Sweet Potatoes

Here's a sweet idea.

Sweet potatoes are a wonderful side dish and very nutritious. I like them baked with a little salt and pepper. You may add butter, brown sugar, marshmallows, nutmeg, cinnamon etc. Bake at 400° until tender, time depends on the size of the potato an hour or more usually. Make sure to place on a pan because the sugars will drip and burn on the bottom of the oven. You can use the microwave. They are also great boiled use like an Idaho potato.

Generally at the produce department sweet potatoes are the cream colored ones and yams are orange, however both are called sweet potatoes frequently. My favorite are the yams, but both are delicious.

Submitted by: Karen Tucker

Delicious Yam Casserole

Delicious Yam Casserole

4 cups cooked mashed yams
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup butter
1 TBS vanilla
1/3 cup heavy cream
2 well-beaten eggs

Mix and place in a greased 9x13 baking dish.

Topping

1/3 cup melted butter
1 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup flour
1 cup chopped pecans

Mix together and crumble on top of first mixture.
Bake 25 minutes at 350 degrees.


submitted by: Nanette Hill

Yam and Apple Dish

Yam and Apple Dish (I usually double it for big family gatherings)

1 ½ C. Brown Sugar

1 ½ tsp. salt

¼ tsp. ginger

3 med. Yams – cooked (you can just boil them like potatoes),

peeled, sliced ½ in. thick

2 Apples – peeled and sliced

Layer all three ingredients (Yams, apples, and brown sugar mixture)

two times and dot with 3 TB of butter. Bake for 30 min. at 350 degrees.

Submitted by: Sarah Smyth