Sweet Potato

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Yes we love them in our house!
I also use them in everything too! I also add them to the roasting tin with the norm roast pots, put them in veggie curry and stews and yesterday i made a minestrone type thing and it went into that too.
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My friend gave me some sweet potato and carrot soup, it was delicious. I have seen them but not tried one myself, they look a bit knobbly, might get one next time I shop.

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Love them here as well. Tonight I just had them mashed with butter accompanying fish, broccoli and carrots.
I also have a dish with mushrooms and spinach in a peanut butter sauce....lovely.
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We love them in our house too. My kids like them sliced into thick slices, sprayed with a little olive oil and baked. :-D Yum :-D
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We would eat them every day! Having said that, hubby went shopping one night and got 3, 1kg bags for 10p each - you'd be surprised how creative I got!

I even made sweet potato muffins - bit like carrot cake, and a great recipe for vegetarian burritos which freeze, wrapped in single portions and microwave from the freezer to make a handy, delicious, instant snack.

I must admit, I was dissapointed when the 3kg ran out :)

Had them in with other roasted veg and sausages last night (a la Bury-of-Sains) and wish I'd put more in.


Ooh, had a busy night, need to cook )c+

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Yeah, he buys all sorts of c***! He can't resist a bargain. I don't mind really. It makes us more adventurous.

I'm really trying to buy seasonally at the moment. I very much doubt that sweet potatoes have a UK season!

Still, can't resist them )c+
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love them as well, Adsa are quite good they do there own brands for £1.00 each.
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They are lovely roasted with olive oil, rosemary, garlic!

They have got more expensive though!


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yup yup yup, love em too.

In roast veg, in curries, in mash with ordinary potatoes or carrots, or turnip.
Baked, soup with other root veg. ( parsnips|) oh all this lovelt autumnal food..

now why didnt i take a picture of that??

great.

Oh and some times chop a spring onion in them as mashed as well.

Nice ideas here..

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Jen your b/f seems to love sweet potato even though he is unaware of it!
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I have a big dish of veg roasting and there is sweet potatoe in there as well. Lovely.
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Try Lidl, not as expensive in there.
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They harvested them on Gardeners World last week so they're difinitely seasonal at the moment.

We might be able to grow them next year (f+
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Good Idea Jackie

Next year i am doing some rasied beds!

I get lots of ants in my garden they are just about everywhere!


I little worried they will eat everything! :shock:

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Before we moved to France we lived in the cambridgeshire fens and one day when my wife went into the local market town supermarket and asked for sweet potatoes....


the shop assistant offered her .....

"Desiree...they're quite sweet!"

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