mom's sweet potato casserole

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4 sweet potatoes, 5 is okay (dad sized), white potatoes best.
1tbsp margarine or butter.
Crushed pineapple, smallest can
Marshmallows 1 bag small.
sprinkle cinnamon, 1tsp? sometimes nutmeg too. walnuts can also be good, pecans (do not roast), almonds. so there's a little crunch.


bake sweet potato first 40 minutes on 375 degrees. if you can poke it all the way through, it's cooked. you can boil it too, but it's a lot of water and not as good.

then mash it. peel it, and remove the edges because they can be stringy. then mash with a fork.

then put 1 tbsp of butter or margarine. then sprinkle cinnamon. Then drain liquid from crushed pineapple and mix in. Then nuts.

Put in a baking pan, marshmallow on top, and back in the oven to brown the marshmallow and blend the flavors together. Then 10-15 more minutes in the oven to evenly brown the marshmallow. BAKE, don't broil.

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baking a small bird:

lift the skin so you can stick 2 navel oranges (with peel) between skin and chicken. leftovers get put inside and on top of the legs. you can sit it in a moat of orange juice and white wine.

put sliced uncooked bacon on top of the bird so that it stays juicy and gets a smoked bacon flavor. sprinkle with salt and pepper and whatever other seasonings you'd like.

then bake 375 F for an hour or it depends on how big your bird is.

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