Libby Klein Sweet Potatoes are one of my favorite side dishes. I think the best way to eat them is very simple. Roasted and mashed. They don't even need butter. Maybe a little salt. But for the holidays, you want to zhuzh everything up a bit. And my grandkids will eat anything with marshmallows on it. Well, at least the marshmallows disappear. Confession: I really don't love candied yams. They're way too sweet for me. And everyone will take one spoonful and leave the leftovers for me. Then I end up eating candied yams for days. Well, if I'm going to eat the leftovers, I want to love them. So this is a sweet potato dish I can get behind. Grated fresh ginger makes the sweet potatoes sing - and they taste a little lemony. Don't try to use the spice in the baking section. It will not be the same. Fresh ginger is a rhizome. You could plant it in the ground and grow a ginger plant. Well, YOU could. I would kill it. So a good side to any spring vegetable. And a sprinkle of brown sugar on top caramelizes and makes the kids think they're getting away with something.
Tell me in the comments, how do you like your sweet potatoes?
Fancy Sweet Potatoes Without Marshmallows
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Gluten-free baker Poppy McAllister and her aunt Ginny are looking forward to a quiet, homey Christmas at their B&B in Cape May, but unfortunately, death isn’t taking a holiday this year . . .Ever since Thanksgiving, Poppy and her pals have been left with an unsolved mystery of the romantic kind. But at least this mystery isn’t the kind that involves murder. That all changes when the body of a fish supplier is discovered in the kitchen of her ex’s restaurant—and he’s frozen, not fresh.For once, it’s not Poppy who tripped over the corpse, yet she can’t escape being drawn in since the victim has a note taped to him reading Get Poppy. Figures—an engagement ring isn't labeled, but the dead guy is addressed to her. Now, while Aunt Ginny plans a tree-trimming party and pressures Poppy to decode a mysterious old diary, the amateur sleuth is asked to “unofficially” go undercover at the restaurant to help the police. Until then, the only crime Poppy had been dealing with was Figaro’s repeated thefts of bird ornaments from the tree; now it looks like it’s going to be a murder-y Christmas after all.
classes revolved mostly around the Culinary sciences and Drama, with one brilliant semester in Poly-Sci that may have been an accident. She loves to drink coffee, bake gluten-free goodies, collect fluffy cats, and translate sarcasm for people who are too serious. She writes from her Northern Virginia office where she serves a very naughty black smoke Persian named Sir Figaro Newton. You can keep up with her shenanigans by signing up for her Mischief and Mayhem Newsletter on her website. www.LibbyKleinBooks.com/Newsletter/
We LOVE sweet potatoes! Thanks for the recipe. I've never added ginger before, but will be giving it a try.
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Thanks for this recipe, Libby. For a weekday meal I bake and serve sweet potatoes and let each person decide how much butter and/or brown sugar to add. But casseroles look better for company. Most recipes for them include marshmallows, which I hate. So I'm glad to make the recipe you shared, with ginger providing some zing.
ReplyDeleteThese sound wonderful. Love the zing fresh ginger adds to everything, Thanks!
ReplyDeleteWonderful recipe, and so easy, Libby! Thanks for sharing it. I don’t like marshmallows, so this is perfect. I also love ginger, so thanks for the tip. I never thought of growing a ginger plant, but now I will definitely plant one and see. Thus far I like sweet potato fries, mashed or baked. Thanks for all the fun🥳 Luis at ole dot 🧳
ReplyDeleteLibby, I am so with you on keeping the marshmallows out of the sweet potatoes. But ginger and lemon? Yes, please! This recipe sounds great.
ReplyDeleteMy mother used to make sweet potatoes by juicing oranges and adding the oj to the mushed potatoes (they were canned, not freshly baked) . That was then put into the empty orange halves and top with pecans and marshmallows.
ReplyDeleteThe marshmallows are too sweet for me, but the pecan add a nice touch. This was all popped in the oven to rewarm (and melt the marshmallows).
With sweet potatoes the simpler, the better. One of my husband's Louisiana aunts used to cut them into match sticks and slowly cook them in a mixture of butter and brown sugar. She shook the pot rather than stir so no match sticks would get broken.
ReplyDeleteI love these sweet potatoes so much that I’m making them again tonight. I will definitely be trying the matchstick brown sugar idea and the orange juice and pecans. Yum!
ReplyDeleteI love sweet potatoes with sour cream. I love your recipe though and will have to give it a try. aprilbluetx at yahoo dot com
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