In our place, sweet potatoes are called sweet potatoes.
People who probably know me know that I like sweet potatoes. I never feel tired from childhood love to adulthood, from snacks to adulthood.
When I was a child, I had an iron pot at home, which was used to cook sweet potatoes. Some burnt places near the pot are the most fragrant and delicious. Sometimes too much water is put in, and sweet potatoes are still soaked in water when cooked. This kind of sweet potato is doomed to be unpalatable when cooked. It seems that nothing is simple, even cooking a sweet potato has its tricks! Too much water is not good for sweet potatoes, and too little water may burn the pot.
In winter, I like to pick a few smaller sweet potatoes and put them in the pot. When cooking dinner, I moved a small stool and put it next to the stove, waiting for the dinner to be cooked quickly, so that I could pick the sweet potato out of the grass ash pile under the pot. Some sweet potatoes are so small that they are roasted and eaten like small carbon balls, and even the yam meat has become carbon. This is a real baked sweet potato! Peel off the charred, thick, black skin, smoke inside, and chew at the risk of burning your mouth. After dinner, look in the mirror and smile at your bearded mouth.
One year, my mother planted 1200 sweet potato seedlings. Unfortunately, there was a flood that year and there was no harvest. It still hurts every time I think about it. Another year, my mother gave me a lot of sweet potatoes, saying that I would go home for Chinese New Year, but it was too cold that winter, and most of them were frozen. Eating a sweet potato is not easy.
Outside, every time I see a baked potato, I can't help but stop and buy one to eat.
Later, I liked baking, bought an oven, and baked sweet potatoes when I was free.
Not all sweet potatoes are suitable for baking.
The red-skinned sweet potato in my hometown is suitable for cooking, steaming or porridge, which makes me choke.
LG's yellow-skinned (white-skinned) sweet potato is delicious and sweet if it is dried and peeled like a fruit. This kind of baked food is similar to the baked sweet potato sold outside.
The most suitable potato I have ever eaten for baking is "52 Liang Zuo Honey Potato" bought at Duoer Manor. This variety is especially sweet, and it will ooze honey juice when baking, which is too attractive, but the price is a bit expensive. However, it is really super sweet, refreshing my understanding of sweet potatoes.
Another variety of Duoer Manor "Xiaoxiang Potato" is suitable for steaming. It has no gluten and flour, and even LG, who doesn't like sweet potatoes, says it's delicious.
Endless sweet potatoes, dried in the sun, are suitable for storage, porridge or steaming, and the taste will be worse. However, the dried sweet potato sold now has just the right humidity, good taste, chewy taste and sweet taste, which is the best as a snack, but unfortunately it can't be made.
The deepest memory of sweet potato is probably the cold winter in college. After the evening self-study, my boyfriend dragged me to the baked sweet potato stall outside the school and bought me four baked sweet potatoes. Just as we were pushing others to eat a few, my classmates saw me from a distance and smiled at us, as if to say, ha, I found it! So you two are in love! Now that I think about it, it seems that I haven't bought anything delicious except baked sweet potatoes, or I forgot, because none of them are as delicious as sweet potatoes.
A humble sweet potato has caused so many stories.