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hedgehog (26,528 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
Sweet potatoes - where have you been all my life?
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!
Sweet potatoes are still, happily, absent from franksolich's life.
I wouldn't touch one with a ten-foot primitive.
hlthe2b (39,641 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
1. I've forever loved sweet potatoes--the one v****e 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 (26,528 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
2. I don't have a recipe - basically I just adapted a spice cake recipe on the go.
The empressof all (27,235 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
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 (39,641 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
6. Ummm... that does sound good.
I'm forever looking for ways to avoid the red meat...
Lucinda (14,841 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
3. I love them. Sweet or savory.
The cake sounds delicious!
You know, Lu is s-o-o-o-o-o-o-o much better being the driving force behind the cooking and baking forum, than Mrs. Alfred Packer, the hippywife primitive, had been before her.
Lu's like a kindly grandmother, compared with that snarling hate-filled Mrs. Alfred Packer.
As a bonus, I don't think Chrome Dome and the fecund grasswire primitive care much for Lu--they
loved Mrs. Alfred Packer--and so they haven't been in the cooking and baking forum for the longest time now.
freshwest (9,261 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
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 f****e that are getting old, so will be making fried apples tomorrow. Without flour, but spiced up and should be satisfying.
tru (10 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
11. fried apples
y*m, never thought of that.
pinto (92,403 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
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 (9,261 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
8. That sounds interesting. Would garlic work? I've seen some recipes with it.
cbayer (105,012 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
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.
Okay, stupid question time again.
What the devil is a "madeline"?
I nadined it coming up dry, unless a madeline's a series of books for children by one of franksolich's favorite writers, Ludwig Bemelmans, who drew caricatures of people not with paint, but with words.
freshwest (9,261 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
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 (390 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
12. I like them with a Thai peanut sauce. Y*m!
Okay, stupid question time again.
How is a Thai peanut sauce any different from a Burmese peanut sauce or an Albanian peanut sauce or a Paraguayan peanut sauce or a Swiss peanut sauce or an Ethiopian peanut sauce?
