Monthly Archives: November 2016

Mama’s Sweet Potato Pie Recipe

The holiday season is just not complete without my mom’s sweet potato pie.  I have actually eaten so much of it that I threw up.  Seriously, I love the taste.  I tease my grown children telling them it is a vegetable pie.  I am not real big on vegetables so it is funny to us.

I make a deep dish pie so this is the recipe for just one pie.  I imagine the filling is enough for two regular sized crust as my pie is always filled to the brim.

First, you need to sit a stick of butter out to get to room temperature.  You are going to slice the butter into pieces when you add it to the mixture.

I drain a 29 ounce can of sweet potatoes and put in large bowl.  Go ahead and mush them up.

It doesn’t really matter what order you put the items in so I am going to just list them.

Drained 29 ounce of sweet potato

1/3 cup brown sugar

1/3 cup granulated sugar

1 14 ounce can of sweetened condensed milk

2 eggs

1/2 tsp salt

2 tsp pumpkin pie spice (or to taste)

Bake for 55 minutes if you are baking two regular sized pie crust or 65 minutes if a deep dish pie.  When your pie doesn’t jiggle in the center it is done.

Baking temperature is 350 degrees.

 

Possum moved in

Living in the country means critters show up uninvited.  We live in a mobile home and had left our underpinning open because we were working on a plumbing problem.

So, we were awakened one morning by something crawling around on our metal duct work under the mobile home.  We figured a cat had gotten under there and would find it’s way out.

As we were watching tv that night, we again heard the sound of something crawling around on the duct work.  No worry, it left right?  Yes, but not for good.

We heard this noise on and off for a week or so.  We realized it was a nocturnal animal coming in around daylight and sleeping all day and then going out during the night looking for food.

We have chickens so I really wanted it gone plus the noise in the morning was annoying.

We couldn’t close up the underpinning in the morning because it was under the mobile home so we waited to hear it go out.   Then I got worried it was going after my baby chicks so we went to check on them.

We had flashlights and I saw something in the back of our two acres opposite the chicken yard.  We followed it and saw it was a big possum.  I won’t go into the details but we killed it to prevent it from eating our chickens.

I hate to kill animals.  In fact, we don’t even eat our chickens we raise.  He just made the mistake of coming back one too many times.

Saving money on repairs via u-tube.

My husband bumped the back of our 2013 Nissan Sentra and broke the tail light. He was upset that he did something so careless. Checking with the dealership, the part was 341 dollars and the labor between 75-100.

So, he watched a u-tube video showing how to install the part and then ordered the part from
JC Whitney for $115. We got the part in just a couple days and he and our brother-in-law fixed it in less than half an hour.

He also helped our brother-in-law fix a truck door by finding a video on utube that showed how to repair it for only 10 dollars. The auto repairman was going to charge 350 a door.

I also looked up how to repair our ice maker and successfully fixed it.

I know everyone knows about u-tube but I just didn’t realize people were willing to share such valuable information.