Romantic dinners can be fast inexpensive and intimate. Food sometimes illuminates the flavor of a culture gone past. A culture during a time when we our ancestors were negroe, colored or just plain black. Our ethnic dishes accentuate our African American roots and ingredients of dexterity. Home made dishes from home grown heroes. Entrees, dinners and desserts that have coursed time and challenged assimilation. The recipes here on this site have been selected for their simplicity and detail. So enjoy and hopefully these will soon be your favorite dishes. Health food is great, but, every one needs a break now and then...

 

Sweet Potato Pie

Preparation Time: 25 Minutes
Cooking Time: 50-60 Minutes

Ingredients

• 3 medium sweet potatoes
• 2 deep dish pie Shells
• 1 cup white sugar
• 1 can sweetened condensed milk
• 3 eggs
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 stick butter
• 1 tablespoons nutmeg (to taste)
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Wash the potatoes, and boil them until soft enough to mash.

While potatoes are still hot, mix in your butter, sweetened condensed milk, sugar and all other ingredients except the eggs.

After mixing the aforementioned. Add your eggs. (Remember, it will have sort of a course texture but that is fine for sweet potato pies; the texture is not quite as smooth as mashed potatoes.)

Finally take ingredients and spoon into your pie shells.

Pre-heat your oven at 350 degrees. Bake pies about 50-60 minutes...you should be able to push on the pies lightly and they "should" spring back up.

You will know when they are done.