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A Sandwich a Day: Crema Café's Sweet Potato Sandwich in Cambridge, MA
Interesting vegetarian sandwiches are hard to come by, so I was excited to hear about this combo that features sweet potatoes ($6.95). The spuds are cut into slabs and packed between toasted Iggy's wheat slices with avocado, thin-sliced green apple, creamy hummus, and sprouts, and lightly dressed with caramelized shallot vinaigrette. Besides the sweet-tart mix of flavors, there's a lot going on texturewise with the creamy and crunchy elements, all of which adds up to a pretty satisfying study break snack.In Season: Sweet Potatoes
You say potato, I say potahto. But the sweet potato is something different altogether. Despite the similar name, this orange tuberous root is only distantly related to the potato proper. In the States, they're often candied using brown sugar, marshmallows, maple syrup, molasses, orange juice, marron glacé, or other sweet ingredients. When julienned and deep fried, they become crisp sweet potato fries or chips, and when topped with brown sugar and butter, they can be a great alternative to regular baked potatoes.The Food Lab Thanksgiving Special: The Best Roasted Sweet Potatoes
OK, so sweet potatoes are sweet, but they're not that sweet, right? I mean sure, you could go add maple syrup or honey with marshmallows on top, but I wouldn't wish one of those monstrous casseroles on my worst enemies, let alone my own family (though come to think of it, there's some pretty significant overlap between those two groups). Much better than those casseroles are really well-roasted sweet potatoes. At their best, they're creamy, flavorful, and sweet with a slightly crisp, caramelized crust. Too often though, they end up mealy, starchy, and bland. How does one get a sweet potato to really live up to its name?Thanksgiving Sides: Sweet Potatoes
Some of you probably grew up with marshmallow-topped sweet potato casseroles, or yams candied with brown sugar. But why not add a new sweet potato dish to this year's Thanksgiving spread? These are looking mighty fine to me.Market Scene: Smyrna Farmer's Market in Atlanta, Georgia
A friend recommended I visit the Smyrna Farmer's Market and I thought this would be a great subject for Serious Eats. The market turned out to be a very small outfit, maybe 10 vendors, in the First Baptist Church parking lot. I made the best of it and visited each vendor. They were a nice mix of wholesome products for the body (soap, lotion), produce (sweet potatoes, zucchini, crabapples) and even a few baked goods (Greek pastries and a retail chain bakery). Having never worked with crabapples before, I was intrigued. I purchased a few pounds of them and decided I'd make jelly.Serious Salad: Thanksgiving in July
It only seems fair I take up the challenge to show them that Thanksgiving can be vegetarian—and pay tribute to my fellow foodies, who dream of basting turkeys while they baste themselves in the sun—in July. And yes, for those who eat meat, you can easily substitute real turkey for my vegetarian option. Thanksgiving, in July or November, means something for everyone.Raleigh Farmer's Market: Sweet Potatoes, Fried Green Tomatoes and Goat's Milk Custard
[Photographs: Chichi Wang] Around this time of year the Raleigh Farmers' Market in North Carolina abounds in sweet potatoes. The state leads the country in sweet potato production—more than forty percent, in fact, of the national harvest. In addition to the more familiar kinds, farmers sell varieties you've probably never heard of. Hernandez and Beauregard sweet potatoes, and my favorite, a variety called "White Batus," which a nearby sign described as "very ugly but very sweet." I roasted all three varieties and found that while the Hernandez and Beauregard potatoes were mildly sweet with a moist orange flesh, the White Batus were exceptionally sweet with dense, creamy interiors. After all that sweet potato shopping, I ate at the State...The Secret to Adam Perry Lang's Amazing Sweet Potatoes: Bananas
[From left: ©iStockphoto.com/YinYang and ©iStockphoto.com/luxcreative] Sweet Potatoes with Banana and Brown Sugar View the complete recipe here » If you're in Thanksgiving side dish panic mode, you can relax now. Trust me. I was there myself yesterday. Until it came to me in a seriously delicious dream: Chef, barbeculogist, and cookbook author Adam Perry Lang used to send over these amazing sweet potatoes along with his incredible smoked short ribs. But he would never give me the recipe, no matter how many times I asked. Fast forward to yesterday. We had posted a bunch of recipes from Lang's book Serious Barbecue (yes, we do love the name here at HQ), but somehow I had never thought of looking in...Mixed Review: Paula Deen's Sweet Potato Biscuits
"Paula's face smiled up at me from the packaging, her familiar gray bob frozen into place, her lips shellacked with frosted pink gloss." [Photographs: Lucy Baker] Last week, in Ed's Brooklyn Star review, Ed deemed chef Joaquin Baca's biscuits "probably the best in newly biscuit-crazed New York." This so-called biscuit craze isn't limited to the Big Apple: all over the country people are harkening back to a time when food was simple, unfussy, and honest. Out with the fusion and small plates, in with the fried chicken and family-style menus. It's no wonder then that the humble biscuit is having a renaissance. Is there a more modest, straightforward food out there? I don't think so. Of course, biscuits are a...Hot Topics: Technique of the Week | The Food Lab
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Some might say that chocolate on Valentine's Day is about as unoriginal as you can get. We all remember the first heart-shaped box of overly sweet chocolate bonbons from grade school Valentines. But chocolate gift-giving needn't be a cliché. This year, let's bake our sweethearts chocolate cakes and pies instead! Here are 8 delicious recipes perfect for celebrating your love (of chocolate.)
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