Category Archives: Sweet Potatoes

Baked Sweet Potato “fries”!

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Fresh Sliced Sweet Potatoes
Sweet Potato Slices on Cookie Sheet
Sweet Potato “Fries”

Here’s a great way to make a nutritious side dish — or excellent snack — from sweet potatoes.

  1. Heat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit on convection roast (or 365 without convection)
  2. Wash and cut an unpeeled sweet potato into thin slices.
  3.  Spray a cookie sheet with non-stick spray oil (or use a spray device to thinly coat the cookie sheet with olive oil).
  4. Place slices onto the cookie sheet and bake for 20 to 22 minutes (to desired texture).
  5. If a more crispy outer edge is desired, briefly pan-fry (use a thin coating of olive or other oil — pecan oil adds an interesting flavor!) the slices.
  6. Serve Hot!

Harvesting Sweet Potatoes

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This is the first year we tried to grow sweet potatoes and we were pleasantly surprised when we realized how well they grew! Continue reading →

Fresh Sweet Potatoes from the Garden

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Sweet Potatoe Tubers shown, Sept. 2014

Sweet Potatoes, Sept. 2014

Although sweet potatoes grow until frost kills the vines, I decided that it was time to see what I had growing in the garden.

Since this is my first attempt to grow these nutritious tubers, I am happily surprised to find these. Just to make sure I had at least a few, I planted about 30 slips (sweet potato vines).

So, there are about 29 more waiting to be harvested! I think I’ll let them grow until frost, then surely I’ll have a year’s worth! (The plate in the photo is 10.25 inches in diameter. )

These are truly a vegetable well-adapted for southern gardens! Sweet potatoes are planted in May and harvested at frost, after the vines die back and growth stops. This means the vines must endure the summer heat in Texas (and other southern states) as well as temperatures below ground that would normally cause white potatoes to rot.

These are the Beauregard variety. Now, to clean them up and prepare for supper!