Sweet Potato w/Date Sauce

This started out as a breakfast today, but I think it is more of a dessert.  Hard to tell.

Ingredients

1.  1 medium sweet potato

2.  8 pitted dates chopped fine

3.  Salt n Pepper

Recipe

1.  Cut your sweet potato into smallish (1 to 1-1/2 inch sections) the thinner the better

2.  Pit your dates and chop them as fine as you can.

3.  Begin to boil both (as little water as you can in both, the more water you put with the dates, the more you will have to reduce it later.  I just covered them)

4.  When the dates begin to bubble up and potentially over, reduce heat to medium and take a mix-wand-thing to it.  Do this, spraying yourself in the hand and cursing, until it is smooth.  Put back on the heat to reduce.

5.  The date sauce should have a kind of caramelly color to it and be the consistency of soup or stew.

6.  Take your sweet potatoes out and salt very liberally.  A couple of grinds of pepper will do nicely as well.