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Ruth's Chris special sweet potato casserole
Makes 12 servings

Crust

1 cup brown sugar
1/3 cup flour
1 cup chopped nuts (pecans preferred)
1/3 stick butter, melted
Combine brown sugar, flour, nuts and butter in mixing bowl. Set aside.

Sweet Potato Mixture

3 cups mashed sweet potatoes
1 cup sugar
½ teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 eggs, well beaten
1/2 cup (1 stick) butter, melted

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Coat a medium-size casserole dish with nonstick spray.

Combine sweet potatoes, sugar, salt, vanilla, eggs and butter in a large mixing bowl in the order listed. Beat thoroughly with a hand mixer to increase the fluffiness of the sweet potato mixture.

Pour mixture into the baking dish. Bake for 30 minutes. (At this point, dish can be covered and refrigerated.)

Sprinkle the surface of the sweet potato mixture evenly with the crust mixture and return to oven for 10 minutes. Allow to set at least 30 minutes before serving.

The brown sugar and pecan crust should be slightly browned and crunchy.

Take some bacon and cook it down to where it is crispy.  Take the bacon out, reserve the fat.  Quarter frozen brussel sprouts and sear in the bacon fat.  Remove the sprouts to the serving dish.   Mince the cooked bacon and sprinkle back over the brussel sprouts, serve hot!

You can use any amount of bacon, bacon fat, and brussel sprouts.  (Me, I just leave out the brussel sprouts altogether )

Seriously,  the dish is really tasty, the salty bacon and fat balances nice with the sweet bitterness of the sprouts.  That and it takes like no time to cook compared to other fancy vegetables. 

Or take two packages of thawed, frozen spinach and squeeze all the moisture out.  Half a jar of Ragu alfredo sauce into a skillet with some chopped garlic and heat it up in a skillet.  Dice up the spinach a little to get rid of the big chucks.  Add the chopped spinach to the alfredo.  Grate 1/2 lb of gruyere cheese and melt into your sauce/spinach mixture.  Salt and pepper to taste.  Yummy creamed spinach in no time flat...  Really good with steaks!

Dude, you make me laugh!

Yep - did a couple of rounds on the super vit D supplement (once a week, like 10,000 iu).  No improvements for me.  Now taking OTC 2,000 IU daily...  Will see again in 5 months if this works.   Wife got tested and is on the super vit D's now.  Seems to be very common and is only really being tested for recently...