baked sweet potato recipe – In Good Taste http://ingoodtaste.kitchen Making Every Day an Occasion... Simply Sat, 28 Dec 2019 18:11:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://ingoodtaste.kitchen/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/cropped-peonies-32x32.jpg baked sweet potato recipe – In Good Taste http://ingoodtaste.kitchen 32 32 Baked Sweet Potato Fries http://ingoodtaste.kitchen/a-side-note/ http://ingoodtaste.kitchen/a-side-note/#comments Sun, 22 Feb 2009 09:00:00 +0000 http://ingoodtasteblog.net/?p=322 Growing up, the only sweet potatoes I knew were served with Thanksgiving dinner, smothered in marshmallows and brown sugar. Then I learned about baked sweet potato fries. Now I’ll take a sweet potato over its whiter, starchier counterpart just about any day of the week. Since we all have to begrudgingly admit that yes, it is still winter (stupid groundhog!), now is the time to pay homage to root vegetables. Sweet potatoes can be served mashed, blended into soups, breads, stews or in lieu of a traditional baked potato. They also make great oven fries for moments when you’re craving something that tastes a little bit more indulgent. A lot of us confuse sweet potatoes with yams, when in actuality there are some subtle differences between the two. Even though we use the terms interchangeably, in actuality the sweet potatoes and yams that we find here in the US are actually all sweet potatoes. Yams, of which there are about 200 varieties do not grow in the States but were first identified by African slaves as “nayami.” Pretty cool, right? Neither sweet potatoes nor yams are actually even included in the “potato” family: they are considered tubers and the sweet potato […]

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