SOMEONE please bottle this stuff

There are plenty of fancy or gourmet honeys which I am sure some people feel are worth their exurbent price tag. Truffle honey from magical pastures that is hand-crafted and bottled by gnomes, sure sounds like it would be worth half a paycheck.

But other sweet liquids can be even more valuable…in fact we discovered one that is actually priceless; you have to harvest this honey yourself. Although we have searched, so far NO ONE SELLS THIS STUFF.

Sweet potato; the healthy, far more tasty brother to the common white potato holds a secret. When baked in foil over a long period of time it releases a true juice of the gods. A thick syrup oozes from the sweet potato.  Ignorantly, many people often toss this magical liquid in the trash with the foil in which the potato was originally baked in. In our house hold, this action could lead to war breaking out. I have used deception and bribery to get a larger share of this sweet potato “honey,” and Mrs. Fed Up has been known to threaten pulling out a blade if anyone touches her sweet potato’s priceless liquid. If you could buy this stuff, I have no doubt that we would be broke. We would ignore credit limits and forget the mortgage just to purchase a few more drops of this stuff.

After an hour of slowly baking in the oven, a sweet potato provides just a few precious drops of this "honey." I am sure this stuff is far move valuable than oil or gold or diamonds, and it definitely is a lot tastier.

This sweet, sweet potato syrup is truly a rare gem that seems to have a taste like nothing else. It is sweet without being overly sweet, and flavored similar to a cross between caramel and the sweet potato from which it was born. The problem is there is so little of it magically created at a time, and it can quickly dry out and burn to the foil if not carefully harvested. But it is so worth saving every last drop of this truly rare honey and dribbling it over your ready-to-eat sweet potato, or even simply dipping your fingers into it and enjoying it in its most pure form.

I do not claim to be some super observant genius in any from, and I am sure Mr. and Mrs. Fed Up were not the first ones to notice this amazing substance….which is why we question how no one has bottled this stuff yet?!? If we can make sugar free, fat free caramel, or acai and mangosteen dry drink mix; then how are we not able to harvest and distribute this humble sweet potato honey???

A well baked sweet potato on its own is quality grub. Especially if it is nice and mushy. But drizzle a little bit of this baked tastiness in its own juices, and this simple food has suddenly risen to a whole other level.

This has led us to experimenting on our own…trying to figure out how to juice a sweet potato and harvest its honey. Our attempts have found little revealing information. It seems the darker orange the sweet potato, the better the honey. And to get the most from a sweet potato, it needs to be wrapped tightly in foil to avoid leakage, and then cooked low and slow in the oven. But there must be a secret to juicing these things and getting more out.

Please, SOMEONE figure out how to bottle this stuff! Then become filthy rich selling sweet potato “honey” to eaters everywhere.   Just remember the Fed Up team expects some royalties, or at least a free sample or three.