Things to do with sweet potatoes

I used to drop them into a nearish food bank, secretly, but it means I miss my bus and have to walk quite a way, and I'm not very energetic lately.

You'll just have to tell her that, although you like them, your DGS isn't keen and you have plenty to keep you going.
Someone else might be glad of them.

You can have too much of a good thing.

I like sweet potatoes now and again, I bought some a few days ago already cut into wedges, so I added a drop of oil and put them in the oven. I added a bit too much oil and they were
oily/soggy and went into the bin.
One of my favourite ways is adding them to one of my winter soups with onions/carrots/turnip my soup always thickens up
and is delicious with some crusty bread. I suddenly feel hungry.

I think I might see if there are any potato salad type things I can make with them.
Not sure I'd like it, but as someone says, it's such a waste if they don't get used.

Oh, I wonder if I could make potato scones or something? With cheese?
Fritters?

I bake them for my elderly dog who is recovering from Pancreatitis. He has a mixture of Sweet Potato, Pumpkin Purée, ground Turkey and all mixed together with some baby food. He is thriving on this low fat diet.

MissAdventure…I don’t think this info, is going to help you in any way but mashed with butter and S&P they are delicious.

Bbcgoodfood, search sweet potato there are lots of recipes., soups curries etc.

I bake them and then soup them. Not as good as proper baked potato soup but I tend to make soup from whatever's around. They make a good bulker along with butternut squash for stews and soups etc. They are good curried, even gently curried: plenty of cumin does a lot for them.

MissAdventure

I think I might see if there are any potato salad type things I can make with them.
Not sure I'd like it, but as someone says, it's such a waste if they don't get used.

I wouldn't be spending time and fuel cooking something I don't really like - I assume you've already tried to bribe your GS to have some!

You're gonna have to get tough and refuse - after all she's just passing on the problem to you!

I know.
She's 95 though.
She loads me up with everything she doesn't want.
I barely make it to the bus stop some weeks.

Chicken, sweet potato & coconut curry It is on bbc good food site. I swap the coconut for cream .

First time I ever had them was when an American friend served us mashed sweet potato topped with toasted mini marshmallows with turkey at a Thanksgiving dinner!

We prefer them baked or in a lamb curry. Nice mashed half & half with ordinary potatoes as a topping for curried shepherds pie. I’m going to try the soup ideas on here though.

Oh I’ve had that marshmallow thing….found it most unpleasant !

Just found this.

1 ¾ cups sweet potato shredded (I used about half of a nearly 1-lb. specimen)
1 large egg
salt and pepper to taste
olive oil for greasing the pan
optional seasonings: garlic powder onion powder, smoked paprika, paprika, chili powder, basil, oregano, herbs de provence. I used ½ teaspoon garlic powder and dashes of smoked paprika and chili powder.

Potato fritters.

INSTRUCTIONS
Shred 1 ¾ to 2 cups of sweet potato using a cheese grater or by processing in a food processor (I used the regular blade on my food processor and it worked fine). Start preheating a skillet or frying pan over medium heat. Add the egg to the sweet potato and whisk until combined. Add seasonings to taste (just a dash of each).

Lightly grease the pan by trickling a few drops of oil onto the pan and spreading them around with a spatula—you don’t need a lot. Using a spoon or a quarter cup measure, plop about ¼ cup of the sweet potato mixture into the pan at a time. Mixture will be very loose and may fall apart in the pan—that’s okay. Use your spatula to nudge all the sweet potato scraps into a neat pile and press down on the top with the back of the spatula to flatten. Let cook about 2-3 minutes before flipping. If the patty starts to fall apart when you try to flip it, cook it longer

I've got a recipe for sweet potato!
Wrap all sweet potatoes up in a paper bag or cardboard container. Take container out to compost bin. Lift compost bin lid up and deposit the container, and sweet potatoes, into the bin. Replace lid. Leave for 12 months. When nicely rotted down, apply to your rose beds.

You're welcome!

Great topping mashed on Shepherd's pie.

Delicious curries.

My daughter made this cheesecake...
www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/nov/18/sweet-potato-recipes-purple-mash-peanut-fritters-cheesecake-yotam-ottolenghi

Carrot and sweet potato soup.
Cook with onions, garlic, stock, then blend, serve with a dollop of yoghurt and some fresh coriander if you have it.

Chewbacca ?

Actually, those fritters do look as if they might be tasty, MissA

You could mix them with ordinary potato as a topping for shepherd's pie - do you think your DGS would notice?

I tried mixing ordinary spuds with sweet potato and put it on a shepherd's pie but the GC asked if I'd put sugar in it. It really is very sweet. And sloppy.

Sweet potatoes (Kumara) were a staple food of the Māori, brought with them to New Zealand.
They must be good for you because the Maori tended to be a tall, strong and healthy people.

Excellent Callistemon, can you put them in touch with MissAdventure? She's got a load she's hoping to get rid of!

I cut them into circles and roast them in a good covering of oil, but find I have to brown them really well or almost burn them for crispness.

I’d mix some grated cheese with that recipe MissA just to disguise the sweet taste and then burn them a bit as well.
How kind of your elderly neighbour. My nan always gave Apples to her carers from her trees in the garden. It was her way of paying back and they never refused her even though they must have been sick to death of them.

Misadventure Does anyone actually like them?
Yes, me I think they are delicious, cooked every which way. Some yummy ideas on here.