{"id":1614,"date":"2012-08-06T03:04:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-06T03:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/?p=1614"},"modified":"2020-04-15T12:47:50","modified_gmt":"2020-04-15T19:47:50","slug":"sweet-potatoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/sweet-potatoes\/","title":{"rendered":"Sweet Potatoes"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Potato Info<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Sweet Potato &#8211; yellow variety<\/li>\n<li>Yam &#8211; 1930s orange variety of sweet potato<\/li>\n<li>Related to morning glories, not potatoes<\/li>\n<li>Sweets available year round &#8211; Flavor peaks in fall and winter<\/li>\n<li>Heavy for size &#8211; no soft spots or sprouts<br \/>\n&#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.saveur.com\/gallery\/16-Shades-of-Sweet\/\">FROM HERE<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Speckled Purple &#8211; remain firm after cooking<\/li>\n<li>Heirloom (Envy) &#8211; light, mild, moist, sweet<\/li>\n<li>Jewel &#8211; Deep orange &#8220;traditional&#8221; sweet potato<\/li>\n<li>Garnet &#8211; Red\/purple skin &#8211; best for sweet potato pie<\/li>\n<li>Korean Purple &#8211; chestnut flavor<\/li>\n<li>Beauregard &#8211; most commercial because of consistency<\/li>\n<li>O&#8217;Henry &#8211; Beauregard mutation &#8211; Dense when baked<\/li>\n<li>Creamsicle &#8211; good for frying<\/li>\n<li>Willowleaf &#8211; fairly rare &#8211; orange\/red skin, orange flesh<\/li>\n<li>Covington &#8211; malty sweet &#8211; popular in the south<\/li>\n<li>Nugget &#8211; rosy skin, orange flesh &#8211;<\/li>\n<li>Amish Bush Porto Rico &#8211; Grow in bushes &#8211; velvety and lush flesh<\/li>\n<li>Purple &#8211; Pleasant tartness<\/li>\n<li>Stokes Purple &#8211; Purple throughout &#8211; low moisture content &#8211; low heat<\/li>\n<li>White sweet potato &#8211; Half Russett, half sweet &#8211; crumbly, dry, less sweet<\/li>\n<li>Japanese Sweet &#8211; Okinawa &#8211; Tan skin &#8211; one of the most versatile<\/li>\n<li>Boniato &#8211; Caribbean &#8211; dry white flesh, purple skin<br \/>\n&#8211;<\/li>\n<li>Keep in dry cool, well ventilated<\/li>\n<li>Bruise easily<\/li>\n<li>Bake in the oven &#8211; takes an hour<\/li>\n<li>Steam &#8211; convenient, quick, predictable<br \/>\n&#8211;<\/li>\n<li>Uniform cubes<\/li>\n<li>Steam 20 minutes<\/li>\n<li>Put hunks back in and add 2 TBL butter and salt<\/li>\n<li>Mash them<\/li>\n<li>1 chipotle minced &#8211; 1 tsp adobo sauce<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Baked Sweet Potato<\/h2>\n<p>Sweet Potatoes and Yams are not starches.&nbsp; Trying to lose weight?&nbsp; Here is a great alternative for your potato fix.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ingredients<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1 Sweet Potato<\/li>\n<li>2 TBL Oil<\/li>\n<li>Salt \/ pepper to taste<\/li>\n<li>2 TBL Butter<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Instructions<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Preheat oven to 400\u00ba<\/li>\n<li>Decide how you want to prepare your potato.&nbsp; See below:\n<ul>\n<li>Whole:&nbsp; Rub with oil, sprinkle with salt, bake 45 minutes<\/li>\n<li>Medallions:&nbsp; Toss in oil and salt, bake 40 minutes<\/li>\n<li>Pieces:&nbsp; Toss in oil and salt, bake 35 minutes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>After baking, apply butter somehow<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Potato Info Sweet Potato &#8211; yellow variety Yam &#8211; 1930s orange variety of sweet potato Related to morning glories, not potatoes Sweets available year round &#8211; Flavor peaks in fall and winter Heavy for size &#8211; no soft spots or sprouts &#8211; FROM HERE Speckled Purple &#8211; remain firm after cooking Heirloom (Envy) &#8211; light, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/sweet-potatoes\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sweet Potatoes&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grandpas-private-collection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1614"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19381,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1614\/revisions\/19381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}