Tuesday eating from your yard tip~sweet potatoes have lovely sprawling foliage and produce the food under ground. Due to the same lovely sprawling foliage ornamental sweet potato vines are popular in pots, so if you go to the nursery to buy sweet potato plant make sure to specify that you would like a plant that actually produces sweet potatoes. The best crop we ever had was during a garden party young Corey and Elise Freudenburg buried a sprouting sweet potato. In the Fall we split a bountiful harvest of sweet potatoes. With Thanksgiving coming up baked sweet potatoes topped with marshmallows is on many minds. Sharon Ohmberg roasts chunks of sweet potato with brussel sprouts and beets that have been tossed with olive oil and salt and pepper. When they come out of the oven, she tosses it with fresh spinach leaves, a vinaigrette, pecans and goat cheese crumbles. How about baked sweet potatoes paired with apples and cinnamon? There is also sweet potato pie or my favorite sweet potato fries. Glen Perkins sent me a recipe for sweet potato hummus. How do you eat sweet potatoes?
- Jill Kuhel
