Fat certianly does taste good!

Fried chicken breasts

We LOVE Yams!!
These turned out really good...
I cut them up, boiled them until they were soft, but not quite mash-able
drained the water and put them back on the stove 

added a little butter and brown sugar 

cooked them a couple minutes more so the sugar stuck

corn with butter and cream cheese!
my Mom had this in a restaurant once and started making it at home
and Lee LOVED it
I don't like corn that much... but cream cheese and butter make everything taste good!! 

In college I was telling a professor I had about something I had cooked (when I had my first apartment with some friends and we were coming up with meals all the time...) and I told her I made the very best mashed potatoes by using heavy whipping cream instead of just milk... and she looked a little taken back and said "well, fat certainly does taste good!"  hahahahaha so the girls I lived with and I started saying this all the time about everything we'd eat! aaaahhhh the precious days we spent living in a barn :)
We lived in a converted barn, turned awesome apartment!  It was part of a bed and breakfast.

We lived on the bottom right hand side. 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, giant kitchen, cozy little living room.... :)

we had a huge yard with a gazebo!!
we had the best labor day picnic here....

the 4 of us at our labor day picnic!

 I miss these girls so much!!
we all got married this past summer....
our apartment was WEDDING central our senior year of college!

my friend Tiffany has "Barn life Wednesdays" on her blog, it's so cute! and made me miss our barn :(

There IS a difference between sweet potatoes and yams!

On Friday I got the chance to go downtown St. George's and go to the local market! I was so excited to see everything they had and the people.
I bought what I thought to be sweet potatoes... but once I got them home and cut them open I realized they were white inside... so we googled it and found out that they are actually yams.  They grow yams in South America, the Caribbean, and Africa.  They are white-ish in color, a bit dryer than sweet potatoes, and a lot sweeter!  I microwaved them just like you would a baked potato and we didn't even add brown sugar, just butter, they were that sweet!! and hopefully just as nutritious.... but I wonder if they are because they are white ? they say that the brighter the color the better for you things are.... hmm.