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I dont know what you are talking about with all this foreign food.

Oh dear JC Turner thread looks like hard work, glad I did'nt carry on with it

Oh I do hate these check your inbox messages too, some poor bloke is going to have a long lost child turning up on his doorstep without warning lol

ja...x

I have a page from a women's magazine from some years ago framed and used to have it hanging in my kitchen, before I went all open-plan.

It's an ad, likely Kraft, if I recall.

The dish is called Berry Mallow Yam Bake. Sounds like you're familiar with it, Sylvia. ;) I'd never heard of marshmallows and "yams". I can't stand marshmallows at the best of times. The photo that accompanied the recipe about made me gag. I'm not sure how, but it ended up looking like it had weiners in it ...

I still don't understand the desire to tart up a veg with brown sugar. Overdoing it, to me.

Now, who wants my gramma's recipe for puke salad?? Yummmm. I shall try again to find lemon or lime sugarless jelly powder when I'm there tomorrow so I can make one. No.1 keeps assuring me it's one of the many things the close grocery store has decided not to bother stocking any more.

but one is the orange fleshed and skinned, and the other is brownish fleshed and skinned .


on this side, the orange is a sweet potato, and the brownish is a yam


I also googled and found this:-

The sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas) is a dicotyledonous plant that belongs to the family Convolvulaceae.

The sweet potato is botanically very distinct from the other vegetable called a yam, which is native to Africa and Asia and belongs to the monocot family Dioscoreaceae. To prevent confusion, the United States Department of Agriculture requires that sweet potatoes labeled as "yams" also be labeled as "sweet potatoes".[1]


that last sentence doesn't help one little bit!



Candied sweet potatoes are a side dish consisting mainly of sweet potatoes prepared with brown sugar, marshmallows, maple syrup, molasses, orange juice, marron glacé, or other sweet ingredients. Often served in America on Thanksgiving, this dish represents traditional American cooking and of that prepared with the indigenous peoples of the Americas when European American settlers first arrived.

I've usually had this with the sweet potatoes mashed, put in a casserole, topped with meringue or marshmallows, and then baked again.

I hate this version!!


we make a candied sweet potato, with slices of sweet potaotes baked in the oven in a liquid consisting of orange juice, a little sugar, cinnamon, and a few dollops of margarine (preferably butter of course, but not when I have to eat it)


In New Zealand, Māori traditionally cook their kūmara in hāngi (earth ovens). Rocks are placed on a fire in a large hole. When the fire dies out, kūmara and other food are wrapped in leaves and placed on the hot rocks, then covered with earth. The kūmara is dug up again several hours later. The resulting food is very soft and tender, as though steamed.

I've had kumara baked in a hangi, and it was delicious!! I tried to copy it here by baking in the oven ........ it wasn't bad!


s
xxx

Southern Yankee????
Geez, I think OH is still getting over being called a "Yankee" by a waitress in New Orleans.

(Polite reminder to JC that I was born and did a lot of other things in "southern" Canada before that NYer swept me off my rented bowling shoes.)

I knew that about the wax/pie pan.(maybe)

Maureen

http://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/life/botany/yam-info.htm

picture there

I was right:

Yam, the name of a climbing vine and its edible tuberous roots. There are more than 500 species, most of them found in tropical and subtropical regions. Yams are grown in deep, well-drained soil. The tuberous roots weigh up to 30 pounds (14 kg) and are **rich in carbohydrates**. They are eaten boiled, fried, or roasted. They are also ground into flour. Some species are used as livestock feed, others are grown as ornamentals. One species yields a drug that is used in some oral contraceptives. The word "yam" is often used to refer to the sweet potato, a similar but unrelated plant.

Yam is some southern yankee term for a sweet potato. (I'll bet our Englisher cousins here don't say it.) Especially with brown sugar on (yeh-ech, I say now). But yes, that's what they were called in my gramma's household. Nobody says that anymore, do they?

A real yam is an ugly hairy inedible-looking hunk of root stuff native to the Caribbean-ish. I've never tried to do anything with one of them ... some of that ... and I'm sure it's a rather carbolicious stuff, so I don't need to be doing.

Glad to see the yankeeness counteracted with 5-pin bowling! The only kind. I tried 10-pin in Iowa once, and about blew the women's record for the alley out of the water. If you're reasonably good at 5-pin, a game that takes actual skill, 10-pin is like shooting the proverbial whatsits in a barrel. Fish.

Of course, given cultural imperialism and all, 10-pin is spreading across this land.

MNY -- I did say oven the thing for *a minute*. Needed I add "on a pie plate"?

I'll have to check when I shop for a bunch of on-sale lean burger tomorrow and see whether they're waxing them again for the winter.

And who started calling sweet potatoes "yams" in the first place?

Googled and confused.
But ,Sylvia-if you make anything involving one of these tubers in a muffin form I'll have to get up earlier than SOME other people.
Best,
Maureen

and then which is a yam and which is a sweet potato?

OK. Let's see if I've managed this. And no one wants bleeping booger as a collective. A booger of rutas.

Turnips aren't really turnips? My version being the waxed bowling balls {5 pin} that need a hammer and a wide screwdriver to get semi-near what you want. THEY are rutabagas?And those little white/purple thingies are turnips?

Darn.
Maureen

PS -Not certain about the cooking tip re :melting the wax. I hate using the word "oops" in the kitchen.

Well the plural, of course, is rutabooga.

Swede in Lotusland. It's those British pretentions, I think.

We've actually just always called 'em turnips in my family. But when you go shopping for them, you have to call them rutabagas, because turnips are the expensive little white boogers.

Mind you, when I asked a couple of months ago at the fancy far store I shop at when I visit the BFF, for rutagabas ... blank stare ... you know, the turnips with the wax on them ... that got me the answer. Right there, only they're not putting wax on them any more.

I wonder whether that was just for the summer. Just when I'd perfected how to peel the waxed things without getting wax all over the living room. Wait until you're ovening something, and shove it in the oven for a minute, and it melts the wax, then peel it.

I still say a great big sweet potato you want to cut into 3/4 inch cubes for hash is harder. Turnip you just have to cut into big chunks and then boil the * out of.

Holy Rutabaga! (I'm not trying for the plural)...

Look at that:
Janey wrote-
"I have *always* had problems with that moronic passenger search page. For me, it loads only as far down as the top half of the Sex:Any etc line under the passengers-travelling-with boxes. I have to click in one of the boxes and hit Enter to do a search, because the page won't load to the Search button."
.............................
Same problem...same result.(today) It's almost like having a "magical healing". Hey,I got accustomed to that! Hit enter and hope what you've managed to put in made sense. Now it's way too easy. grin.


Maureen

Something not right about that father one fans dont you think?

ja...x

Your right JC,I kept getting not all the page up to click on search button thing,but I thought that was me ,being not so brill on the puter,but now I know its not just me I shall have even more to say to them "in person" on Monday..


If I can get every other image ,page transcript up on FMP with what I have it should do that one as well..yes?
Or am I missing something here.

Going now as I am getting ratty that I cant explain properly.

IT IS ONLY THAT PAGE I AM HAVING TROUBLE WITH.

If it is my fault then I would have thought I would be having trouble with ALL of FMP...

Dont know if relevant or not - but Adobe /Flash gave me an auto update today

Have you checked you have up to date copy of Adobe


Renes

I have *always* had problems with that moronic passenger search page. For me, it loads only as far down as the top half of the Sex:Any etc line under the passengers-travelling-with boxes. I have to click in one of the boxes and hit Enter to do a search, because the page won't load to the Search button.

And as I speak, I load the page on the other monitor ... and would you believe it, it has now loaded completely, to where I can see the Clear and Search buttons under that Sex:Any line, and all the way down to the "about us" and copyright lines at the bottom.

So FMP has done something, and don't let them tell you they haven't. I always figured it was some fool javascript *-up that *ed it up in the past. I can't guess what they've done now, but it is definitely something.

Try unblocking some script though if you like and see whether that does anything, if you're using something like NoScript.

Thanks LK and Renes

It suddenly went funny on me earlier this week,been using it for over a year now.

It wont even go there for me,just a white page with FMP logo on at the top.
I can get a every thing else on FMP but that,oh well back to screaming at FMP.
Think I will phone em on Monday as Im fed up with emails that they arent getting what Im saying,they sure will when I phone !

fans

I typed in Smith -in search boxes - got a list - clicked on first one - view image and saw a photo copy of any original Passenger List

Came straight in

Renes

I can get to here

Passenger lists leaving UK 1890-1960
First name(s):
Include variants Last name: *
Include variants
Sex: Any Female Male
Year of birth: +/- exact 1 year 2 years 5 years 10 years
Year of departure: From: To:

No one at the mo LK ,but I want to be able to use what I pay for when I want to search for someone. !

Can you get the search options up?

who do you want to find on passenger list?