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- Hi, I'm Jerry James Stone, and
you're watching Cooking Stoned.
In today's episode I'm going to make you one
of my favorite dishes; this has been on my blog
for a very long time, and I'm excited
to finally get it on video.
It's my vegan sweet potato soup
that's made with curry and maple syrup.
It's spicy; it's sweet; it's super, super tasty.
Very comforting; and speaking of vegan food
I'm gonna get one of my favorite vegans
in this video right now so I
Let's just text him up; I think you might know this guy.
He's pretty popular; he's been in quite a few movies,
like, almost every TV show.
You might know him from Portlandia or Arrested Development.
We just see if he's available.
Oh, there he is; cool, okay.
We'll just face-time him in,
and...
If you don't know who I'm talking about
I'm talking about Ed Begley Jr.
Hey there Ed, how you doin'?
Thank you so much for joining us today.
I know that you're a busy guy so
I appreciate you taking time out to hang out with us.
- Jerry, sorry I've been so busy
that I can't see you in person,
but I'm happy to chat with you in this way.
Things are good; I've been doing a lot of filming,
But I gotta eat, so I wanna talk food with you.
- I wanted to call you up because
well I'm making this vegan recipe,
which, you know, you're like my favorite vegan.
But this particular sweet potato soup
was actually one that I wanted to put in our cookbook,
and it just didn't quite make the cut.
You know, I had some other soups in there,
and I felt like okay well I'll leave this one out.
But I think that you would really like it;
it's really tasty, it's spicy, it's a little bit sweet.
It's a good recipe.
- I'm glad you're doing this sweet potato soup.
I love sweet potatoes, and I love soup.
I've never had a sweet potato soup
in my memory though, but I love my hearty soups.
I make a pea soup; I make a lentil soup;
I make a couple of other different soups.
A thai, kind of a corn thai soup with fresh corn in it, so.
But this sweet potato soup sounds great,
and I can't wait to try it, so.
And I love sweet potatoes, so this
is great in every possible way.
- Well I know you're busy so I won't keep you too long,
but I was just thinking like, you know,
you're so great at explaining it
you should tell people why they should more vegan.
- You know there's so many reasons I think
one should try being a vegan;
I tried it years ago, and it worked for me.
I started in 1970; it was hard back then,
but I rediscovered it in '92 and
I really find it quite easy now.
It's good for your body; I think it's good
to eat lower in the food chain.
It's certainly good for the environment.
It takes more water, energy, and
you know, space to grow a pound of beef than it does
a pound of broccoli or pound of grain, so.
Now that there's, you know, 7 billion of us
on the planet I think it's something we need to consider
is the environmental impact of what we eat.
As Howard Lyman said, "I think the fork
is one of the most dangerous weapons that we wield."
So consider your diet, and even if you're
a meat eater try eating more plant food and less meat.
And I think it'll work for you,
and these are great recipes; you make it easy Jerry.
- Those are great points Ed; thank you so much
for taking time out today and chat with us.
And yeah, we definitely need to hang out soon.
But, you know, this works for now, okay?
So, take care buddy.
- You too buddy; bye.
- Well, okay, so that's Ed Begley Jr.
So glad he could take some time out and join us today.
But I think we should get to cookin'.
So, the first thing up is we're gunna make
this wonderful curry sweet potato soup.
It's so hearty, very filling, and really easy to make.
Let's do it.
Okay, so to make this sweet potato soup
the first thing we need to do is peel our sweet potatoes.
And just so you know, when you see yams
in the grocery store, those are actually sweet potatoes.
Now yams are different than sweet potatoes,
but yams are rarely
sold here commercially in the United States, so like,
they're just often mislabeled.
So, people think they're yams,
but they're really sweet potatoes.
So go ahead and peel these up.
Then we're gunna cut them into cubes.
(knife chopping)
So now that we chopped all these up
we're just going to boil them so they cook,
and then we can puree them.
So we're just gonna chop up our onion here, for sauteing.
So just warm up a little bit of olive oil in a sauce pan,
and then add in the onions and garlic.
Just saute it until they just begin to soften.
Now we're gonna add in our cubed sweet potatoes.
And just cook these a little bit
in the olive oil; let them soften a bit.
And, next thing we're gonna add in is the water.
You can use broth or water; I tend to use a mixture of both.
I'll take some vegetable broth and water it down.
And remember the full details for this recipe,
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So you just wanna bring the sweet potatoes
to a simmer, and cook them until they're full tender
and almost just falling apart to be honest.
That's when they're ready to go.
We've cooked the sweet potatoes.
We're just gonna puree this in small batches.
Just add some of the potatoes and some of the liquid
to your food processor.
Now let's go ahead and puree this.
(blending)
(mumbles) That's lookin' pretty good.
So the next thing we wanna add in is our maple syrup.
Little bit of salt.
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And some curry powder.
Just mix that all together.
(blending)
So this is still a little on the thick side.
So you can just add in more vegetable broth
as needed to thin it out, but it's pretty much ready to go.
Now you have this delicious, vegan,
curry and maple sweet potato soup.
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