When I shared the Slow Cooker Baked Potatoes a few weeks back, I didn't realize that I had never shared the Slow Cooker Sweet Potatoes on this site. We have these often, especially in the winter months...and of course at holiday meals. I love using my slow cooker to make sweet potatoes because it's one.less.dish.in.the.overcrowded.oven. So...here they are...sharing them at … [Read more...]
Alea’s Slow Cooker Stuffed Sweet Potatoes
{Repin It!} My kids and I love sweet potatoes, but my husband isn't as fond of them as we are, so I am always trying new ways of serving sweet potatoes to make them more appealing to him. When I adapted my Twice Baked Potatoes recipe and replaced the potatoes with sweet potatoes I finally found a recipe that he really liked. I usually bake sweet potatoes in the oven. But … [Read more...]
Alea’s Ginger, Sweet Potato and Bean Soup
I know sweet potatoes and beans combined with Asian seasonings sounds like a crazy combination. You are just going to have to trust me on this. This soup is seriously delicious! It is also fast and easy to make, filling, and frugal. I pulled this soup together in under 20 minutes. I was able to do that because I had cooked rice on hand. If you don't have cooked rice you … [Read more...]
Alea’s Slow Cooker Pork Chops and Sauerkraut with Sweet Potatoes
Last weekend I had a batch cooking day. I made large batches of rice and bean, chopped onions, peppers, and tomatoes, grated cheese, browned hamburger, and batch broiled chicken. Despite all of the cooking, I wasn't actually assembling any dishes. I was just loading my freezer with prepped ingredients to make it easier to assemble dinners on busy nights. I know from … [Read more...]
Alea’s Pork Roast with Pumpkin Pie Spiced 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 roasts go on sale for as little as .99 cents a pound in my area and sweet potatoes have … [Read more...]
Denise’s Baked Sweet Potato Fries Recipe & 3 Simple Ways to Prepare Sweet Potatoes
We live in an agricultural area and the kids have enjoyed watching the crews harvesting sweet potatoes as we drive by on the way to school over the past month. It's very interesting how they bring in a couple of old retrofitted school buses early in the morning and fill them completely up by lunchtime while pulling the sweet potatoes out of the turned earth by hand to keep … [Read more...]
Grilled Sweet Potato Fries with Cinnamon and Maple – Memorial Day Recipe
So 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." She replied, "Me neither...but I'll let you figure it out and I'll wait for the post on the website." Naturally, I turned to grillmaster Bobby Flay for his help. Well, I didn't ask him … [Read more...]
Scalloped Sweet Potatoes with Ham
I was unable to find a small ham for our Christmas dinner, so I went ahead and purchased a large one. I have had fun coming up with new ways to use the leftover ham, especially since this has given me an excuse to play with some of my Christmas presents. My entire family loved the scalloped sweet potatoes with ham, giving it the highest compliment in their vocabulary, "this … [Read more...]
Smokehouse Maple Chicken
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. It went something like … [Read more...]
Sweet Potato Oven Fries
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 casserole, then give these a try with the extras! Would be delicious with a BBQ Turkey … [Read more...]