the first thing we cooked in our cocotte

This is the cocotte we bought at the exhibition [see Monday's post]...

 

This is what we cooked in it...

 

And this is how they came out: sweet, sweet, oven-baked murasaki-imo (literally "purple yams"). They're as outstanding to eat as they are to look at!

 

Here's a close-up, in all their princely purpleness...

[this was taken in natural daylight the next morning: the previous photos taken under artificial light]