RECIPE: Rec: Dom Deluise's Mashed Sweet Potatoes

RECIPE:
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dawnnys

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In memory of what everyone says was a genuinely nice man:

3 pounds sweet potatoes, peeled and cut into chunks

1/2 stick butter

1 banana, sliced

1 orange, zested and juiced

1 cup chicken stock

1/2 cup brown sugar

1/2 teaspoon grated nutmeg

Salt and pepper

Boil potatoes until tender, drain and reserve. Return the pot to the stove top over medium heat. Add butter and bananas to the pot. Cook bananas 5 minutes and add the juice of 1 orange to the pot, reserve the zest. Allow the juice to cook out, 1 minute.

Add potatoes to the pot and the stock and sugar. Mash potatoes, banana, stock and sugar together until well combined. Season with nutmeg, salt, pepper and orange zest, to your taste. Mash to combine spices and serve.

 
My dad once wrote to him after making a recipe DD had made on TV. He wrote a lovely letter

back, included an autographed photo and an autographed copy of the cookbook, Dear dad kept the photo on the mantle with the family photos!

 
Dom and his wife, Carol Arthur were on the board of the Pearl S. Buck Foundation when I worked there

They sponsored many children through the foundation and were active with our special events. I was lucky enough to have lunch with them when the hosted an auction on Ms. Buck's property in Bucks County, PA.

At the auction I won the package he donated: an autographed script of "Fievel's American Tails", a copy of "Eat This, It'll Make You Feel Better", and a VHS tape of him cooking some of the dishes in the book, an autographed picture, and a couple of signed postcards of his artwork. (I'll post my favorite recipe, Mamma's Chicken, when I get home from work this afternoon.

He was funny, warm, and unassuming. Everybody he met was greeted like an old friend. He had a way of making you feel like you were the most important thing on his mind when you were talking with him. He and Carol were the nicest people in the world.

I never had the opportunity to talk with them after I left the Foundation but I will miss him.

 
thanks for sharing this.

I only know him from movies, and my favorite is his part in the Doris Day flick "The Glass Bottom Boat". When he eats that appetizer that is really a microphone, well, it cracks me up everytime.

 
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