Thursday, April 3, 2025

Rain's Thursday Art and Dinner Date - Clouds and Purple Sweet Potato Mash

Welcome to Rain's Thursday Art and Dinner Date's 'Clouds' theme. Here is my ACEO (2 1/2" x 3 1/2").


 For the Dinner Date, I made a purple sweet potato mash using Japanese sweet potatoes.

1/2 tsp pepper

1/2 tsp salt

1 tsp dried thyme

2-3 tbs maple syrup

1/2 c milk

4 tbs butter

3 medium Japanese sweet potatoes

Peel and boil the potatoes (peeled and cut up)  in a tablespoon of salt for 15 minutes until softened.  Drain and mash.  Season with butter, milk, salt, pepper, thyme, maple syrup.

31 comments:

Veronica Lee said...

Love your take on the 'Clouds' theme.
And that purple sweet potato mash looks amazing😋

Iris Flavia said...

Fun Yum!

roentare said...

Marshmallow cloud

Kelly Steel said...

Thanks for the sweet potato mash recipe. I'll try it.

Lucimar da Silva Moreira said...

Christine linda a sua arte, adoro purê de batata essa aí está deliciosa, bjs.

Ivy's Closet said...

Lovely clouds and the dish looks tasty 💕💗💕

My name is Erika. said...

These sweet potatoes are not so orange as the ones I can find. Do they taste like the orange sweet potatoes? Well yams, right?

CheerfulMonk said...

😊❤️

Anne Hagman-Niilola said...

Awesome art!

Angie's Recipes said...

Thought it would be purple?

Gillena Cox said...

NEVER SEEN PURPLE SWEET POTATOES
HAPPY THURSDAY

MUCH🤍LOVE

Lisabella Russo said...

What lovely clouds and the dish looks delicious!

Martha Jane Orlando said...

Your cloud drawing is lovely, Christine. Blessings!

marina said...

Lovely clouds on your ACEO!!!!! And mashed potatoes looks and sounds inviting to me.

Mary Kirkland said...

Love the clouds.

Adam said...

Nice ☁️ 🎨

Anonymous said...

Lovely fluffy clouds!! I have to try thyme in mashed potatoes next time. Thanks so much for the idea.

-Soma

Authors with Advice said...

Lovely artwork and thanks for the recipe.

Wanda said...

Your clouds are lovely....we have a sky full today!! I would love your sweet potato mash!! Yum.

Lowcarb team member said...

I do like your clouds.
Happy Thursday.

All the best Jan

J.P. Alexander said...

Bella pintura. Gracias por la receta. Te mando un beso.

Romance Reader said...

Like the clouds. Awesome artwork.

Tom said...

...keep looking up at the beautiful sky.

Tanza Erlambang said...

pretty painting and delicious food.... yummy

https://linsartyblobs.blogspot.com said...

I've not seen purple sweet potatoes.

Carol said...

Love the clouds. I just opened an Etsy shop for my granddoll to sell her art at. It is called Creativve Chaos if you are interested in looking at it. She's young and learning so we don't have much yet, but she is working on more over the weekend.

Ananka said...

Nice art and nice dinner :-D

sandy said...

wow you are quite the cook. You try so many different things.

Andrea @ From The Sol said...

That's how the clouds look when looking out of an airplane window in flight. Fluffy, puffy and white ... at least one hopes. The dark clouds could mean a bumpy ride :( It is starting to feel like Spring ... a little warm, then a little cold, then a little rain and, believe it or not, tomorrow we are supposed to get a little snow. What is it we all love about Spring? I love sweet potatoes and I am looking for the purple in yours ... is it me or are your purple potatoes really whitish yellow : ) ?

Andrea @ From, the Sol

Christine said...

Andrea the skin is purple I should've posted a photo of the outside.

DeniseinVA said...

Very nice cloud them art and your recipe looks delicious!