All American Feast

Last week, our German housemates Bea and Nora made German food for supper. This week we Americans decided to reciprocate and treat them to an All-American Meal. The menu was as follows:

Sweet Potato Soup
Salad w/peppers, mushrooms, and cherry tomatoes
Baked Macaroni and Cheese
Fried Chicken
Bananas Foster

My contribution was the sweet potato soup. It turned out SO well!

Here's the recipe for anyone who is interested:

Sweet Potato Soup

6 lg. sweet potatoes
2 sm. containers plain yogurt
1 can chicken broth
1 tsp. nutmeg
1 lg. white onion
3 tbsp. butter
1 shot glass sherry

Cook sweet potatoes, either in oven or microwave. Scoop sweet potato meat of each potato and place in food processor. Turn into puree; add chicken broth and yogurt to mixture.

Separately saute chopped onion in butter until clear. Add sweet potato mix and onion in large pot and heat until bubbles form on side. Then simmer for about 20 minutes.

Add sherry and nutmeg and simmer for another 15 minutes. Serve warm and in small quantities; it is very rich.

I did a little less yogurt than recommended, added cinnamon in addition to the nutmeg, and stirred in a little cream along with the sherry. It was SO good. It probably would have been less chunky if I had a food processor or blender to puree it, but I had to mash it all wish a fork, so let's just say it had 'hardy' texture.

It was a tight fit with the 5 of us in the kitchen cooking at once. Everything turned out fantastic! It was one of the best meals I have had since being here.

This weekend I'm off to Belfast to see my friend Allyson from high school. Still have a lot of planning to do for the London trip and our weekend trips in November!