Sweet potatoes...am I late to the game?

[Kittykath]

As a lifelong potato junkie, I've finally discovered that sweet potatoes can be enjoyed beyond baby food and Thanksgiving. Restaurants are offering sweet potato fries instead of french fries. Healthier or not, I'm in love with this spud.

From sweet potato pancakes, to mashed, to loaded baked, I never seem to have to fight the family to eat them. Do you have camping-friendly recipes to share?

[LindaAnn]

Baked sweet potatoes with butter and cinnamon sugar--yum!

[snowdance]

Kittykath wrote:
And how does a person half these things the long way without cutting off a digit or two?

Not as hard as you may think.. Place a good size knife where you want to cut. Do not push down to hard and rock the tater back and forth. The kinfe works as a wedge. Not so much cutting it but spliting it..

[raindove]

I love the sweet potato fries. Sometimes I have them sprinkled with cinnamon/sugar.... other times I salt them and use a raspberry vinagrette on them. Yummmm.....

[Kittykath]

And how does a person half these things the long way without cutting off a digit or two?

[Fish__n___Grits]

There are lots of ways to eat sweet 'taters, but I think my favorite is baked, split and covered with pork chop gravy.I just can't escape my raisin'!

[hitchup]

About two years ago, we started eating frozen SP fries. Then last year, we began ordering Sweet Potatoes instead of Baked/Mashed at restaurants.

So it was an easy transition to buying the plastic wrap ones to microwave. Finally, a few months ago, I got brave and now use standard SP's and microwave them.

Have found a SP Biscuit recipe on I.am.your.pancreas blogspot with honey. Paula Deen also has one I want to try, but I never have any leftovers. We can use one SP cut in half for the both of us.

[RoadLife]

We love this recipe: peel and slice sweet potatoes. Place in one layer on baking sheet. Very lightly salt. Drizzle with Extra Light Virgin Olive Oil. Sprinkle with crushed Rosemary. Bake 20-30 minutes until done. TASTY! You can add carrots to the mixture too.

[Cybergrunt]

I'm not a big sweet potato cook, but I do like sweet potato tots:
Partially cook several whole sweet potatoes in boiling water for about 15 minutes. Remove them to cool for awhile. Cook up bacon (1 strip of bacon for each potato) until crisp. Chop up the bacon. Remove the potato's skins and then shred them (box grater, food processor). Put the shredded potatoes on paper towels and squeeze them to get as much liquid out as possible - this is really important or they will fall apart when cooked. Now mix the potatoes, chopped bacon, a couple pinches of kosher salt and some flour (1 tablespoon per every potato). Using a spoon, your hands or even a small ice cream scoop, form the tots. Fry them in oil at 300-325 degrees F (I use a cast iron skillet) for a couple minutes (outside is crispy).

[snowdance]

While reading your post I am eating our camp breakfast. Pan fried onions, mushrooms, squash, bell peppers, red beans with chopped up sweet taters served with sausage. We use sweet pototoes most all the time. We usaly peel them and put them in the microwave until most of the way done. Then store them in the fridge. We can slice them and pan fry them in butter. You can add them to most any thing just by cutting them up and serve as a crunchy part of the meal. Also as they are most of the way cooked you can made wedges from them and put in oven and serve as tater wedges. We use only butter, salt, pepper ect on them never any thing sweet.