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I love sweet potatoes! I absolutely love sweet potato casserole. My mother in law made one this last thanksgiving that was to die for. It tasted like pecan pie. Had pecan, brown sugar and all sorts of other stuff..mmmmmmm...

I tried the sweet potato fries at sidelines the other day. Sweet potato french fries covered in powdered sugar. Was very good.

Cracker barrel has a pretty decent sweet potato as well.

Anyone have any suggestions on where to get some really good sweet potato casseroles or the like?
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I bake mine for about an hour at 400 degrees then put a little LandOLakes butter on it and a touch of brown sugar and cinnamon...you can do them in the microwave as well.

Sidelines fries are good...and easy to do at home...

Mom always put marshmallows on her casserole and I've seen it done with your favorite nuts, some brown sugar and butter crumbled together...

I've never had the casserole at cracker barrell I will ahve to try that...
I believe Flotown is referring to a "yam" when speaking of white sweet potatoes. A yam and sweet potato are NOT the same thing although the terms are often confused and used interchangeably.

A good article explaining the difference can be found at:
http://homecooking.about.com/od/howtocookvegetables/a/sweetpotatodiff.htm

Sorry- I can't post a direct link, so you'll have to copy and paste.
Best sweet potato chips in Alabama are served at the restaurant at the Beach Club on Fort Morgan Road. Worst ones I ever had were at the Bronzeback Cafe at the Shoals Mariott--soggy and dripping with grease. That was over a year ago and they might have gotten better over there. I told my server that their chips were the pits. The rest of my meal was quite good.
No, Lynn they are definiely not the same thing, but they are similar. Many people count them as the same, but you can taste a big difference and the color like I said is big time different. It is more hassle I guess to cook and peel sweet potatoes as opposed to picking up a can of yams for a casserole, but the real sweet potatoes make a better tasting meal.
A really easy way to remove the peel: Bake the sweet potatoes in the oven UNWRAPPED on a cookie sheet until they are mushy all the way through, then after they have cooled, the peeling practically separates itself from the flesh inside. Plus by leaving them unwrapped, the peel toughens up which makes it really easy to scoop all the potato out. Then you can use the inside to make a casserole or just add a little butter and cream for mashed sweet potatoes. They're usually sweet enough when they're baked out well that no added sugar is needed. Yum!!!
Although the terms are generally used interchangeably, the US Department of Agriculture requires that the label "yam" always be accompanied by "sweet potato."

Sweet potatoes are not even potatoes! In fact, they aren't even distant cousins. Potatoes are tubers from the solanaceae family. Their genus is solanum. Sweet potatoes are part of the morning glory family (Convolvulaceae). Their genus is ipomoea batatas.

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