Thanks to everyone who sent advice and recipes for green beans--we'll see what happens! Starwind and any others toying with the idea, do *definitely* add chipotles to your sweet potatoes, it is an excellent combination. I've followed Chris Schlesinger's (god of the East Coast Grill) lead: make a chipotle cream to add to your regular mashed sweets by mincing chipotles en adobo to taste with enough heavy cream and butter to get the potatoes the consistency you want. Dead easy, and I bet if there were any leftovers they'd be great formed into patties and fried in butter for breakfast. Hmm, my cholesterol is rising just looking at what I've written.... Yours, Margo -- Margo Thompson Asst. Professor, Art History Art Department Williams Hall University of Vermont 72 University Place Burlington, VT 05405-0168 (802) 656-0667