I need to bring something for our Christmas buffet at work. Any of you have a sweet potato recipe that would be good even at room temperature (which here is about 75 dF).
Perhaps something that does not require a mixer, food processor, or blender?
Recipes for Sweet Potatoes?
Recipes for Sweet Potatoes?
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Re: Recipes for Sweet Potatoes?
Raw does not require a mixer, food processor, or blender. That will save you an awful lot of effort and teach those sweet potatoe sucking people to mend their evil ways. (I hate sweet potatoes. Can you tell? )
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Re: Recipes for Sweet Potatoes?
Take some sweet potatoes (hereafter referred to as yams to save keystrokes)
Peel yams.
Cube yams.
Steam yams.
Mash yams.
Add salt.
Add butter.
Mince and add two chipotle chilies (the canned variety) and whatever adobo sauce comes along for the ride.
Mash the chilies in with the yams.
Eat yams.
S'good.
Peel yams.
Cube yams.
Steam yams.
Mash yams.
Add salt.
Add butter.
Mince and add two chipotle chilies (the canned variety) and whatever adobo sauce comes along for the ride.
Mash the chilies in with the yams.
Eat yams.
S'good.
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Re: Recipes for Sweet Potatoes?
Lambchop wrote:I need to bring something for our Christmas buffet at work. Any of you have a sweet potato recipe that would be good even at room temperature (which here is about 75 dF).
Perhaps something that does not require a mixer, food processor, or blender?
This is what I made for thanksgiving:
2 large cans of sweet potatoes
1/2 cup brown sugar
1.5 tsp cinnamon
approximately 1-2 cups of marshmallows
About 1 tsp vanilla extract.
Drain one can of potatoes completely. Leave the water in the other can. Pour both (including the water from the one can) into a 9x9 baking dish and make sure it's evenly distributed. Don't mash, leave chunked. Mix Cinnamon and sugar in a bowl, sprinkle evenly on top of potatoes. Sprinkle vanilla on top. Top with marshmallows. Loosely cover with foil.
Bake about 20-25 minutes at 325. Keep an eye on it (or a nose, if you have a good sense of smell). i pulled mine out at about 22 minutes, because I could smell the marshmallows starting to get dark.
Was pretty yummy.
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Re: Recipes for Sweet Potatoes?
I can understand why, too, if you eat them raw.djm wrote:Raw does not require a mixer, food processor, or blender. That will save you an awful lot of effort and teach those sweet potatoe sucking people to mend their evil ways. (I hate sweet potatoes. Can you tell? )
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Re: Recipes for Sweet Potatoes?
We often make oven baked sweet potato fries. they are pretty much like regular home fries.
Cut strips of sweet potatoes in 1 X 1/2 inch slices, oil put on a cooking sheet with your favorite spices (We often use none or cayenne pepper) bake for 30 minutes at 425°F turning every 10 minutes or until cooked the way you like.
Might want to make a small test batch to see how they are cold, but they might be good that way with cinnamon.
Cut strips of sweet potatoes in 1 X 1/2 inch slices, oil put on a cooking sheet with your favorite spices (We often use none or cayenne pepper) bake for 30 minutes at 425°F turning every 10 minutes or until cooked the way you like.
Might want to make a small test batch to see how they are cold, but they might be good that way with cinnamon.
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Re: Recipes for Sweet Potatoes?
Virginia grows the best sweet potatoes in the country. All others are cheap imitations and should be avoided. If you are unfamiliar with your sweet potato's provenance it is best to avoid consuming it. Rather hold the potato vertically in a glass jar filled with water. Place four toothpicks into the potato to suspend it with a quarter of the potato above the water, let it grow, take potato to office to share.
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Re: Recipes for Sweet Potatoes?
I do this with squash, but it should work with sweet potatoes:
Cook and cube or mash the equivalent of one good-sized butternut squash
In a frying pan, brown 1 lb of breakfast sausage till really really brown and in pretty small bits
drain fat to taste
add about two peeled cored apples, diced
add the sweet potatoes and mix well
Put it all in a ~8x8 oven-safe pan
sprinkle liberally with brown sugar and dot with pats of butter
Bake till the stuff on top has turned to butterscotch
It sounds like it needs to be hot, but it doesn't. I've had it straight out of the fridge and after sitting out for a couple of hours. It's just plain tasty.
Cook and cube or mash the equivalent of one good-sized butternut squash
In a frying pan, brown 1 lb of breakfast sausage till really really brown and in pretty small bits
drain fat to taste
add about two peeled cored apples, diced
add the sweet potatoes and mix well
Put it all in a ~8x8 oven-safe pan
sprinkle liberally with brown sugar and dot with pats of butter
Bake till the stuff on top has turned to butterscotch
It sounds like it needs to be hot, but it doesn't. I've had it straight out of the fridge and after sitting out for a couple of hours. It's just plain tasty.
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Re: Recipes for Sweet Potatoes?
Chas, that's intriguing! Sounds yummy! Very different! I can call it southern haggis.
Can you give me a brand name on the sausage? I'm not exactly sure what it is.
Can you give me a brand name on the sausage? I'm not exactly sure what it is.
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Last time I made it all I could find was Jimmy Dean -- I used 1/2 lb extra hot and 1/2 lb sage. These are the breakfast sausage, not in links but in fat tubes, so that you can break the stuff up fine in the skillet.Lambchop wrote:Chas, that's intriguing! Sounds yummy! Very different! I can call it southern haggis.
Can you give me a brand name on the sausage? I'm not exactly sure what it is.
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