Don’t Feed Your Leftover Yam Mini Mush’s To Your Bird!

Pictured above: a practical solution for the post-Christmas delemma: What’s to be done with the rest of these stupid mini marshmallows? Photo by Job Conger, Peter Pan Crunchy addict and Joe Biden supporter.

Even though I ate a tasty baked chicken for the big birthday dinner on the 25th, I went “whole hog,” so to speaq, with the trimmings which consisted exclusively of a can of candied yams topped with melting marshmallows.

“Tt’s Christmas time in the city.”“For years I’ve been getting by with the same brand of yams from the same Shop ‘n’ Save, swimming in their own sauce until gently ladled onto my plate and drenched with Imperial Margarine

“ta ta-da DA”

This year I decided to eshew the traditional frozen cauliflower veggie and go pro-radical eqstremist with just the yams and the added garnish of fluffy white “NATURALLY FAT FREE FOOD” as the package read. The minis may have been naturally fat, but they certainly were not free.

Uninitiated to the exciting world of corn starch, sugar and gelatin and other swell stuff, I was surpised when I discovered my first few hands full (handfulls if you live in the White House) had melted to invisibility, right into the candied, yammy-yummy broth heating on the stove. So that I might savor the visual element of the eagerly-anticipated glorious white-on-orange repast, I added three more hands full to the simmering ambrosia and watched it like a hungry hawk with a sweet beak.The results were fab, what else can I say? The combination not only made for some fine candied yams. The magma (not quite liquid; not quite solid) which remained in the pan was a nice dipping sauce for forks full (fork fulls if you live in Glenarm) of baked chicken. But like all good things, the feast ended too soon, and sure enough, the morning after, I realized I faced the long-ago-mentioned dilemma.I had almost half a package of these things, and eating them straight from the package seemed like eating granulated surgar by the spoonful. Solution? Give mon jar of strawberry preserves a rest over the holidays and subsitute the mini marshmallows that were not free. It worked!

Long story short: I’m still working my way through the rest of them and eating more peanut butter than usual to make it happen, but I’m happy with the result. I believe that if you have leftover mini’mallows in your pantry, and you give this a try, you will be as happy and full-filled as I.

Bon appetit!

Live long . . . . . . and proper.