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Posted by Troll
- January 31, 2015, 19:23:23 PMPosted by greenbarn
- January 31, 2015, 10:47:43 AMHmmm... I'm not too sure about that, John. I've never tried them that way. It might be really good, but here again- you're cooking it like a white potato and it's not a white potato so I'm afraid you'll be disappointed...
Posted by John Hopkins
- January 31, 2015, 09:26:53 AMI've just steamed one with some carrots and potato's and will serve it to my son with roast chicken breast and gravy to see if he will eat it..
John.
Posted by greenbarn
- January 31, 2015, 08:30:35 AMJohn, you don't want to give up yet...
First start calling them "yams" ---there is a slight difference between an actual "yam" and an actual "sweet potato", but who cares - they are bot similar in nature (to each other) but like you said - they are not much like a regular potato. Maybe if you think of them as Yams, you won't be expecting a "potato" and maybe will like them better for what they are.
Next- like some others have suggested - try some different recipes.
Troll's in the oven is good - just baked, and add butter - cinnamon and a little brown sugar if you like. Delicious.
Fries: this is how missus GB makes them - cut in strips bout the size of your fingers. Spray or brush on a wee bit of olive oil. 350 in the oven until they are getting a little crispy on the edges - I think this is about 20-30 minutes - might want to stir them up a bit half way through. Add some sea salt when they're done. These are great.
Sweet potato pie- now that's a great thing....
Posted by Troll
- January 30, 2015, 18:31:54 PMMy Grandmother, who was the worst cook in recorded history spoiled my first encounter with sweet potatoes. It took me until 2012 to try them again...now I can't get enough! John, just slit it stem to stern, just through the skin to vent it, stick it in the oven at 350 for about an hour...Some people add cinnamon butter, but I found they are great plain...they will literally fall out of the skin....a wonderful surprise when I found that they didn't have to taste bad.....and the sweet potato fries are GREAT.....My Step daughter brought over a BIG bowl of mashed ones at Thanksgiving...she used a commercial chicken broth as the liquid rather than milk, when the mashed them...outstanding!
Posted by chief
- January 30, 2015, 18:10:47 PMSP fries are pretty good... they just aren't potato-y. You bake them, add butter and they taste pretty good. Boil them, they are sweet. They are sweet and don't remind me much of potato in taste. My wife loves them, me not so much.
You likely got the Kenyan variety, since they have been heavily imported into the UK recently. Before you give up entirely, look online and try a couple of different recipes. In the south we do Sweet Potato pie... reminds me of pumpkin sorta.Posted by John Hopkins
- January 30, 2015, 15:31:01 PMOk, I'm 71 and this week I bought some sweet potato's for the first and last time.
I have to admit this comes under the heading of foreign food as far as I am concerned, I can't really see what it is good for!
It doesn't make a good french fry (chip) it doesn't roast properly, not much good as a mash, in fact however you cook it something tastes and feels wrong about it.. no matter what I do to it I can't make it taste like a spud..Why on earth do they call it a sweet POTATO.
I reckon when they discovered this some foreigner was eating it and the explorer couldn't understand the local name for it, probably Darwin, he had a habit of saying things just to upset people..
John.