SWEET POTATO MARSHMALLOWS

4 Large Sweet Potatoes 
2/3 Cup Brown Sugar, packed
2 Tablespoons Orange Juice
1 Teaspoon Orange Zest
1/2 Teaspoon Nutmet
2 Cups Sweetened Shredded Coconut
1/2 Cup Regular Sugar
1 Teaspoon Cinnamon
1 Bag Large Marshmallows

In a 350 oven, bake the potatoes until they are tender then peel them and mash them. Or if you are pressed for time just cook them on them on a stove (put water up to the top of them)until tender and then peel. Stir in brown sugar, orange juice, zest and nutmeg. In a separate bowl toss the coconut and the regular sugar and cinnamon. Press the mashed potatoes around each marshmallow and make a 2 or 3 inch ball. Then roll the balls in the coconut mixture and bake for 15 to 20 minutes. Watch as the expanding marshmallows may cause them to burst open.

CANDY MESS

My son called me Sunday and was asking me if I had ever made any Potato Candy. I told him no but I had heard of it. Potato Candy is nothing but Peanut Butter Roll the easy way.
So he began telling me how to make it. I got to laughing telling him there is no way you could use a 2lb. bag of powdered sugar in this. That is way to much sugar. So he told me to go try it. Now I just had a half of bag of sugar and I thought hay that will do. So I cooked me a "medium" potato as I said no way just one little small potato would work. We Ky. people like to make bigger batches of everything lol.
I took my potato, after it had cooked and took a hand potato masher and mashed it up then put it in a flat bowl to cool down and then started adding my powdered sugar. Ok, so what happened, the more sugar I added the more syrup I got.
Where was all of my sugar going to. lol. The potato began to turn to water and as I added the sugar it just got thinner and thinner. No wonder it called for a 2lb. bag of this sugar. So I just pitched it all in the garbage as guess what, I had put way to much potato in the bowl.
When it says a small potato it means just a tablespoon to start out with and that 2lb. bag of sugar, you will use it up quicker that you expect. You had better have 4 lbs. of sugar. lol.
 I told him to go to you tube and see how they were making it there. I learned real quick that one potato can sure go a long way in making candy.
 I have always made the cooked peanut butter roll and all that mixing with a hand mixer can sure get to you. No wonder they sell it for $10 to $12.00 a roll at these fund raisers. It is worth every penny of it.
 So I went today to get me some more powdered sugar but this time I got 4lbs. If I mess up I will have more sugar to add.
 But I am wondering just how many calories one bite of this candy will be. Just make sure you are not dieting as one piece will ruin a diet for two weeks. lol.
Look up a recipe for potato candy. It is real simple to make if you will follow directions and not be like me think I will just add just a little bit more of this and that......

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WON'T LAST LONG CAKE

This cake will bake up a brown color so don't think it is scorched or burnt. It is a very moist cake. You can leave out the cherries if you like.

11/3 Cup Vegetable Oil
3 Cups Sugar
1 Cup Crushed Pineapples with juice
2 Cups Mashed Bananas
1 Cup Chopped Pecans
3 Cups Flour
11/2 Teaspoons Vanilla Extract
2 Teaspoons Baking Soda
1 Teaspoon Cinnamon
1/2 Teaspoon Salt
1 Cup Maraschino Cherries (optional)

Spray and flour a 9 or 10 in. bunt pan. Preheat the oven to 350. Mix together all ings. Cut cherries in half and add them. Pour into the pan and bake for 11/2 hours on 350. Do not over bake. This is a very moist cake.

EASY PEANUT BUTTER FROSTING

1 Container Betty Crocker White Whipped Forsting
1/3 Cup Peanut Butter
1/3 Cup Marshmallow Cream or Fluff

In a large bowl combine the frosting, peanut butter and the fluff or marshmallow cream using a spatula to mix with. Spread frosting onto cooled cupcakes of your choice and place in the ref. to chill. It has a better taste when chilled.

POTATO SOUP WITH SMOKED SAUSAGE

1 Lb. Smoked Sausage cut into 1/4 in. slices 7 Medium Potatoes (peeled and cut in large chunks)
1 Medium Onion, chopped
2 Tablespoons Butter or Marg.
4 Chicken Bouillon Cubes
1 Lb. Coby-Jack Cheese, shredded
1 Small Can Evaporated Milk, may need more
2 Tablespoons Flour or Cornstarch
Salt and Pepper to taste

In a medium skillet melt the butter on low. Add the onion and cook until it is translucent. In a large pot add the potatoes and enough water to cook them. Put the water over top of them and then add in the onion. Add the salt and pepper and bouillon cubes. Bring all this to a boil and cook on medium heat for 25 minutes. The potatoes should fall apart. Add the smoked sausage and cook for 7 more minutes. Add the cheese and let cook until the cheese is melted.(About 4 minutes)  Stir ever now and then. Next add the evaporated milk and  stir again and then take some of the soup and put in a small bowl. Add the flour or cornstarch to this and stir good so it will not be lumpy. Add this back into the potato mixture and cook for 3 minutes more. Serve with cornbread or hot rolls or crackers.

ATTACTED BY A LOCUST AT SAM'S

Now we have all heard of locust bugs or as the city people call them cicads. We here them at night when they come out around ever 7 years. They will drive you crazy with the noise at night.
Now here my son calls and tells me how he got so embrassed at Sam's Club by being attacted by some of them.
 As you know you have to get your buggy and then show your card to the lady at the door.
So he was making a call on his cell and had gotten his buggy and shown his card when bamb something hit him.
 It flew on his shoulder and he tried to knock it off and it started squeeling. This scared him so he dropped his cell and started trying to get it off him.
 Now this is in Nashville and the Sam's down there is always full. It would come back and start squeeling again. lol.
The lady at the door along with other people were having a ball laughing. He did not know what they were.
 So she told him it was a locust. So they finally flew away and he went on in shopping. The lady told him he was not the only one to be attacted by them. Never hurt him tho.
So he was over in the food section and bamb again here they came at him again. Squeeling again. People looking as he was jumping around trying to get it off again. He said he had never been so embarrassed.
Now why would a locust want to go to Sam's . They sure don't have a card to shop so they mut have  smelled the samples and was hungry and just had to have some of that good free food. lol.
 They are supposed to be in the woods not out in the city. I guess this just goes to show they can be everywhere.
I know him, he gets so scared as he is allergic to bees and wasps and it had to scare him as he was afraid he would get stung. I don't know if they bite or not. I told him it must have been his cologne he had on. lol.