Sweet potatoes - favorite (or unfavorite) recipes

@ehBeth,

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you and I are going to go to Kensington Market and have some good food

You're on ;D
I just got back from visiting family and friends in NY. There's some good food there too, but it's no Toronto Wink

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Here is another sweet potato recipe I adapted a few years ago for a Thanksgiving dinner we hosted. Copied from another threadf.

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Recipes requested by Osso from our Thanksgiving dinner. I put the alterations I made in parentheses.)

Whiskey-Glazed Sweet Potatoes

Recipe courtesy Guy Fieri, Food Network

Serves:
8 servings

Ingredients

3 pounds sweet potatoes (I used 6 large sweet potatoes)
1 cup pecans
4 tablespoons unsalted butter, plus more for preparing baking dish (I used a whole stick of butter)
3/4 cup agave syrup, preferably amber (I used 1-1/4 cups agave)
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper (I used 1/2 teaspoon cayenne pepper)
1/2 teaspoon kosher salt (I used 1/4 teaspoon)
1/4 cup whiskey (I used 3/4 cup very old whiskey)
2 cups crisp apples, peeled, cored, and sliced into 1-inch pieces (I didn't use apples)

Directions

Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F.

Place the potatoes on a baking sheet and cook the potatoes whole, do not pierce. Bake for 45 minutes to 1 hour. Lightly squeeze the potatoes - if they are soft, they are done. Let cool. (I baked the potatoes the night before and let them chill in the refrigerator. Very easy to peel when chilled.)

In a small saute pan over high heat, add the pecans and lightly toast. Add 4 tablespoons of butter, reduce the heat to medium, add the agave and spices, and allow to simmer for 4 to 5 minutes. Add the whiskey and continue to simmer for 5 minutes more. (I simmered it for about 30 minutes.)

Peel the potatoes and cut into 1/2-inch slices. Butter the bottom and sides of an 8 by 8-inch baking dish. Arrange the sweet potatoes, alternating with the apples. Pour the whiskey-pecan mixture over the top and place in the oven. (I refrigerated the casserole for several hours before reheating it in the oven. The rechilling of the casserole kept the potatoes from becoming mush when reheated.)

Bake for 30 minutes, basting the top with the whiskey sauce once at 15 minutes. (I didn't baste.)

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@Butrflynet,

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1/4 cup whiskey (I used 3/4 cup very old whiskey)

When whiskey is cooked in a recipe, the alcohol evaporates off, and I'd guess that very old whiskey is somewhat pre-evaporated, so personally I would have used LESS than the recipe called for, but if you really like the whiskey taste, more power to ya.

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@ossobuco,

You can try this also; SWEET POTATO SOUP
Heat oil in a heavy-bottom pot. Add leeks, onion, celery, carrot, sweet potatoes, pumpkin, and garlic, and saute until they start to brown.
Add bay leaf, stock, and cream; bring to a boil. Reduce to a simmer and cook until all vegetables are tender.
Add sage, cloves, nutmeg, cinnamon, and salt and pepper to taste. Remove bay leaf, and puree. Serve hot.

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thanks to ossob for leading me back here

great read

fun seeing the first time I tried a few things

also good seeing some old posters

no doubt about it, I miss the culinary and dad sides of cjhsa

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@ehBeth,

I like the avory recips foor sweet taters. We make one ith many of the ingredients above (Those that dont turn the tuber into dessert dish). In addition e add a nice amount of bacon crumbles and some of the grease AND about a 1/4 tsp of a mild garam masala powder, gives a teeny curry presence . The taters are cooked by baking or nuking and then all the met is removed and smooshed

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@farmerman,

I prefer the seedless sweet potatoes, freshly picked from the tree

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@farmerman,

https://www.agro.biodiver.se/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/sweet-potato-tree.jpg

sweet potato tree in Beijing

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@ehBeth,

This is news to me, quite a surprise: amusing, and beautiful.

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@ehBeth,

yes but are they seedless

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@farmerman,

does ancestral green algae have seeds?

https://www.colinpurrington.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/yams-and-sweet-potatoes-difference.jpg

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@farmerman,

I want to get one of those trees that grows snow peas or green beans.

https://s18.postimg.org/53hileyfd/IMG_2464.jpg

http://www.botanical-journeys-plant-guides.com/images/tecoma-stans-seed-pods.jpg

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@Banana Breath,

and maybe spaghetti?

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@roger,

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@roger,

https://gabrielhemery.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/bbc-spaghetti-harvest.jpg?w=1400

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@roger,

the multi-fruiting vegetable tree

https://www.svenskttenn.se/filtered/4480/rszww736h736-90/svenskt_tenn_textil_vegetable_tree_1_2-136410998-rszww736h736-90.jpg

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@ehBeth,

kinda looks like wallpaper.

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@ehBeth,

PS, where did you get that "tree of plant clades". I was trying to fond it and got only ads.
Its great

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@ehBeth,

Tree of 40 types of fruit:

http://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/150727155350-tree-of-40-fruit-exlarge-169.jpg

This is a real project by an art professor that was shown at the Museum of Modern Art. Grafting branches from different fruit trees, each branch grows a different fruit and has somewhat different colored foliage.
http://www.cnn.com/2015/08/03/living/tree-40-fruit-sam-van-aken-feat/index.html

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@Banana Breath,

any sweet potato sections?

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