I am thankful for a lot of things, too many to list in the time between now and time to load the food into the truck and hit the road to dinner at my brother's house. Later, we'll have another dinner at my son's house.
I still have to bake the sweet potato casserole.
I'm a little worried about the sweet potato dumplings. I wrapped the sweet potatoes in dough and baked them yesterday. This morning, I made the yummy cream sauce to pour over them. This is not what the recipe said to do. The recipe said to pour the yummy cream sauce over the UNBAKED dumplings, sprinkle them with sugar and cinnamon, and THEN bake them.
I made this dish according to the recipe last week, when The Husband had to take a dish to the office Thanksgiving dinner. They were ok. I baked them on a sheet pan instead of in a casserole dish, and the wider pan left more of the dumpling tops sticking above the sauce, which worked out well. The cinnamon and sugar on the dumpling tops made a nice crust. But the parts that were below the sauce were a little gummy.
I can't decide whether to pour the sauce over the dumplings (which are now nestled together in a casserole dish) or heat the sauce and let folks pour it over the dumplings. The dumplings, by themselves, are kind of blah. I should have rolled the sweet potatoes in a cinnamon/sugar mixture before I wrapped them in dough. Without the sauce, they are just a sweet potato in a roll.
It would be nice to preserve the brown crust on the rolls, but I think I will just to ahead and pour the sauce over them, bake them, and re-heat them when it's time to eat.
Looking forward to today. After dinner with Son #1, we'll go across the street to Son #2's house. Granddaughter #1 is home from college.
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