sweet potatoes

I have baked sweet potatoes with baked beans and a spinkle of grated cheese. Yum.

And I'm from UK and can honestly say I ahve never heard of swet potato with anything sweet, let alone brown sugar, butter, marshmellows and pecans !!

I also love sweet potato fries! I don't follow any recipe.... just cut into fry size, use olive oil, salt and pepper, and bake them. They come out great.

I love baked sweet potatoes!! I like to top mine w/ cottage cheese or plain yogurt, cinnamon, and pumpkin pie spice (you could add some sweetener if you like also).

My hubby and kids like theirs w/ a little brown sugar and cinnamon.

I make my sweet potato fries like this:

Cut sweet potato lengthwise into "fry" size bits, some big for awesome taste and some smaller for crunchiness. For one potato's worth, I drizzele half a Tbsp. of olive oil and then coat them in the pan by hand. I sprinkle some cayenne pepper on top, roll them around by hand again, and then bake at 425 for half an hour. Delish!

I love them cut up and roasted with a little olive oil, chopped vidalia onion, pepper, a little sea salt and fresh rosemary! YUM!!! Also you could cut them into french fry shape (carefully) and make some honey mustard sauce for dipping Let us know what you do and how they come out. :flowerforyou:

My kids won't eat sweet potatoes alone. So I make a mash potato mixture. Sweet potatoes, carrots, ruttabaga and maybe an ordinary potato or two. Mash it up like you would prepare ordinary mash potatoes. My whole family loooooves it and lots of vitamins.

I like my sweet potatoes w/ a spicy flavor. Try mxing butter w/ some chili powder, cumin, cinnamon and some cayanne? Maybe even some corriander to lighten it up! a tad of gran. sugar and salt would be good to to round all the flavors. Just bake 'em like normal, melt your butter and mix your spices in (either put in the fridge to harden after or serve by drizzling melted butter)

Good luck!

I bake them and spread a wedge of Laughing Cow cheese on it. I also make sweet potato fries, which are sooo yummy. Sometimes I cut them into wedges, toss them with a small amount of olive oil and chili powder and roast them.

I just use spray butter, though you could probably add cinamon and a few walnut halves for very few calories.

My fiancee made this one day, sorry not sure of the recipe. You can google it i'm sure.

She baked the sweet potato and banana - When done, mashed both together with some agave nectar syrup (could use honey), then put back in casserole dish and top with chopped pecans and some brown sugar.
Back in the oven for a bit longer. It was delicious.

I LOVE sweet potatoes. But I'm no help because I'm the opposite of you. I leave mine plain because I want to taste every delicious bite.

I love sweet potatoes cut up in bit size chunks with just a little olive oil drizzled over them with salt & pepper and tossed on a cookie sheet. Then roast them in the oven on 400 till done ( I think 30-40 minutes). I learned this from Barefoot Contessa on Food Network. I also roast butternut squash, carrots & parsnips this way all together. It makes a great root vegetable side.

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I like to peel them, and cube them, and put them in a frying pan with a little butter & a lot of cinnamon (and nutmeg,,, punkin pie spice,,, whatever you like) - and cook covered over medium/low heat. You're not frying here, and if you get a lot of sizzle you need to turn down the heat.

Once in a while, when I'm in the kitchen, I just pick up the pan, hold the lid down with the thumbs and shake the crap out of the whole works,,, but you could stir too if you're into that. My way is quicker

This is a bit of a slow process. Ever taste raw sweet potato? Don't,,, it tastes like shoe. But when you cook them the starches convert to sugars and they're so good. Usually takes 45 minutes or so to cook down. When they start to soften you can hit 'em with the masher. Just take the good ol' tater masher and pound the snot out of 'em.

4 or 5 pounds of sweetaters is a nice batch. A couple dinners' worth, unless you have the Minnesota Vikings coming for dinner. We put the excess away and lunchbox it. I like to cook way too much dinner and fix box lunches in Gladware and take 'em to work. My wife pretty much won't eat anything not cooked by moi, which is sweet.

I make my as a twice baked potato. I back for about 1 hour on 375 and then let cool. Scoop at the middle and mash with a little milk, Walnuts, pecans, 2 mini marshmallows, Cinnanmon, pumpkin spice, etcs. whatever i have on hand at the time. Then put back into the shells and rebake again for about 1/ 2 hour on 400.

Remember it is all about portion control. If you like them a certain way, just cut back on the amount of marshmallows, or even look for items that are low in fat/calories. Instead of stick of butter, just use a pat for flavor.

I do this with regular potatoes using fat free cheddar cheese, fat free sour cream, a little bacon, etcs. This way you are getting a treat every now and then and not feel like you are depriving yourself.