Sweet Potatoes

Brit said:

I have recently been introduced to the wonders of sweet potatoes. Does
anyone have a favorite way of eating them? I'd love to try some
different recipes out!

I don't know if you are a vegetarian or not, but I
think they go really well with ham (mashed sweet
potatoes with ham, regular mashed potatoes with
roast beef). The following page:
http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/show_ea/episode/0,1976,FOOD_9956_27757,00.html
from "good eats" on the food network. I have made
the pie and the mashed sweet potatoes, and I think
both are real good. The waffles look real good
too, but I cannot say for sure as I have not made
them.

Brian Christiansen

On Sat 12 Nov 2005 07:40:40p, Thus Spake Zarathustra, or was it Brit?

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I have recently been introduced to the wonders of sweet potatoes. Does
anyone have a favorite way of eating them? I'd love to try some
different recipes out!

My favorite way of eating sweet potatoes is roasted slow and long, then
served with a glob of butter.

My favorite way to serve them for a holiday meal is candied with thin lemon
slices, using granulated sugar, butter, and orange juice, with a light
sprinkling of cinnamon and nutmeg.

I don't care for savory preparations of sweet potatoes.

--
Wayne Boatwright *¿*
_____________________________________________

A chicken in every pot is a *LOT* of chicken!

Brit said:

I have recently been introduced to the wonders of sweet potatoes. Does
anyone have a favorite way of eating them? I'd love to try some
different recipes out!

My favorite way of late is to peel the "sweetie" to them cut into
lengthwise quarters, set this into an oval oven dish (that I also serve
a regular baked spud in), cover with foil and bake (375 degrees for 60
minutes). Serve chunked up and with butter, salt & pepper.

Picky

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I have recently been introduced to the wonders of sweet potatoes. Does
anyone have a favorite way of eating them? I'd love to try some
different recipes out!

I tried this the other night. Peel a few sweet potatoes, and cut up into
chunks - 1.5" or so. Toss w/ some olive oil; sprinkle with kosher salt,
some thyme (the orig recipe from epicurious stated fresh, but I didn't have
it, and found that dried worked fine), and a 1/2 tsp. of crushed hot dried
red pepper flakes. Oh! And 3 or 4 cloves of garlic, minced. Toss it all
together in the bowl. Throw into a 9x13" pan and roast, uncovered, in a 450
degree oven (put the rack up high!) for about 30-40 minutes, shaking the pan
a few times.

Chris

Brit said:

I have recently been introduced to the wonders of sweet potatoes. Does
anyone have a favorite way of eating them? I'd love to try some
different recipes out!

It is really hard to beat the simplicity and great taste you get by
roasting them (wash and put on oven rack). Then get a caramelized layer
under the skin and all you need to do is peel and eat.

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Brit said:

I have recently been introduced to the wonders of sweet potatoes. Does
anyone have a favorite way of eating them? I'd love to try some
different recipes out!

My favorite is the simplest. Baked sweet potatoes are one of life's
simple pleasures. Baked sweet potatoes are great when served with a
sprinkle of brown sugar, nutmeg, cinnamon and plenty of butter.

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Brit said:

I have recently been introduced to the wonders of sweet potatoes. Does
anyone have a favorite way of eating them? I'd love to try some
different recipes out!

My favorite is the simplest. Baked sweet potatoes are one of life's
simple pleasures. Baked sweet potatoes are great when served with a
sprinkle of brown sugar, nutmeg, cinnamon and plenty of butter.

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Brit said:

I have recently been introduced to the wonders of sweet potatoes. Does
anyone have a favorite way of eating them? I'd love to try some
different recipes out!

My favorite is the simplest. Baked sweet potatoes are one of life's
simple pleasures. Baked sweet potatoes are great when served with a
sprinkle of brown sugar, nutmeg, cinnamon and plenty of butter.

We rarely find sweet potatoes that we call "patate americane" (=americans
potatoes).
I would like to taste them! Are they very sweet as they say?
Cheers
Pandora

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Brit said:

I have recently been introduced to the wonders of sweet potatoes. Does
anyone have a favorite way of eating them? I'd love to try some
different recipes out!

My favorite is the simplest. Baked sweet potatoes are one of life's
simple pleasures. Baked sweet potatoes are great when served with a
sprinkle of brown sugar, nutmeg, cinnamon and plenty of butter.

We rarely find sweet potatoes that we call "patate americane" (=americans
potatoes).
I would like to taste them! Are they very sweet as they say?
Cheers
Pandora

On Sun 13 Nov 2005 06:12:45a, Thus Spake Zarathustra, or was it Pandora?

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Brit said:

I have recently been introduced to the wonders of sweet potatoes. Does
anyone have a favorite way of eating them? I'd love to try some
different recipes out!

My favorite is the simplest. Baked sweet potatoes are one of life's
simple pleasures. Baked sweet potatoes are great when served with a
sprinkle of brown sugar, nutmeg, cinnamon and plenty of butter.

We rarely find sweet potatoes that we call "patate americane" (=americans
potatoes).
I would like to taste them! Are they very sweet as they say?
Cheers
Pandora

The sweetness can vary with the variety and growing conditions but, yes,
they have a sweetness unlike any other potato. Not to the level of a
desert, but definitely sweet. I don't believe sweet potatoes are even
related to white potatoes.

--
Wayne Boatwright *¿*
_____________________________________________

A chicken in every pot is a *LOT* of chicken!

Brit said:

I have recently been introduced to the wonders of sweet potatoes. Does
anyone have a favorite way of eating them? I'd love to try some
different recipes out!

I don't know if I would call this a recipe, but my favorite way of
eating them is to bake them until they're nice and soft inside, then
continue baking them another 1 hour after that. The idea is to get them
soft, smooth, almost caramel sweet, without burning. I don't know if my
1 hour guess is correct. Some people wrap them in foil which makes it
easier to prevent them from burning, but to my mind, that also makes
them syrupy wet. I'm looking for dry and concentrated sweet.

A variation on the same idea is to bake the sweet potatoes until soft,
then add eggs, milk, a little sugar, spices, pour into pie crust and
bake the pie. I think I posted a recipe for coconut-sweet potato pie
once. If you like, I'll look for it and repost.

--Lia

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On Sat 12 Nov 2005 07:40:40p, Thus Spake Zarathustra, or was it Brit?

Quoted message said:

I have recently been introduced to the wonders of sweet potatoes. Does
anyone have a favorite way of eating them? I'd love to try some
different recipes out!

My favorite way of eating sweet potatoes is roasted slow and long, then
served with a glob of butter.

But ya gotta get that crisp "skin" around 'em when roasted.
[Though I admit I'm thinking of the feral type we had around here when
I was a kid. It had a slight greenish tinge to the flesh when cooked,
unlike the bloody orangy commercial varieties one sees now days.]

Quoted message said:

My favorite way to serve them for a holiday meal is candied with thin lemon
slices, using granulated sugar, butter, and orange juice, with a light
sprinkling of cinnamon and nutmeg.

I don't care for savory preparations of sweet potatoes.

Cheers, Phred.

--
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On Sun 13 Nov 2005 06:46:34a, Thus Spake Zarathustra, or was it Julia
Altshuler?

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Brit said:

I have recently been introduced to the wonders of sweet potatoes. Does
anyone have a favorite way of eating them? I'd love to try some
different recipes out!

I don't know if I would call this a recipe, but my favorite way of
eating them is to bake them until they're nice and soft inside, then
continue baking them another 1 hour after that. The idea is to get them
soft, smooth, almost caramel sweet, without burning. I don't know if my
1 hour guess is correct. Some people wrap them in foil which makes it
easier to prevent them from burning, but to my mind, that also makes
them syrupy wet. I'm looking for dry and concentrated sweet.

The perfect way to roast them!

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A variation on the same idea is to bake the sweet potatoes until soft,
then add eggs, milk, a little sugar, spices, pour into pie crust and
bake the pie. I think I posted a recipe for coconut-sweet potato pie
once. If you like, I'll look for it and repost.

Also delicious!

--
Wayne Boatwright *¿*
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A chicken in every pot is a *LOT* of chicken!

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"Brit" <[email hidden]> wrote:

> I have recently been introduced to the wonders of sweet potatoes. Does
> anyone have a favorite way of eating them? I'd love to try some
> different recipes out!

My favorite is the simplest. Baked sweet potatoes are one of life's
simple pleasures. Baked sweet potatoes are great when served with a
sprinkle of brown sugar, nutmeg, cinnamon and plenty of butter.

We rarely find sweet potatoes that we call "patate americane" (=americans
potatoes).
I would like to taste them! Are they very sweet as they say?
Cheers
Pandora

The sweetness can vary with the variety and growing conditions but, yes,
they have a sweetness unlike any other potato. Not to the level of a
desert, but definitely sweet. I don't believe sweet potatoes are even
related to white potatoes.

We can't find good potatoes, here. I don't know! Perhaps it is because
fertilizer!
I remember that when I was young, potatoes were much more good and much
more hard. We bought fresh potatoes to the market and we roasted them. They
were paradisiac in taste and in consistence. Now, potatoes are soft and
tasteless.
I always buy pre-fried potatoes which are gooder! perhaps it is becaus of
industry of fried potatoes.
And I want to say another thing: we plant potatoes, but when I cook them,
they aren't good potatoes (they are soft, always soft🙁((( ). So I think
this: is the atmosphere too bad for our vegetables and plants?
Cheers
Pandora

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--
Wayne Boatwright *¿*
_____________________________________________

A chicken in every pot is a *LOT* of chicken!

On Sun 13 Nov 2005 06:55:27a, Thus Spake Zarathustra, or was it Phred?

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On Sat 12 Nov 2005 07:40:40p, Thus Spake Zarathustra, or was it Brit?

Quoted message said:

I have recently been introduced to the wonders of sweet potatoes. Does
anyone have a favorite way of eating them? I'd love to try some
different recipes out!

My favorite way of eating sweet potatoes is roasted slow and long, then
served with a glob of butter.

But ya gotta get that crisp "skin" around 'em when roasted.
[Though I admit I'm thinking of the feral type we had around here when
I was a kid. It had a slight greenish tinge to the flesh when cooked,
unlike the bloody orangy commercial varieties one sees now days.]

Never heard or seen greenish flesh in a sweet potato. Must just be
downunder. :-) Crisp skin? No, when roasted long and slow, the sugars
caramelize under the skin, the skin soft and mellow.

--
Wayne Boatwright *¿*
_____________________________________________

A chicken in every pot is a *LOT* of chicken!

On Sun 13 Nov 2005 07:04:26a, Thus Spake Zarathustra, or was it Pandora?

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> "Brit" <[email hidden]> wrote:
>
>> I have recently been introduced to the wonders of sweet potatoes.
>> Does anyone have a favorite way of eating them? I'd love to try some
>> different recipes out!
>
> My favorite is the simplest. Baked sweet potatoes are one of life's
> simple pleasures. Baked sweet potatoes are great when served with a
> sprinkle of brown sugar, nutmeg, cinnamon and plenty of butter.

We rarely find sweet potatoes that we call "patate americane"
(=americans potatoes). I would like to taste them! Are they very sweet
as they say? Cheers
Pandora

The sweetness can vary with the variety and growing conditions but,
yes, they have a sweetness unlike any other potato. Not to the level
of a desert, but definitely sweet. I don't believe sweet potatoes are
even related to white potatoes.

We can't find good potatoes, here. I don't know! Perhaps it is because
fertilizer!
I remember that when I was young, potatoes were much more good and much
more hard. We bought fresh potatoes to the market and we roasted them.
They were paradisiac in taste and in consistence. Now, potatoes are soft
and tasteless.
I always buy pre-fried potatoes which are gooder! perhaps it is becaus
of industry of fried potatoes.
And I want to say another thing: we plant potatoes, but when I cook
them, they aren't good potatoes (they are soft, always soft🙁((( ). So
I think this: is the atmosphere too bad for our vegetables and plants?
Cheers
Pandora

That's too bad that you can't get good potatoes. Perhaps it's the soil.

--
Wayne Boatwright *¿*
_____________________________________________

A chicken in every pot is a *LOT* of chicken!

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On Sun 13 Nov 2005 06:12:45a, Thus Spake Zarathustra, or was it Pandora?

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We rarely find sweet potatoes that we call "patate americane" (=americans
potatoes). I would like to taste them! Are they very sweet as they say?

The sweetness can vary with the variety and growing conditions but, yes,
they have a sweetness unlike any other potato. Not to the level of a
desert, but definitely sweet. I don't believe sweet potatoes are even
related to white potatoes.

Yeah, spuds are _Solanum tuberosum_ in the family Solanaceae, which
includes other edibles (tomatoes), drugs (tobacco), and a scary lot of
rather toxic plants.

Got me buggered how come we're allowed to eat the bloody things! In
our modern risk-averse society they would undoubtedly be banned if
someone was silly enough to try to sell them as a new food product!
"Precautionary principle" and all that...

Sweet bucks are _Ipomoea batatas_ in the family Convolvulaceae (think
Morning Glory). One can find poisonous species in this family too,
but I suspect the Solanaceae would win. (Mind you, neither can hold a
candle to the Leguminoseae (beans and peas) when it comes to seriously
toxic plants. You have been warned. ;-)

Cheers, Phred.

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Brit said:

I have recently been introduced to the wonders of sweet potatoes. Does
anyone have a favorite way of eating them? I'd love to try some
different recipes out!

I don't know if I would call this a recipe, but my favorite way of eating
them is to bake them until they're nice and soft inside, then continue
baking them another 1 hour after that. The idea is to get them soft,
smooth, almost caramel sweet, without burning. I don't know if my 1 hour
guess is correct. Some people wrap them in foil which makes it easier to
prevent them from burning, but to my mind, that also makes them syrupy
wet. I'm looking for dry and concentrated sweet.

A variation on the same idea is to bake the sweet potatoes until soft,
then add eggs, milk, a little sugar, spices, pour into pie crust and bake
the pie. I think I posted a recipe for coconut-sweet potato pie once. If
you like, I'll look for it and repost.

Yes!!! Repost!!!!!!
pan

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--Lia

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"Brit" <[email hidden]> wrote:

> I have recently been introduced to the wonders of sweet potatoes.
> Does anyone have a favorite way of eating them? I'd love to try
> some different recipes out!

My favorite is the simplest. Baked sweet potatoes are one of life's
simple pleasures. Baked sweet potatoes are great when served with a
sprinkle of brown sugar, nutmeg, cinnamon and plenty of butter.

We rarely find sweet potatoes that we call "patate americane"
(=americans potatoes).
I would like to taste them! Are they very sweet as they say?
Cheers
Pandora

The sweetness can vary with the variety and growing conditions but,
yes, they have a sweetness unlike any other potato. Not to the level
of a desert, but definitely sweet. I don't believe sweet potatoes are
even related to white potatoes.

Not very closely related, anyway, or to yams (just mentioning this as I
believe from various readings that in the US some sweet potatoes are
sometimes referred to as yams).They are related to morning glories, though
<g>. Sweet potato is Ipomoea batatas, which belongs to the Convulvulaceae
family.Morning glories belong to the same genus. The "normal" potato is
Solanum tuberosum of the Solanaceae family, which also contains tomatoes
and eggplant. Yams are of the Dioscorea genus (various species, I think),
which belongs to yet another family, which I can't remember the name of.
OK, looked it up - Dioscoreaceae.

I love sweet potatoes. When I was young, I mostly only remember my mother
cooking white fleshed sweet potatoes, now it seems we mostly have the
orange fleshed ones (which the Kiwis call kumera) available. I rarely see
the white ones, or the purple skinned ones anymore. I do like normal
potatoes too, but like sweet potato better. I've never eaten any yams <g>.

Rhonda Anderson
Cranebrook, NSW, Australia