But I know where you're going with this, Jody. Years ago I went to the Gilroy Garlic Festival and tried garlic ice cream. Sounds horrible, doesn't it? I thought so--made sure to try it before lunch, expecting to hurl at the taste.

But no, it turned out that the garlic and the vanilla balanced each other perfectly, like nothing I'd ever tasted before. Sometimes imagination fails us when predicting what food will taste like.

About a month ago I made up a recipe for butternut squash by combining several I found on the Net. The main taste/ingredient is Parmesan cheese, and I was afraid I was going to spoil a perfectly good squash. But no hot damn! Tangy cheese taste balanced by slightly sweet squash taste equaled a taste bud surprise like garlic ice cream.

And, I'll bet, sweet potato and pork is like that. My stomach gets queasy when my head thinks that phrase, but my head knows better.