Sweet potatoes - where have you been all my life?

[hedgehog]

Last night i made a sweet potato sheet cake - I pureed some sweet potatoes and added butter, pecans, eggs, spices, maple syrup, some sugar, milk and flour. It's amazing!

[hlthe2b]

1. I've forever loved sweet potatoes--the one veggie my mom knew I'd always eat...

I never even minded eating the skin as my Mom insisted I "must"!

Not ooey gooey with the brown sugar and marshmallow crap, but just about any other way. I love to interchange it with everything I'd normally have done with pumpkin. I've even been wanting to cook and pure' some and try it in a smoothie one of these days!

But baked with just a bit of a healthy butter alternative and I'm in heaven.

Your sheet cake sounds delicious. Did you have a recipe?

[hedgehog]

2. I don't have a recipe - basically I just adapted

a spice cake recipe on the go.

[The empressof all]

5. Try making sweet potato chili

I use half cooked sweet potatoes cut in smallish chunks to replace the meat.... Just bloom your regular chili spices in some oil with some finely diced onion and carrot, add tomato, par cooked sweets and a can of beans....Let it simmer for a little while but not too long..you don't want the sweets to get too mushy. I tend to use black beans in this but whatever you have on hand works just as well

[hlthe2b]

6. Ummm... that does sound good.

I'm forever looking for ways to avoid the red meat...

[Lucinda]

3. I love them. Sweet or savory.

The cake sounds delicious!

[freshwest]

4. Wow. Just so happens I'm baking some now to have for dinner with a mess of kale.

Not sure what to add onto the meal, might end up being some beans.

Used to have sweet potatoes on New Year's with blackeyed peas, whole grain yellow cornbread (no sugar) and some greens. Other times of year had that with some pinto beans instead.

The 'cake' sounds good, although I go for the natural sweetness by themselves.

Just looked at some apples in the fridge that are getting old, so will be making fried apples tomorrow. Without flour, but spiced up and should be satisfying.

[tru]

11. fried apples

yum, never thought of that.

[pinto]

7. I really like sweet potato soup.

Blend cooked potatoes with some milk or half & half, some chicken broth, cinnamon and rosemary - all to the consistency and taste you like. Simmer (spices will intensify on simmer). Serve topped with green onion rounds and black pepper.

[freshwest]

8. That sounds interesting. Would garlic work? I've seen some recipes with it.

[cbayer]

9. I love them all kinds of ways, but just baked and buttered is my favorite.

I bought a madeline specifically for slicing them to cook that way.

And pureed is great, too.

PLUS, they last a long time, which is a really important feature for me.

[freshwest]

10. Bakes and buttered my favorite, too. Don't need the sugar.

Some people are making them into french fries too, or mashing them with garlic and butter. May sound weird, but it's good.

[kurtzapril4]

12. I like them with

a Thai peanut sauce. Yum!