A Handful of AC Holiday Sweet Potatoes Recipes

From Everyday to Exotic, Yams Are Key to Thanksgiving Bounty

What are you taking to Thanksgiving dinner this year? Are you making sweet potatoes or yams for the festive feast?

Several Associated Content writers have offered super tips for cooking up delicious and healthy holiday sweet potatoes and yams.

What are AC writers' top tips for making yummy yams and super sweet potatoes?

Sandy Peterson boils sweet potatoes (with the skins still on them). After they cool, she peels and mashes them, adding butter, a small can of evaporated milk and some salt and pepper. Finally, she tops her sweet potatoes with her own signature raisin and chopped pecan topping and bakes them.

Kay Whittenhauer says she loves to bake her sweet potatoes. Then she scoops out the insides and mashes them with drained fresh pineapple. She refills the sweet potato skins, tops them with mini marshmallows and broils them until they turn golden brown.

Sevastian Winters barbecues his sweet potatoes for an hour. Afterwards, he scoops out the insides, mashes them well and mixes them with butter, milk and brown sugar.

Personally, I like to slice sweet potatoes thinly (using a scalloped edge knife) and bake them in the oven until they are crispy. I often serve sweet potatoes as ultra-healthy oven-baked fries - on Thanksgiving or even on family hamburger nights. (Crispy sweet potatoes are not bad with ketchup, according to my kids.)

Don't these sweet potatoes sound delicious for Thanksgiving or any festive feast?

A Roundup of AC Recipes for Holiday Sweet Potatoes and Yams

AC has a wealth of content on holiday sweet potatoes and yams. Several Associated Content writers have published recipes for holiday sweet potatoes and yams.

For example, C.J. Mathis offered a recipe for "Sweet Potatoes and Yams." Emili Lauble presented a recipe for "Holiday Sweet Potatoes." David Leavitt posted "A Killer Recipe for Thanksgiving Sweet Potatoes." Pam Gaulin wrote a recipe for "Candied Yams."

Mandy Leonards published a recipe for "Mashed Sweet Potatoes." Charlene Collins penned a recipe for "Twice Baked Sweet Potatoes."

Holiday Sweet Potatoes and Yams with Apples