My, My, Sweet Potato Pie...

I was less adventurous this time around...and the sweet potatoes in the fridge were calling my name...so I went for a sweet potato custard pie. Technically I have made a sweet potato pie before...but thought this would be completely different. It wasn't. The texture was good, and the taste was fine...just overall it was...well...meeeah. I guess I was hoping for something exorbitantly full of taste. I was underwhelmed.
Here's the deal: The good old-fashioned Southern Sweet Potato pie calls for sweet potatoes found in the South (naturally). They are very dark in flesh color and are often confused with yams. Yams are completely different botanically and are rarely found in the states, and can usually only be grown in very tropic places. So I'm sure I just had run-of-the-mill sweet potatoes. There are two varieties that work well and by golly I am going to go buy seeds for them and plant those suckers next fall...try this darn thing over again. For now my solace is that there is already a booth at the market selling sweet potato cakes and pies...who I'm sure have their act together. I need not worry about competing, I have plenty of other pies to offer! So for now, green tomato pie: YES, sweet potato custard pie: NO!

On a side note: I gave the remainder of the green tomato pie to my father, and he came back with the plate exclaiming "that pie was incredible!" "what did you add to it to make it taste like that?!"...I'm serious..all it needs is some sugar and lemon juice, it make a fabulous pie filling!