Comments on: In Season: Sweet Potatoes

By: Carole Smolinski

Carole Smolinski — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 22:51:34 +0000

My first Mom In law born & raised in Ga. taught me about sweet potatoes. The orange colored are the sweets. To make sweet potato slabe, she baked (in an old wood stove) just a bit to make the potato a little tender. Peel it, slice it into slabs fairly thin, fry, salt while frying. Not very healthy, but bak in that time, there wasn't much talk. Now those potatoes were wonderful. Using Crisco, of course.
Then for the fries, the same baking method, slice horizontal, then make the frie (stick). She fried them, but they baked up fantastically. This has been over 60 years ago. Bless her, she knew all the ways to fix any food. I was converted to Sourthern cooking & still practice it at (over 70) I'm not saying to try it those ways, but just wanted to stick my 2cents in……..

By: Elyse

Elyse — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 13:10:43 +0000

Sweet potatoes make great latkes! http://creativedelites.com/2009/12/11/create-bake...

By: veggal

veggal — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 10:21:40 +0000

My son just loves sweet potato fry, so that's what I make most often.

Here are a couple other sweet potato dishes you might like:

http://www.vegrecipes4u.com/sweet-potato-curry.ht...

htto://www.vegrecipes4u.com/sweet-potato-fry.html

By: Sarah

Sarah — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 03:48:57 +0000

Really?

By: Sarah

Sarah — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 03:47:28 +0000

That's kind of funny… Imagine walking into someone's room and seeing a bag of sweet potatoes under their bed. Hah. Very great idea though. It must be cool and dry under there. Perfect!

By: Amanda

Amanda — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 01:24:00 +0000

I love making sweet potato 'fries' to go with sandwiches. It is a much healthier option than regular potato chips. I slice the potato very thin and season them with black pepper and garlic salt. I like to bake them on a broiler pan, they seem to get crisper that way.

By: linda

linda — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 06:13:38 +0000

yes you can cook sweet potatoes in a crock pot. Put a very small amount of water to just cover the bottom and cook on low overnight and they are just like baked.

By: terri

terri — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:05:59 +0000

Sweet potatoes are only 6000 yrs old,because that is how old the earth is.

By: susan

susan — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:59:34 +0000

Can you cook sweet potatoes in a crock pot? If so, how would you prepare them for cooking?

By: Lori

Lori — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:03:04 +0000

I never ate sweet potatoes as much until I read Healthy Eats and learned how good they were for you and how many vitamins they had! They are a terrific alternative to brown rice and other sides. They also go very well with a ton of different types of green vegetables!