sweet potatoes


I discovered long ago that I could get my kids to eat any orange vegetable if I season it with pumpkin pie spices. I decided to take that idea and kick it up a notch and apply it to Sunday Dinner. This is an easy one-pot dinner. It is also quite frugal for a fancy Sunday dinner. Pork [...]

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Since I’ve got five little ones who love to ‘help’ in the kitchen and not a lot of extra time, I like to keep it simple for every day meals so I thought I’d share with you three of our favorite fast and easy ways to prepare sweet potatoes…

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I was chatting with a friend the other day about sweet potatoes…how much Tyler loves them, different ways to cook them, how they grow. I said, “You know, I’ve never grilled them”…

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Scalloped Sweet Potatoes with Ham

by Alea on December 28, 2010

Alea shares a fabulous recipe for scalloped sweet potatoes…not scalloped potatoes. I’m intrigued…are you?!?

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Smokehouse Maple Chicken

by Erin, The $5 Dinner Mom on June 28, 2010

While foraging yesterday, I found some Smokehouse Maple grill seasoning hanging out amongst the other spices in the spice cabinet. Hmmm….let’s try this with some chicken. And I just so happened to have picked up a few packages of chicken at the store this morning. This could not have been an easier chicken to make. [...]

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Sweet Potato Oven Fries

by Erin, The $5 Dinner Mom on November 25, 2009

Looking for another great way to use up those UBER CHEAP sweet potatoes?!? This is a great week to buy sweet potatoes, as many stores have them priced as low as $.25/lb!!! You can also cook, mash and freeze them for use in future meals! If you’ve had your share of sweet potato pie or [...]

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Beef Roast with Garden Carrots

by Erin, The $5 Dinner Mom on October 7, 2009

Pulled the carrots from the garden and cooked them in the slow cooker wtih a beef roast…mmm!

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Zesty Slow Cooker BBQ Beef Roast

by Erin, The $5 Dinner Mom on September 17, 2009

A simple, hands off meal to prepare! I love letting the slow cooker do all the work!

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Spicy Bean Cakes

by Erin, The $5 Dinner Mom on August 11, 2009

Spicy Bean Cakes. Never made them, but they sounded great! Paired with corn and sweet potato circles. A fabulous and tasteful meal!

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BBQ Chicken Pizza

by Erin, The $5 Dinner Mom on June 16, 2009

Cheeseless Pizza? For real? I thought it was pretty good! Really???

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