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.

Thanks as always,
Kris

Kris wrote:
> 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.
>
> Thanks as always,
> Kris

A sweetened orange juice is sometimes added to mashed sweet potatoes as
can be mashed bananas.

I doubt brandy was added but it can be to a sweetening effect. And a
restaurant standby is to add honey to sweet potatoes.
--
JL

On Mon 23 Feb 2009 05:11:52p, Joseph Littleshoes told us...

>
>
> Kris wrote:
>> 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.
>>
>> Thanks as always,
>> Kris
>
> A sweetened orange juice is sometimes added to mashed sweet potatoes as
> can be mashed bananas.
>
> I doubt brandy was added but it can be to a sweetening effect. And a
> restaurant standby is to add honey to sweet potatoes.
> --
> JL
>
>

I've never much cared for mashed sweet potatoes, but my grandmother used to
make them with orange juice concentrate and a bit of light brown sugar.
The flavor was very nice and they were definitely sweet. No topping.

--
Wayne Boatwright

"One man's meat is another man's poison"
- Oswald Dykes, English writer, 1709.

Kris wrote:
> 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.
>
> Thanks as always,
> Kris
>

Mash the sweet potatoes and add butter. If it is not sweet enough, add
brown sugar to taste. Be wild and add a sprinkle of cinnamon.

Becca

"Kris" > wrote in message
...
> 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.

brooklyn1 wrote:
> "Kris" > wrote in message
> ...
>
>>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.
>
>

There is that, and the little ones cook so quickly in the oven they can
be a real treat with ust a dab of butter.
--
JL

>

On Feb 23, 6:55*pm, Kris > wrote:
> 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.
>
> Thanks as always,
> Kris

I think my friend mentioned using maple syrup or condensed milk. Do
either of those make any sense?

Food for thought,
Kris

"Kris" > wrote in message
...
> 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.
>
Mixed in were butter and brown sugar.

On Feb 23, 10:06*pm, "cyberpurrs" > wrote:
> "Kris" > wrote in message
>
> ...> 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.
>
> Mixed in were butter and brown sugar.

Brown sugar, raw sugar, honey, Splenda, whatever. Bake or nuke the
unpeeled potatoes and scoop out of shells. Smash with fork and
sprinkle with sweetener of your choice. Top with butter and serve for
dessert.
Lynn in Fargo

"Kris" wrote

> 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.

Good!

> 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.

Several, quite a few of them are actually healthy too as they use fruit to
sweeten.

Here's a basic not in MM format. Sweet potatoes take well to added karo or
molassis plus fried fruit such as minced fig. They also take well to fresh
mashed grapes (recommend seedless), small cubes of apples doused in cinnimon
and butter, and fresh pinapple.

Buried in this first recipe is one for sweet potatoes (ignore the rest if
not interested) which for kids would be made with white grape juice instead
of sake. (though we made the sake version and it's better).


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Title: Xxcarol's Japan Thanksgiving
Categories: Xxcarol, Holiday, Cornish hen
Yield: 3 Servings

2 c Stuffing-baked
1 ea Cornish hen
1 lg Japanese sweet yam
2 c Rice- medium calrose
1/4 c Saki
1/4 c Smashed japanese grapes-red
3 sm Carrots- sliced pretty
2 md Japanese cucumbers
3 sl Bitter melon
4 ea Green onions- whole
1 c Red beans- sweet

Ok, whaddaya do when you get in port at 6pm day the day before
Thanksgiving?

You start by defrosting the only 'bird' ya got! That was a cornish
hen. Split 3 ways, it's not alot of meat but we have the other stuff
to makeup for that. Make up stuffing (I used bagged pepperidge farm)
and stuff the hen as much as reasonably possible. The rest goes in a
baking dish to the side.

Make a batch of rice in the ricemaker and in the steamer above, add
the red beans (pre-cooked) and the bitter melon slices.

Slice the sweet yam and add to it the saki and mashed grapes. Add
sufficient water to cover and taste test for sweetness once the yams
are done. Add molasses or light karo syrup to taste.

Baste the hen with the sauces from the yam pot (add more to yam pot as
needed).

Steam or blanche the carrots lightly then add the fresh cucumber. A
dab of sugared ginger atop makes it perfect! No dressing neededbut
if you insist, make it a sweet-vinigary one.

5 mins before the hen is done, lace the green onions into a chain and
ring them around the bird.

When all is done, put the hen on a platter with the yams to the side
and use an ice-cream scoop to ball up stuffing on the other side.
Place green onion ring around it all and the carrots/cucumbers
towards the feet. In this case, a lazy-susan dish is perfect if
large! I added rice and sweet beans to the head portion of mine
(extra at the stove) and put a slice of bitter melon on each plate.

Dessert? We were too stuffed! But we had on the ready, fresh
tangerines and vanilla ice-cream. Line the dish with the tangerine
slices then add a scoop of ice-cream. Drizzle with chocolate syrup.

From the kitchen of: xxcarol
22 November 2001
Sasebo Japan

MMMMM

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Title: Aloha Sweet Potatoes
Categories: American, Potatoes
Yield: 1 Servings

4 To 5 Medium Sweet Potatoes
1/2 c Pineapple Preserves
2 tb Butter

Boil sweet potatoes in their jackets until tender, about 25 minutes.
Let cool, then peel and cut into 1/2 inch thick slices. In a large
skillet melt pineapple preserves and butter; add sweet potatoes to
skillet. Cook gently; tossing lightly until sweet potatoes are
glazed. Posted to MC-Recipe Digest V1 #176

Date: Tue, 30 Jul 1996 19:52:15 -0700

From: "Keri, J. (Mike)" >

MMMMM

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Title: Fruit Stuffed Sweet Potatoes
Categories: Potatoes
Yield: 12 Servings

12 Sweet potatoes
2 Sticks butter; softened
1/2 c Half and half
3 lg Granny Smith apples; finely
-chopped
1/2 c Macadamia nuts; finely
-chopped

Heat oven to 325 degrees. Bake sweet potatoes 35 to 45 minutes, or
until cooked. Remove from oven and let cool. Remove a slice off the
top of each potato and scoop out insides of potato. Try to keep the
skin intact. Leave a little potato next to the skin. Place potato
pulp in a large mixing bowl. Add butter and mash thoroughly. (I use a
hand beater.) Add half and half until you have a creamy mixture. Fold
in fruit and nuts and carefully put the mixture back into the potato
skins. Place on cookie sheet and bake for another 30 minutes at 325
degrees.

Recipe by: Molly Walsh

Posted to TNT - Prodigy's Recipe Exchange Newsletter by
(MS MARY E SPERO) on Dec 28, 1997

MMMMM

Kris wrote:
> 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.
>
> Thanks as always,
> Kris

Roast them in their skins until the sugar oozes out then mash. Sweet
potatoes have tons of sugar in them.

Joseph Littleshoes wrote:
>
>
> brooklyn1 wrote:
>> "Kris" > wrote in message
>> ...
>>
>>> 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.
>>
>>
>
> There is that, and the little ones cook so quickly in the oven they can
> be a real treat with ust a dab of butter.
> --
> JL
>
>>
>
For sure, roasted some for dinner last night. Just slow roast until soft
and goo comes out. Really flavorful and we don't add anything before
eating. I always hated sweet potatoes when I was a kid because the usual
method was to bake them with tons of sugar.

"Kris" > wrote in message
...
> 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.
>
> Thanks as always,
> Kris


These aren't sweet but they're nicely spiced and quite delicious.

Harvest Mashed Potatoes

4 large red or russet potatoes (2 pounds)
2 medium-size sweet potatoes (1½ pounds)
1/4 cup butter or margarine
1/2 cup milk
1/4 cup sour cream
1/4 cup freshly grated Parmesan cheese
1 T. prepared horseradish
1/4 t. salt
1/4 t. pepper
1/4 t. ground cinnamon
1/4 t. ground nutmeg

Bake sweet potatoes until tender, peel and mash. Cook russet potatoes (cut
large ones in half) in a Dutch oven in boiling salted water to cover until
tender; peel and mash or press through ricer and combine with sweet
potatoes. Add 1/2 cup butter and next 8 ingredients; mash with a potato
masher or mix with electric mixer until smooth. Bake until heated through
and starting to brown on top. (This recipe assumes you're putting this in a
large casserole dish to bake it.) Serve topped with additional Parmesan
cheese if desired. Yield: 8 servings.

Jill

"brooklyn1" > wrote in message
...
>
> "Kris" > wrote in message
> ...
>> 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.
>
>

Canned butternut squash? Hmmm, I've never seen that. I've seen canned
pumpkin (butternut is in that family). Sweet potatoes in a can are often
called "Yams" even though they technically aren't Yams. And they aren't the
same thing at all as squash. Squash grows above ground. Sweet potatoes are
root vegetables.

Jill

Kris wrote:
> 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.
>
> Thanks as always,
> Kris

Pardon my stupidity, but what is the purpose of getting a child to eat
more vegetables with so much added sweetener that the high sugar count
practically negates the benefits of the vegetable?

On Feb 24, 10:22*am, Janet Wilder > wrote:
> Kris wrote:
> > 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.
>
> > Thanks as always,
> > Kris
>
> Pardon my stupidity, but what is the purpose of getting a child to eat
> more vegetables with so much added sweetener that the high sugar count
> practically negates the benefits of the vegetable?

Well, she figures that sweet potatoes are so highly nutritious that
she'll still be ahead. Plus they're good for fiber.

But I know what you mean. Luckily my kids will eat them without much
adornment. But all moms aren't that lucky.

Kris

On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 08:08:09 -0800 (PST), Kris >
wrote:

>Well, she figures that sweet potatoes are so highly nutritious that
>she'll still be ahead. Plus they're good for fiber.

She might like to try sweet potatoes fries, too. She could bake them.
Frozen sweet potato fries are also available.

Tara

On Feb 24, 5:57*pm, Tara > wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 08:08:09 -0800 (PST), Kris >
> wrote:
>
> >Well, she figures that sweet potatoes are so highly nutritious that
> >she'll still be ahead. Plus they're good for fiber.
>
> She might like to try sweet potatoes fries, too. *She could bake them.
> Frozen sweet potato fries are also available.
>
> Tara

Ooh, never thought of that. There's also the dipping factor, which
would probably appeal to her son.

Thanks,
Kris

There is also a recipe on Food Network that is Paula Dean's. I have made it
a couple of times but all I can remember are roasted sweet potatoes and
bananas. I am sure it involves lots of butter. There is also a crumb topping
with brown sugar but it doesn't really need that.

Not mashed, but if you peel sweet potatoes (or red garnet yams which are
even sweeter), cut them into wedges, toss with enough olive oil to coat,
and sprinkle with your favorite savory spice blend, and roast in a pan
until they are tender, they are incredibly sweet.

WHen I first cooked them that way, I wondered why I had ever eaten them
with brown sugar or other sweetener--they don't need it!

gloria p

Jill replied to Sheldon:

>> 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.
>>
>
> Canned butternut squash? Hmmm, I've never seen that. I've seen canned
> pumpkin (butternut is in that family). Sweet potatoes in a can are often
> called "Yams" even though they technically aren't Yams. And they aren't
> the same thing at all as squash. Squash grows above ground. Sweet
> potatoes are root vegetables.


Sheldon was talking out of his ass again. Canned yams are indeed canned
sweet potatoes, not canned butternut squash.

Bob

It's a lot easier to wean someone off the sugar cooked with vegetables than
to transition someone from nothing but sugar into eating vegetables.

And I make mashed sweet potatoes all the time, boiling dice until soft,
mashing with lo fat yogurt, adding cinnamon and Splenda to taste.

I also sometimes go savory and instead of cinnamon and Splenda, add cumin
and/or smoked paprika to the yogurt, sweet potato mash. In this case, I'll
cook the dice in stock.

"Janet Wilder" > wrote in message
...
> Kris wrote:
>> 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.
>>
>> Thanks as always,
>> Kris
>
> Pardon my stupidity, but what is the purpose of getting a child to eat
> more vegetables with so much added sweetener that the high sugar count
> practically negates the benefits of the vegetable?