Remember how we were talking about those 9,000 pounds of sweet potatoes? The ones that inspired Enzo to create the Japanese Sweet Potato sandwich so many of you have been raving about? When we visited Next Barn Over the other week, Ray showed us the sweet potatoes that were headed for Clover.
He told me a crazy fact. Sweet potatoes are not sweet right out of the ground. They need to cure for a few days to develop their sugars.
Ray knew this had to happen but admitted he didn’t quite know why. I was thinking maybe it’s similar to cooking, like you’re slightly caramelizing the sweet potatoes. We are finished with those 9,000 pounds of Next Barn Over sweet potatoes (and we cleaned them out of organic red cabbage too), but we are getting a few thousand pounds of sweet potatoes from Enterprise Farm and 750 pounds of organic red cabbage from Red Fire Farm to tide us through the end of this sandwich’s run.
