I couldn't help but think about my Uncle Curtis today as I was baking his sweet potato pies. That guy knew his food, so if he said it was good, then I believed him. I started making them a few years ago when he posted his recipe and they are an absolute hit! In memory of my sweet uncle I'll post the recipe as he would have:
4 sweet potatoes
2 eggs
2/3 c evaporated milk
1 stick of butter
1/2 tsp nutmeg
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1c sugar
1 tsp lemon juice
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 frozen uncooked pie shell.
skin and boil sweet potatoes. Melt butter, beat eggs and milk into sweet potatoes and butter mixture. add sugar and remaining ingredients and pour into pie shell. It's supposed to make 1 pie, but I always find 4 sweet potatoes makes so much filling I end up doubling the other ingredients. Today I got 4 pies out of it and it smells like heaven in this house! I wish he was here to make them himself, but I hope the recipe lives on for those who want to try it:)
This will be my first Christmas since Kelly and I broke up...it was unexpected and for a couple that were very loving throughout our 4 years together, it got very ugly in the end. At this point, I don't even recognize him anymore and the chaos he left me with is both devastating to me and shocking. That being said, life is a roller coaster and you never know what's around the bend. I've reunited with my ex fiance Drew since Kelly left, and am now happily dating him and am looking forward to a happy Christmas. I've never been the kind of person that can't be single...in fact I quite like being single, but this just sort of happened naturally, so I'm glad to see where it takes us. Now for the bad news...It turns out Drew has cancer in his arm that he had neglected to get checked out for a couple of years and now it's to the point of being scary. He had surgery a couple of weeks ago where they tried removing the melanoma and took a massive skin graft off of his thigh. At a recent appointment he learned that the surgery wasn't as successful as we had hoped and they didn't remove all of the cancer. So now we wait and see what the doctors will recommend to be the best next step.
Phew, so there's the update. I'll try not to let so much time pass between posts from now on. Now that Kelly doesn't live here, I'll have more time to hang out at the computer and visit my blogger buds.
If you're interested in adopting a new blogger, a childhood friend of mine has recently joined the ranks. Her name is Nicole and I've added her to my list of favorites. Check her out at
http://storyofpresent.blogspot.com/
