Sweet potatoes - favorite (or unfavorite) recipes

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I'd probably go with one green veggie (green beans with pancetta and some kinda nut likely) and maybe an antipasto plate with roasted red pepper strips/olives stuffed with almonds - that sort of thing.

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@sozobe,

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We're having friends over for thanksgiving and I'm doing a traditional slash boring spread -- turkey, dressing, gravy, cranberry nut bread, cranberry sauce. Friends are bringing a salad and "squash with curry apples stuffing." I want to make one more interesting thing, maybe of the green vegetable variety, not sure. May do something more interesting with potatoes. I love roasting but I do that all the time. (I do potatoes plus whatever I have, often carrots, often garlic cloves, looks a lot like the Jamie Oliver pic.) Any ideas? (Sorry if this is too off-topic -- a yam dish plus a squash + apple dish would be redundant, no?)

Simple but good and a little different (for Thanksgiving, anyway) green bean dish -- I pretty much do a variation on this any time I cook the things:

http://www.recipezaar.com/Warm-Green-Bean-Salad-with-Pine-Nuts-and-Basil-15293

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@patiodog,

and green beans are good in the store now.. (at least my stores).

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@patiodog,

Bless you! The friends who are coming over are good gardeners and are pressing fresh herbs upon me -- I've wanted to find a use for basil, this is perfect. That looks so good.

I left out "mashed potatoes" btw -- that's default, may do something more interesting with the taters.

I always get recipes I want to come back to out of these questions, thanks ehBeth and osso too.

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@patiodog,

add tiny crisped bits of pancetta to it, and you've got the same recipe I use

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Just noticed that Chun Chun showed up in this thread. There's a blast from the culinary past. Glad to see ya!! Pretty sure you're a Bay Area Chun.... all the best foodies have roots in San Francisco Bay. New York City????!!!!!!

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@patiodog,

The key to green beans is to grow them yourself (Blue Lake pole/bush are the best - period), and not eat them out of season except in stew. You'll thank me, even if you hate me.

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@cjhsa,

hamburger really really loved green beans when I was a kid. He usually staged the plantings so there would be continuous harvest for several months. I think he'd happily have eaten them two meals a day year-round. Home-grown are the best.

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@cjhsa,

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The key to green beans is to grow them yourself (Blue Lake pole/bush are the best - period), and not eat them out of season except in stew. You'll thank me, even if you hate me.

We always grew green beans when I was growing up. Green beans, snap peas, cherry tomatoes, strawberries, and sunflowers, and some years a couple of barrels of potatoes.

We've got a big plot of ground behind the garage I want to plant next year. Tomatoes and strawberries may not do as well as they did in California, but the green stuff should do very well.

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