (no pun intended), by coating the sweet potato in a brown sugar/butter paste, accented with some spices (allspice and cloves, I think I recall?), before wrapping it in foil and slow cooking it in a barely hot oven all day. The result? Oh my god. The picture doesn’t do it justice. Even an on-time blog post wouldn’t do it justice. I could’ve spent all day picking the candied sweet potato juice off the bottom of the pan… is that weird?