Thanksgiving

So…last weekend was the annual all you can eat, turkey/ham/stuffing and sides extravaganza that is Thanksgiving at the Woodcocks.  My friend Sacha is a genuine American and so holds it every year.  This year she’s had the audacity to be in the US over the official one, but given that all attendees are non-American and didn’t want to miss out, having it early seemed the obvious solution.

We all took a dish along, prepared to a recipe supplied by Sacha, to exacting standards.  This seemed like a perfectly great idea until I had to carry half a tonne of sweet potatoes across London…I thought I was never going to be able to feel my arms again!!

Anyhow, here’s what I made, sounds wrong but it’s utterly amazingly tasty:

Sweet Potato Casserole with Marshmallows

Serves 10

8 sweet potatoes

1tbsp vanilla

3 tbsp sugar

½ stick of butter

¼ tsp cinnamon

½ tsp nutmeg

1/8 cup orange juice (a splash if you’re more of the Nigella school of thought/ don’t won any US measuring gear)

Marshmallows

• Peel and boil the sweet potatoes until cooked.
• Mash.
• Add in all the other ingredients except the marshmallows and mix.
• Grease a baking dish.
• Tip in ingredients and decorate with marshmallows on top.
• Cook until hot – the marshmallows should melt and toast…mmm…

This is before it went into the oven at Sacha’s…when it came out I was too busy eating to take pics…

Happy (Early) Thanksgiving!