Sweet Potato Souffle

Thanksgiving is one of my very favorite holidays. No gifts to buy, very little (if any) decorating to do, and the only real expectation in my family has always been just good food, good wine, and maybe a movie or a walk towards the end of the evening. There are a few foods that really say Thanksgiving to me (or that represent Thanksgiving – I haven’t yet gotten to the point where the food actually talks to me. Yet). Those foods are turkey, stuffing, and sweet potatoes.

Now, we have a ton of potatoes in Washington. Red, yellow, white, blue, purple… there are potatoes everywhere. But sweet potatoes are just not something you see at the farmers market on your everyday Saturday. Lucky for us though, all of that oppressively hot weather we had this summer gave us one incredible benefit this year – a halfway decent sweet potato crop. We’ve been getting sweet potatoes in our CSA box for a couple of weeks now, but we have heard rumors that you might see them at the Alm Hill Gardens stand sometime in the next few weeks. We’ve also heard rumors that you can find them at the Bainbridge Island Farmers Market.

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