The OTHER Potato
>> Saturday, 25 July 2009
It peels just as easily, it cooks faster and it can be prepared very much the same way as you’d prepare the English potato – baked, boiled, mashed, sautéed and even be made into chips and fries. Which potato is it? The sweet potato! Click here for this week's column to find out more about the white-fleshed sweet potato. In the column you will also find the method for preparing all the dishes you see below.
Sweet Potato Pie
Sweet Potato Salad
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The white fleshed sweet potato is what we commonmy find in India. I was surprise when I ahs the orange fleshed ones here. I feel, the white fleshed ones aren't as sweet at the orange fleshed ones.
I don't know that we get the white fleshed sweet potato. I will have to look.
White, orange, or otherwise, I ADORE sweet potatoes!
Loads of great ideas there.
And YAY for Mahimahi.
Your photo is great, love that presentation.
LL
Cynthia you forgot to mention in your article the most important way we Bajans like sweet potato...as the main ingredient in our pudding from pudding & souse :)
Wonderful potato, though I've never seen a white fleshed sweet potato... I would love to try one :)
What delightful creations! So yummy looking! I love that potato...
Cheers,
Rosa
The white ones are much better than the yellow ones.
I'd always thought of sweet potatoes as the "other potato"! I like sweet potato fries, so I think I'll like your oven roasted recipe. By the way...LOVED your guest post on rasa malaysia!
Great ways to cook potato. Amazing pictures.
beautiful as usual and I can get these potatoes here in NYC ...so off to the market I go....
I love sweet potato fries. your photos and recipes never fail to blow me away!
Delicious. I found these for the first time a few weeks ago and made chips with them. They taste like a cross between plantains and Idahos. We loved them. Would love your recipes, too.
I've never liked these, because they aren't as sweet or gorgeously colored as yams, but treating them like a regular white potato is a really good idea. They probably would be great mashed. I have to try that!
I am guilty of overlooking the white sweet potato in favour of his yellow 'cousin'....you have made me rethink my predjudice. That mahi mahi dish OMG! And the name of your restaurant where it will be served please?!
This topic about sweet potatoes made me nostalgic..mouth watering sweet potato dishes.......
I'm familiar with the white fleshed ones....We usually eat them boiled and also the ones cooked(grilled i would say) on hot coal with out flame(should cook with peel on and remove peel before eating).
I am shocked ppl said that this white fleshed one is not as sweet as the orange variety. I find them too sweet actually. I wished they could be a little milder in taste.Also they hold up better. When you fry the orange ones it reminds me of frying pumpkin! You forgot the way that the Bajans eat it on Sundays. Baked and peel off the skin with a hint of butter.These photos are amazing.
Even though i find plenty of sweet potatoes where I live, I hardly ever buy them 'coz of the sweet taste. Your oven roasted version is tempting me into breaking out of that habit, though....
Cynthia-this is my favorite meal!!I love Mahi Mahi the most!!And sweet potatoes are devine.
Yum to all potatoes - I luv em!
I adore all sorts of sweet potatoes, the white, the yellow & the purple ones!!
Your dish looks so appetizing, Cynthia!! Beautiful presented too!
i love mildly roasted potatoes!
wow, so many ways to cook sweet potato! looks sooo yummy :)
Aww the shot with potato and pan seared mahi mahi made me drool! Lovely sweet potato dishes! Oh but I never thought the white fleshed ones were sweet potato coz in my grocery store they are labelled as Yam. Or is Yam another name for sweet potato?
Cynthia I have been crazy about these potatoes for weeks!
I first tried them some time ago but have only just started to use them again - this is because you can't buy them everywhere here.
I LOVE this post and your column!
All of the pictures look so so tasty Cynthia thanks for the great post.
Great potato dishes...love the one with the fish.
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all those looks fantastic and interesting ideas with sweet potatos.
The savoury pie sounds interesting. Does it have slices of sweet potato, or is it mashed?
mmmm, sweet potatoes, yumm! I've only cooked with sweet potatoes once and I loved them. You have so many awesome dishes to try I don't know which one to choose!
the mahi mahi dish looks a-m-a-z-i-n-g :D
seems that sweet potato fries is the new hit in Canada.. one of the best fish and chips joints (by "their" account) serves those wedges of fried sweet potato, dusted with some sort of seasoning. Still have to try it.
BTW the light purple colour (flesh) sweet potato we get in the Caribbean is probably the sweetest you'll ever eat.
I love how you paid homage to the sweet potato that I love so very much and it is really a coincidence how we both blogged about this humble tuber ( the light yellow fleshy one! Your pictures are beautiful and presentations are ready to eat!
i love the sweet potato!! and your pictures are awesome :)
Great idea to use this kind of potato. All dishes look delicious. I loved all ways and would love to try.
Grest photos!
I love sweet potatoes especially with aioli. Beautiful pics.
I love that "mountain" of sweet potato - the first photo. Very pretty. How are you? Can you come to BlogHer Food in San Francisco?
it's been a while my friend! i love sweet potatoes even if the love is not entirely shared with tom i often make sweet potato dishes at home. so sweetie you can imagine that this is perfect for me. off to read the column. hugs!
I love love love sweet potato wedges! and even mashed up sweet potato-or roasted ones.. oo..decisions decisions!
I love sweet potato but i find those sold here a bit mushy. Even when i broiled in the oven they are still too mushy. Do you have this problem?
Wow Cynthia that's a sweet potato feast!, lovely pics as usual!!
Your posts always made me hungry! :)
Wow...the so many ways of preparing dishes with potato and all look yummy!
I adore sweet potatoes. The man I'm with does not. In fact, absolutely cannot eat them.
So maybe I'll just have to make myself a bundle of those sweet potato fries - just for me??? Yes!
I barely use sweet potatoes .. after reading this post I may be tempted to use them
I love sweet potatoes. Reminds me of my grand dad who roasted it on a charcoal roaster sorta thingy used to roast coffee beans and force feeding us :D
Thank you so much for the ideas...somehow I always buy them, and most of the time I let them go bad so the lack to ideas...again thank you! Lovely pictures...they look so yummie!
Hi Cynthia, love the differennt recipes , its a sweet potato fest , i liked it a lot as a child, would even eat it raw n now my son loves it
How gorgeous every dish!
Hi Cynthia, guess iam coming here after quiet a long time, your food posts just keeps getting better :) Great pictures, and that Mahi mahi and and wedges are making me hungry :)
Oh yum! What gorgeous pictures! I'm all about potatoes.
Yum!!! Every single one of these dishes look FANTASTIC :) Georgia grows a ton of sweet potatoes--I might have to hit you up for some recipes!
I do like sweet potatoes a lot, sometimes I think, more than the white potato. I like how rich the colors are in the picture!
Othe other white potato...and a really good one, even though the orange one is easier to find. Love all the ways you have prepared it, although the wedges are my fave.
Oh my goodness...I had never even HEARD of the white fleshed sweet potato, but what an introduction. And I am also intrigued by bjangyal's mention of them as an ingredient in pudding!
Ooooh yumm , loads of sweet potato around here, never seen a white one but lots of orange and purple ones.
Delicius food, your blog is amazing,
I love it, I´m going to visit all recipes...
A kiss from Spain
wow all the pics r just gorgeous!!!!
The sweet potatoes we got in india used to be white... don't see them here. those fries are ahs! & ooohhhhs!;-)
I love this sweet potato, it has always been my favorite thing in metemgee. I love the creative use of it here, as Guyanese we never really think outside the box with those ingredients. Good job!
Sweet potatoes are my favorite vegetable. So tasty and also healthy for you. I love all the photos!
Sweet potato wedges are an absolute favourite around my house - although we predominantly seem to get the orange-fleshed ones. Yum!
Cynth!
I didn't even know that there is a white-fleshed sweet potato! How lovely!
Curious to know if my grocery store carries it.
The chips sounds the best for me...
cheers!
Gabi.
Sweet potatoes feature regularly in my kitchen ever since I discovered they are a treasure house of nutrition...lots of new ideas here to try...lovely pictures too :-)
sweet potato salad, girl I know I love you.
love that pineapple on the baked sweet potato. thank you!
Hi Cynthia,
Amazing shots of Mahi Mahi. I will try Baked Potatoes over the weekend. Your site is a great visual delight.
Great narrative style!
Cheerz
Ashwini.
Cynthia, I LOVE sweet potatoes!! Those sweet potato wedges look delicious too! I'm going to make those...I can taste them already. :-)
~Keva
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