Sweet Potatoes/Yams

Mary K. · **Joined:** Fri Sep 26, 2003 5:34 pm **Posts:** 9788

Hey, AuntyEm, you did make a link, and you did it so it works! I'm proud of you!!

If I need to, I'll shorten them, but don't worry, I do it all the time, and think nothing about doing it. If nothing else, just tell me what it is, and if you can, the site it's on helps a lot to narrow it down, but I'll do my best to find them. Thanks for the link. I'm going to have a look at it, in a minute, because those would really be nice and moist with the mincemeat.

Here is the recipe for the Ever So Easy Fruitcake AuntyEm mentioned. I'm going back to read both those recipes now.

Yes, your baby is trying to protect you out of love. Little does she realize how it hurt you. I'm sure they are just precious and lots of company.

I came from the doctor this afternoon, and he doubled my arthritis med, and I already take pain pills twice a day...for a long time. I have had injections for other parts of my body, including spinal injections and sometimes they do help, so since this particular joint is so quickly going, I may just go with an injection in it, and take a chance on it helping. I tore a tendon loose along with bone chips in the pinkie next to it years ago. That was a lot of fun! NOT! I can't tell you how large and black my whole hand got from that little episode. I can tell you, after several weeks it felt a whole lot better after it quit throbbing.

I can't believe how really sturdy our bodies are that we put them through so much, and just like the ole Timex, "it takes a lickin' and keeps on tickin'." :wink:

T. Martin · **Posted:** Wed Nov 22, 2006 3:37 pm

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For a small rectangle glass casserole, bake several sweet potatoes. Peel and mash. Measure out a handfull - just enough to completely surround one large marshmallow. Roll the balls in crushed cereal, using either Honey Bunch of Oats or frosted flakes. Once you've finished all the balls that will fit into your dish, pour the following sauce on top. 1/2 cup brown sugar, 2 Tbs. milk, and 1/4 cup butter. Heat until butter melts and sauce is smooth, stirring the entire time. Bake at 350 until the mixture is bubbling all over. Enjoy. Opal

Thought it was ironic that this recipe was the featured recipe of the week in my local paper's weekly Food section...

Sweet Potato Puffs

Mary K. · **Joined:** Fri Sep 26, 2003 5:34 pm **Posts:** 9788

Thank goodness Opal's recipe doesn't include that 1/2 cup of shortening! YIKES! :shock:

That, I couldn't handle.

KDS · **Joined:** Wed Sep 10, 2003 4:10 pm **Posts:** 185

My DH insists on always having his favorite Sweet Potato Pudding w/Nut, Brown Sugar & Butter topping (he gets no argument from me

). I prepared that today and the dish is cooling; then it will go in the fridge until time to warm it in the microwave to serve with "turkey & the fixins". I used to prepare candied sweet potatoes (using canned ones) but switched to this dish (which uses fresh finely grated sweet potatoes) shortly after tasting it at my MIL's many years ago.

Opal · **Posted:** Sat Nov 25, 2006 7:23 pm

No, mine does not have the shortening or the 2 egg yolks. After preparing mine for so long, I can't imagine adding those extra ingredients. I started making these with Frosted Flakes and then switched to Honey Bunches of Oats, so have not tried Corn Flakes. I have used Honey Graham Crackers crumbs, which we, also, liked. But then, sweet potatoes are my No. 1 favorite and would like them most any way. Opal

Mary K. · **Joined:** Fri Sep 26, 2003 5:34 pm **Posts:** 9788

Opal wrote:

No, mine does not have the shortening or the 2 egg yolks. Opal

Thank goodness Opal, because I wouldn't have made them with shortening or eggs either. No point in messing up a good thing!

gimli417 · **Posted:** Mon Nov 27, 2006 2:25 pm

I ate sweet potatoes for the very first time this week! I know, don't start....
First, my MIL made baked sweet potato fries, and they were soooo good. And for Turkey Day, she made a steamed sweet potato dish. She sliced the s.p. and layered them in a large frying pan. Then she sprinkled them with cinnamon, nutmeg, and brown sugar. She then poured probably 3/4-1C water (not washing the good stuff off) and put the lid on, and let them cook away til nice and soft. Then I stepped in: I scooped them out, leaving all the liquid in the pan. I brought it to a boil, and reduced it til it was thick and dark. I also added a splash of vanilla extract. I drizzled that over the s.p. and they were to die for!
I am definately going to start buying s.p. now. It was the nasty casserole-style (with canned potatoes) that has kept me away from them all these years.

Jen

SmilieFace · **Joined:** Mon Feb 28, 2005 9:57 pm **Posts:** 1194

Mmmmm. I've never had sweet potatoes like that. But they sure sound good. My mouth is watering now!

Mary K. · **Joined:** Fri Sep 26, 2003 5:34 pm **Posts:** 9788

Oh girls! you have missed so much not eating sweet potatoes that are the real thing.

I make them in the oven very much like Jen's mil did on the stove top except I don't add water, just butter and brown sugar, sometimes adding marshmallows to toast just before I'm ready to call them done. I do boil mine in their jackets on the stove top until they are done first though, and then pour off the boiling water, and let them cool just long enough so I can handle them to remove the peel. Then I pop them in a buttered casseroled baking dish and depending on the size I either slice them in two lengthwise, or that way and then crosswise. Then I just sprinkle them with lots of brown sugar and pats of butter, and pop in the oven for all that to turn into the goodie. They are so good. I have added some orange zest which my youngest and I agreed was good, but just because we had eaten them so long without the orange zest, we sort of preferred leaving that off. You can also, mash the sweet potatoes and fix them with butter and brown sugar, then into the buttered baking dish for it all the bake for a bit. Then add the marshmallows if you like, but keeping a very close eye on them at that point, because from just toasted to burned is just almost the blink of your eyes a few times. I use the food processor to mash them when I fix them like that, but no eggs or vanilla in this one for us. That would be more like a baked pudding, I believe. :wink:

All just a matter of personal preference......so many ways one can fix sweet potatoes, but if you've only tasted the canned ones, which are really pretty bad, you really should try the real thing.

All my bunch won't eat them, but several do and enjoy them immensely. I'm glad you finally tried and enjoyed them Jen.

gimli417 · **Posted:** Mon Nov 27, 2006 3:30 pm

Oh, I forgot that she dotted the tops with butter, too. About 1/4C, maybe. I'm gonna need to check with her on exactly what she did. My picky eater 4-yr-old actually had three bites of them!! (He's only required to try one bite of something new, so the other two bites were all on his own, and that is high praise indeed!)

Jen

Mary K. · **Joined:** Fri Sep 26, 2003 5:34 pm **Posts:** 9788

That's good Jen! I'll bet you end up with a lot of sweet tater lovers. :wink:

I edited my post after you posted it seems. I really don't measure when I fix them without mashing. I just sort of eyeball it, but I've made them a long time, and that's pretty much what my mother did, so I always just sort of watched the way that she cooked, I'm sure, and it may well be your mil cooks sort of the same way. I have at least one dil who cooks that way too. She may have watched me too many times.

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