/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>7810994
Desserts with sweet potatoes isn't just a U.S. thing. In the U.S. they're used for sweet potato pie (think pumpkin pie) in terms of sweets. I think I've had some sort of cake made of purple sweet potatoes which was Hispanic in origin and there's a type of Hong Kong dessert soup that uses them and ginger.

>>7812449
Sweet potato fries are great when done well, but most places make them soggy, which sucks.

>>7814741
>'tatos
End yourself

>>7814879
No, that's a sweet potato. Specifically, that's a soft sweet potato (gets soft when cooked, as opposed to staying firm, which is what makes one hard). Soft sweet potatoes are labelled as "yams" in America since the African slaves likened some sweet potatoes to the yams of Africa and the name stuck and was used to differentiate between a hard sweet potato (still known as sweet potatoes) and soft sweet potatoes (now known as yams). Pic related.

>>6045577
I'm curious because American terminology is a bit weird, by "real yams" do you mean like orange sweet potato or do you mean picture related?