Some days you feel more restless in the kitchen than others. Nothing I had planned to cook in the next week looked interesting to me. So, I started rummaging around my pantry and fridge. I came up with sweet potatoes and garlic from my garden, cauliflower, frozen peas, a half used bag of spinach, canned…
Category: Sweet Potatoes
Pasta with Roasted Winter Vegetables
Sweet potatoes, butternut squash, Brussels sprouts, kale – who says the winter is boring? I still have sweet potatoes and butternut squash from the garden (and garlic, of course). I am always surprised by how long they keep, two years ago, I had so many butternut squash, we were still eating them the following May!…
Sweet Potato Baked Ziti
Welcome to my world of experimenting with sweet potatoes. Stews, ravioli, latkes, casseroles, cassoulets…why not baked ziti? The sweet potatoes added a nice bright flavor to the ricotta cheese. I could have eaten the cheese mixture by itself – really, taste it when you mix the sweet potatoes and cheese, you’ll see what I mean….
Fall Harvest Cassoulet
Emily was home after a food-filled Thanksgiving with her grandparents. She was complaining about feeling stuffed and gaining weight, so I wanted to make a healthy, tasty vegetarian dinner using some of the sweet potatoes from my garden to get her off to a good start this month. Aside from the sweet potatoes, I had…
Sweet Potato Latkes
For anyone who has not had enough sweet potato casserole, here are some latkes that are perfect for you. These sweet potato latkes are less savory than most of the latkes I make, so they are best as a snack or side dish. We had them with applesauce, but I was really tempted to melt some…
Sweet Potato Casserole
Every year the sweet potato casserole is a subject of debate – pecan crumble or marshmallows. We are fairly split – everyone else wants marshmallows, I want pecan crumble. Since I am cooking, this time I win, and it is pecan crumble (last time it was marshmallows). One thing does stay the same – I…
Sweet Potato Beef Stew in the Slow Cooker
This is my last sweet potato post from my garden this season. That makes me sad, but pleased that I have had enough to get me this far. For a while we had access to locally-grown, grass-fed beef. During that period, I used to make a lot of beef stews. One that I grew particularly…
Sweet Potato Ravioli with Brown Butter Sauce
This recipe is an adaptation of another fabulous recipe from Diane Morgan’s Roots cookbook; what an amazingly wonderful surprise this book has been! The sweet potato ravioli is a bit of a “cheat”, you use wonton wrappers instead of making fresh pasta dough for the ravioli. It worked os well, I will no longer hesitate to try…
Cauliflower and Sweet Potatoes
In the days leading up to Thanksgiving, I try to make dishes that vary greatly from what I will be serving on Thursday. Sunday was my birthday and we went out for sushi, Tuesday, broccoli kale quiche, Wednesday is Moroccan spaghetti squash. Monday was Indian cauliflower and sweet potatoes, based on a Bal Arneson recipe….
Breakfast for Dinner – Brussels Sprout Hash
I was trying to figure out what I wanted to do with the brussels sprouts in my fridge when I came across a posting on How Sweet It Is for Brussels Sprouts Breakfast Hash. Perfect – breakfast for dinner, one of my favorites! Plus, it calls for a sweet potato, so it would also be…
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