Who likes sweet potatoes at Thanksgiving?

[Manifestor_of_Light]

I mix them up with pineapple, mandarin oranges, butter, brown sugar, vanilla, and bake them, then broil the marshmallows on top.

It's a veggie! It's a dessert! It's got lots of Vitamin A!

[madinmaryland]

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[struggle4progress]

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[HopeHoops]

3. E-FUCKING-GADS! No damn marshmallows!!!! And they're sweet enough as it is.

I hated that shit as a kid (and won't make it like that now). I also hated acorn squash because it was always baked with a shitload of butter and brown sugar. I love it now because I don't do that to it. I can see adding fruit, but fuck the marshmallows. :puke:

[csziggy]

34. I'm with you - no marshmallows, no sugar

For me the best way to eat sweet potatoes is baked with butter and salt added at the table.

Someday I do want to try oven baked sweet potato fries, though. They sound good.

Now it's OK to add brown sugar if you're making sweet potato pie, but that's a dessert, not a side dish!

[frogmarch]

4. I do and so does my whole family!

I've never tried making sweet potatoes with oranges, but I'm going to this year. Thanks for the idea!

Marshmallows on top - YUM! I have to make a separate sweet potato casserole for the vegans, with no marshmallows and no real butter, but there are vegan substitutes for these two ingredients.

[madrchsod]

5. sound really really good...i`m stealing it!

[RebelOne]

6. Love them baked with lots and lots of butter. n/t

[betharina]

7. yum! i like mine with butter and brown sugar. nt

[dixiegrrrrl]

27. Add a couple of dashes of orange juice to the melted butter.brown sugar glaze

and pour lightly over sweet potatoes or carrots or good flavored squash.
Makes all the difference in the world, incredibly yummy.

I eat sweet potatoes at least 3 x week and have cravings for them if I go too long without them. Scrumptious.

[eppur_se_muova]

37. Add some pecans, you've got most of the ingredients of pralines anyway ...

http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/gourmet-sweet-potato-classic/detail.aspx

[MiddleFingerMom]

8. I love sweet potatoes simply baked and topped with butter, but...

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...I also love acorn squash with butter and brown sugar -- the addition of
vanilla and oranges or pineapple (probably not both) sounds fantastic!!!
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[GreenPartyVoter]

9. Hubby made some amazing twice baked ones with pecans a few years ago. Superb!

[oneshooter]

10. Sliced thin and pan fried with diced onions!!! n/t

[freshwest]

17. Hadn't thought of that. Sounds great.

[gratuitous]

11. Wait, we talking sweet potatoes or yams?

There's a difference.

[MrScorpio]

12. Who doesn't? nt

[Mojambo]

13. Holy shit, yes. n/t

[trueblue2007]

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[trueblue2007]

15. gosh that looks cool. lololol

[Manifestor_of_Light]

16. I think it's a Southern thing. Or is it all over the country?

[freshwest]

19. IDK, but I think sweet potato pie is a southern thing. I prefer pumpkin, though.

[freshwest]

18. I do. Somehow I think they're better than white ones. Also like them for New Year's Day.

With greens, yellow cornbread (no sugar) and blackeyed peas.

[Bunny]

20. Yes!!!

I like to bake sweet potatoes and apricot halves with some butter and brown sugar. I also like to to mash sweet potatoes, add shredded coconut, throw some mini-marshmallows on top, and broil for a minute or so. Damn, that's good!

I never thought to use mandarin oranges, maybe I'll try that next time. :9

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

21. ICK! Sweet potatoes with marshmallows is THE WORST Thanksgiving dish!

It's wayyy too sweet. Hate that stuff. Nasty. I'd rather have the green bean/mushroom soup/onion ring casserole, and that's kinda nasty, too.

[Initech]

38. I. So. Agree.

Sweet potatoes prepared any other way I prefer (love sweet potato fries)

[Tuesday Afternoon]

22. I don't think I have had that recipe. We like our sweet potatoes in a casserole

with a crumbled pecan topping. Very nice. We like it.

Ingredients
•4 large sweet potatoes (approx. 2 1/2 to 3 lbs.)•1/2 cup brown sugar •1/2 cup sugar •1 teaspoon cinnamon •3/4 teaspoon nutmeg •2 eggs - beaten•1 cup coarsely chopped pecans •1/4 cup flour •1/3 cup brown sugar •3 tablespoons butter - melted

Directions
Preheat the oven to 350°F. Butter the bottom and sides of the casserole dish. Set a side.
Peel and cut up the sweet potatoes into large chunks. Place in a saucepan with salted water.
Bring the water to a boil over medium high heat, cover, and then turn down to medium low heat. Boil for 20 to 25 minutes or just until tender when poked with a fork.
Drain the water off the sweet potatoes and then place them in large bowl. Mash the potatoes with a large spoon or a potato masher.
Add the white sugar, 1/2 cup brown sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, and beaten eggs. Stir until mixed evenly.
Pour the sweet potatoes into the buttered casserole dish.
Mix the pecans, flour, 1/3 cup of brown sugar, and melted butter together in a separate bowl. Sprinkle on top of the sweet potatoes.
Place the sweet potatoes in the preheated oven. Bake for 30 to 40 minutes.

[GoCubsGo]

30. Yum! That's my favorite way!

Only, I like some of the potatoes left in small chunks. There was this dive restaurant near where I used to work that made the best sweet potato souffle/casserole. They used a ton of butter in it. It was one of those places that had the best food, but was the dumpiest place on the planet. It was real hole in the wall. None of the silverware matched. The cups and plates were all mismatched, too. Hell, so were the tables and chairs. The "booth" seats were the old-fashioned vinyl kind, and they had big giant holes in them. There was a shrine to Richard Petty, which was next to what was left to the shrine to Elvis. But, the food was good, and they passed all the health inspections, which surprised us. They were shut down several years ago, not because of health department issues, but because the owner didn't pay her taxes. I really miss that place. Especially the sweet potato souffle and the broccoli cheese casserole.

[Chan790]

23. I do.

No damned sugar or marshmallows though.

[Old Troop]

24. I like them baked with a little butter and pepper.

[GoCubsGo]

31. That's the best way.

If my sweet tooth is acting up, I might sprinkle a wee bit of brown sugar and cinnamon on it.

[Phentex]

25. I like them...

we switch em up from year to year but we don't use marshmallows.

[KT2000]

26. All the time!!

Bake 'em when I am baking other things.
Boil them when I am short on time.
Also make sweet potato pie and pudding.
They are the best!

[Taverner]

28. Gimmie Sweet Potato Pie

I love Pumpkin Pie and all, but Sweet Potato Pie is mighty fine as well..

[kentauros]

29. It's not my favorite of the "really, really, REALLY good for you" veggies,

but I'll eat it if it's mixed into a nice and spicy red, green, or yellow Thai curry :9

[kwassa]

32. Putting sugar and marshmellows on sweet potatoes is horrible. They are already sweet.

They are nutritionally superior to regular potatoes. They are great in many different dishes, cooked in many different ways.

An easy way: sweet potatoes mashed in olive oil. Healthy and very delicious.

[Mimosa]

33. ITA! Butter and cinnamon on baked sweet potatoes..Yuum!

Yams and sweet potatoes are full flavored. They never need salt IMO. Maybe a light grinding of white pepper. But not really.

Fresh cinnamon and unsalted butter! *drool*

[clyrc]

35. I love them any way you can serve them

even with MARSHMALLOWS! Out of nostalgia I made them with marshmallows last year, but I probably won't this year. I'm really the only one who eats them, so I may even mash them with bananas and cinnamon this year.

[muffin1]

36. Me!

But I slice them and cook them on the stovetop - too much needs to go in the oven on Thanksgiving! Slice 'em, add brown sugar, butter, ginger, a little lemon juice, and let 'em simmer about 45 minutes. Yummo.

[fishwax]

39. I love sweet potatoes -- thanksgiving or any time -- but I don't add the fruits or marshmallows

Just a hot oven, a small amount of oil, and a sweet potato--sometimes a little salt, sometimes a little brown sugar :)