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Posted: 5/31/2007 2:55:50 PM | | Trying to incorporate sweet potatoes into the menu more often. Does anyone have any interesting summer salad receipes? Love the one available at Loblaws with green onions, raisons etc. P.S. Cilanto rocks ...Trying really hard to make this post longer... | |
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Posted: 5/31/2007 3:12:14 PM | Well, this isn't a salad, but it's a good one. Are you wanting only savory recipes? Here is a sweet one. I have more savory ones, but I'll have to look them up, so I'll get back to you on those.
Sweet Potato Souffle
2 pounds small sweet potatoes or yams
½ c. raisins
½ c. pecans
¼ c. butter (or butter substitute)
¼ c. Splenda
1/3 c. light cream
2 eggs, beaten
1 tsp. cinnamon
1 tsp. allspice
Cook the sweet potatoes in water to cover in a saucepan for 1 hour or until tender; drain.
Peel the potatoes and mash in a large bowl.
Add the butter, sugar, cream, eggs and cinnamon; mix well.
Spoon into a greased 2-quart baking dish.
Bake at 350 degrees for 30 to 40 minutes or until the center is set.
Increase the oven temperature to 475 degrees.
Top with the marshmallows.
Bake for 3 to 5 minutes or until golden brown.
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Posted: 5/31/2007 3:38:23 PM | | My mom makes that evry thanksgiving...it is really good, and rich!!! | |
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Posted: 5/31/2007 9:59:34 PM | | No salad, but Tempura Sweet Potatoes or Yams are great! | |
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Posted: 5/31/2007 10:23:24 PM | Ditto about the salad, but since they are so healthy I've tried to get them into more cooking, too. I"ve shredded them and put them in the middle of my homemade hash browns to up the nutrients. In small pieces they're good in soup. I don't much care for the taste of them plain.
I suppose you could shred them, blanch them, cool them, and add them to the regular lettuce salads. | |
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Posted: 5/31/2007 10:37:32 PM |
but since they are so healthy Ah geez Random. Why in the heck do you have to bring the "H" word into this? You take the fun out of a sweet potatie by making it healthy. Bake it and drown it in butter, cinnamon, and sugar. Tempura batter it, or french fry it! Never, EVER ruin a self-respecting sweet potato by putting on the same plate as lettuce...UGH!  | |
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Posted: 5/31/2007 11:09:31 PM | You would love my mother, raerae, her recipe for sweet potatoes is to cover them with butter and brown sugar and as if that is not enough she adds marshmallows on top!
I gag just looking at it!
I'm gonna go make a sweet potato and lettuce salad just for you. | |
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Posted: 5/31/2007 11:11:34 PM | | Sheeeesh! Healthy eaters! Thay are so proud of being disciplined about their eating habits! Boo Hisssss! Let's hear it for sponteneity! Life is short, eat dessert first! | |
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Posted: 6/1/2007 12:18:38 AM |
I'm gonna go make a sweet potato and lettuce salad just for you.
Artsy, will you help me hang him? When the police come we'll tell them we were at Harrah's with RK. We'll stuff chocolate pudding covered red undies in Eddie's mouth. That'll keep him busy. He'll never say a word.
Op, I made this recipe for my family Thanksgiving morning two years ago and they loved it. Again, it's not a salad, but it's yummy. Talk about adding a new dimension to a buttermilk biscuit!
I got this recipe from Emeril's Thanksgiving show a few years ago.
Sweet Potato-Bacon Biscuits
Recipe Summary
Difficulty: Medium
Prep Time: 20 minutes
Cook Time: 18 minutes
Yield: 10 servings
2 cups all-purpose flour
2 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 stick cold unsalted butter, cut into pieces
1 cup mashed cooked sweet potatoes, cooled
2 tablespoons packed light brown sugar
5 slices cooked bacon, drained and crumbled
3/4 to 1 cup buttermilk
Preheat the oven to 425 degrees F. Lightly grease a large baking sheet and set aside.
In a bowl, stir together the flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. Add the butter and work in with a pastry blender or your fingers until the mixture resembles coarse crumbs.
In a bowl, whip the sweet potatoes with the brown sugar until very smooth. Add to the flour mixture and mix in lightly but thoroughly with your fingers. Add 3/4 cup of the buttermilk and the bacon and gently work to make a smooth dough, slightly sticky, being careful not to overwork and adding more liquid as needed 1 teaspoon at a time.
Turn out onto a lightly floured surface and pat out into a large rectangle about 1/2-inch thick. Cut into 10 large biscuits and place on the prepared baking sheet. Bake until golden brown and risen, 15 to 18 minutes.
Remove from the oven and serve hot with butter.
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Posted: 6/1/2007 12:47:59 AM | Artsy: Nonsense, you missed my message in the other thread where I brag I got my triglycerides up to 2090. Yes, over two thousand. That sure did not come from healthy eating. I did it fast, too!
Artsy, will you help me hang him? When the police come we'll tell them we were at Harrah's with RK. We'll stuff chocolate pudding covered red undies in Eddie's mouth. That'll keep him busy. He'll never say a word.
That reminds me of this strange vincent price movie where he feeds weird things to his guests. To one lady they grind up her dog in a meat grinder and feed it to her and she finds out afterwards. Another one they stuff a funnel in his mouth and literally feed him to death!
Another interesting eating movie, not gruesome at all, is Babette's Feast. Very quiet but interesting in a strange way. | |
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Posted: 6/1/2007 7:51:56 AM |
That reminds me of this strange vincent price movie where he feeds weird things to his guests. To one lady they grind up her dog in a meat grinder and feed it to her and she finds out afterwards. Another one they stuff a funnel in his mouth and literally feed him to death!
Hmmmmm...that gives me and idea for a murder mystery...."Random Murder By Sweet Potato." I'll write it under a pseudomyn, "Yam"atha Christie. When it hits the big screen, the words to my theme song will be, "I ain't no Random murderer, cuz I'm a Sweet Potatie, I yam I yam...." Yeah....that's the ticket.
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Posted: 6/1/2007 3:28:59 PM | Ooooo RaeRae! Can help you write it? Think of the potatobilitites!
I remember reading about Babette's Feast. I can't remember what I read, but I do remember reading about it! (Yeah, the senility is settling in)
Hmmm.....there could also be some interesting porn parodies. | |
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Posted: 6/3/2007 12:53:15 AM | RaeRae-
Your post belongs in the Food Fantasy thread! | |
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Posted: 6/3/2007 7:31:51 PM | http://lifestyle.msn.com/FoodandEntertaining/Recipes/ArticleBHG.aspx?cp-documentid=649343
Just found this link when I was reading an article on essential side dishes. Thought of you and I thought I'd post it. Tell me what you think. | |
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Posted: 6/5/2007 12:00:56 PM | Thanks for the link Trinity23...can never have enough recipes.
As for the rest of you never thought sweet potatoes could be so much fun.
Here is a curried sweet potatoe and black bean receipe. Taste better cold so maybe could qualify as a salad?
2-3 tbsp oil
1 med or large onion
1/4 tsp cumin seeds
1-2 dried chilli's (optional)
1 clove garlic chopped
1-1 1/2 cups cubed sweet potatoe
1 cup diced tomatoe
1 hefty tsp corriander powder
1 level tsp cumin powder
1/4tsp tumeric
1 can black beans
fresh corriander
salt to taste
Fry onions and cumin seeds and dried chilli in oil until transparent.
Add garlic and saute a little longer.
Add diced potatoes and saute 5 min. Edges turning a little brown
Add tomatoes and dried spices and 1/2 tsp salt and let cook on low heat till potatoes soften. (They don't seem to take as long as regular potatoes)
Add can of rinsed cooked black beans
Add more salt to your taste. Add corriander.
To make it more saucey and more tomatoe. | |
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Posted: 6/5/2007 1:09:54 PM | This one is great and as easy as making regular potato salad:
"Sweet Potato" Potato Salad
4 med. size sweet potatoes
3 hard boiled eggs
1/2 c. salad pickles (or 2 tsp sweet pickle relish)
4-6 red radishes, cut in coins
1 tbsp. mustard
1 c. mayonnaise
Boil potatoes until tender, peel and cut in cubes. Mix mayonnaise, eggs, pickles and mustard together. Pour over potatoes and toss around with a fork until mixed well. Refrigerate. | |
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Posted: 6/5/2007 1:47:53 PM | Here's one courtesy of the food network
2 cups medium diced sweet potatoes
1/2 cup raisins
2/3 cup finely diced red onion
1/3 cup finely diced celery
2 teaspoons freshly grated ginger
1/2 cup mayonnaise
1 tablespoon finely chopped parsley
Cook potatoes until they are fork tender in boiling water. Drain the potatoes and cool them completely. Soak the raisins in hot water for 15 minutes and then drain. Combine all the ingredients and mix them thoroughly, but gently. Chill for 24 hours before serving.
Haven't tried it, let me know how it is. | |
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Posted: 6/6/2007 4:16:58 PM | | Thanks artysladee I tried it. Enjoyed it. I used cilantro instead of parsley. Next time I will try with green onions instead of red. | |
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Posted: 6/9/2007 1:18:16 AM | | The South Beach Diet has some interesting salads.. I'm tempted to making one some day soon. | |
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Posted: 10/9/2007 7:11:36 PM | | Anyone have a good sweet potato pie recipe? | |
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Posted: 10/10/2007 10:35:39 AM | I prefer to eat my sweet potatoes in one of three ways-
1. French Fries
2. Roasted til a little crispy on the outside (cube them and toss with almond oil, bake in oven) then drizzled with a garlic/basil mayonaise mix (the healthy people can use low/no fat mayo)
3. Mashed with potato, rutabaga and kohlrabi. But steam the kohlrabi before the rest of the veggies as it takes longer to soften. | |
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Posted: 10/10/2007 2:36:12 PM | ^^^^Yummy..Sounds like a great way to do them.. | |
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Speaking of which I did try sweet potatoes in the FryBaby(tm) but they just did not cut it as french fries. But at least give me credit where credit is due... I tried new ways of making sweet potatoes unhealthy!
