"Kris" > wrote in message
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> Hi all,
>
> A friend is trying to get her son to eat more vegetables, and he had
> some mashed sweet potatoes recently that we went wild for. So she's
> trying to replicate them at home.
>
> They were extra sweet, but NOT the kind of sweet potatoe casserole
> with sweet topping recipe. Mashed sweet potatoes with things mixed in
> to make them even sweeter.
>
> Any ideas? I'd like to surprise my friend with some ideas.

If out of a can it was butternut squash. The best sweeet potatoes are those
baked in their jackets... they're plenty sweet, oozing natural sugar, they
need nothing.