Judy Haffner wrote:
>
> Which of the two potatoes do you prefer? Also how do you best like them
> prepared?

I do prefer sweet potatoes aka yams over "regular" potatoes be they
white, purple or whatever.

> We don't care for yams and never fix them, but we really do like sweet
> potatoes,

Technically, yams are a class of root vegitable from Africa. They don't
appear in the US unless you can maybe find one in a specialty store that
focuses on recent immigrants. What we call yams in the US are sweet
potatoes. If you like one variety but not the other you're splitting a
finer hair than I'm able to do.

> and like them baked whole in the oven, and then put butter and
> salt and pepper on them. I have several favorite casseroles using sweet
> potatoes also, that I often fix during the holidays.
>
> If you have any special recipe for them, please share.

I also like them frenched as fries and thing sliced as chips. Plus they
work fine in stews in place of white potatoes. Shredding sweet potatoes
directly into a frying pan to make them like hash browns works great.

Sweet potato pie tends to resemble pumpkin pie. We've made pumpkin pie
from scratch but so far have only gotten sweet potato pies at
restaurants so I don't have any recipe to offer.