Sweet Potato Delights
My mother gave me a large sack of delicious homegrown sweet potatoes from a family at our church. I was going to post it on here, but in the interim I decided to go where all smart people go for advice on what to do with certain pantry fillers... Kim O'Donnel's WP chat.
And besides, as the general inspiration for this blog endeavor, it's time we take a moment and nod our head to this delightful woman. Not only did she singlehandedly get ATP and me through professionalism, she's a wealth of great cooking ideas. Go read the chat archives & her blog and be inspired.
The chat is also helpful because Kim's readers are keen on sharing their own ideas and recipes, and they really responded with sweet potato goodness! The relevant list is below, but you should go read the full text anyway because she and her readers are so interesting.
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Sweet Potatoes: I just got a passel of homegrown North Carolina sweet potatoes with the red dirt still stickin' to 'em, and I need some good ideas. And my mama's sending me some more later. There's always the pie/cobbler/baked with adobo/roasted bit. Any other good ideas out there? Freezer ideas? [This is my question!]
Kim O'Donnel: Make soup, dearie. I wrote in my blog recently about how easi it is to do an impromptu weeknight puree of sweet potatoes . Enjoy!
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Readers wrote in about:
- sweet potato fritters
- roasted with chilies and coriander
- sweet potatos simmered with sauteed garlic and onions, sage, parmesan, and chicken stock served over pasta
- mashed with maple syrup or savory mashed with garlic, shallots, red pepper, and horseradish
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Now, for tonight's dinner: I 1) roasted mushrooms (first time, and certain
ly not the last, with only a touch of olive oil) and 2) also roasted old supermarket sweet potatoes (to get the out of the way so I can get to the Stokes ones), then 3) made some polenta (also first time). I added some light cheddar cheese to the polenta as it was finishing up. Expect an entire post on polenta in the near future. I love cornmeal anything.
posted by mg at 7:25 PM
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