Easy Roasted Vegetables

Who doesn't love sweet potatoes?

Okay,

put your hands down.

I don't especially have any kind of fond feelings for the over-sized red/orange vegetable myself.

I have childhood memories of gagging on the things.

Not fond at all.

I think the first time I had any kind of inkling that they might actually be edible

was when I tasted them buried in marshmallows and brown sugar.

But then, there isn't too much that wouldn't be edible in that condition...

well, except pickles,

or beef tongue,

or fish.

All right; I admit that marshmallows aren't really the cure-all for everything.

Sweet potatoes are another one of those

"so nutritious you'll live 100 more years if you eat them" foods,

or something like that.

According to World's Healthies Foods website

this is what the sweet potato provides the best of:

Sweet Potato 1.00 cup baked 114.00 grams 102.60 calories
Nutrient	Amount	DV (%)	Nutrient Density	World's Healthiest Foods Rating
vitamin A	21908.52 IU	438.2	76.9	excellent
vitamin C	22.34 mg	37.2	6.5	very good
manganese	0.57 mg	28.5	5.0	very good
vitamin B6	0.33 mg	16.5	2.9	good
tryptophan	0.05 g	15.6	2.7	good
potassium	541.50 mg	15.5	2.7	good
fiber	3.76 g	15.0	2.6	good
vitamin B5	1.01 mg	10.1	1.8	good
copper	0.18 mg	9.0	1.6	good
vitamin B3	1.70 mg	8.5	1.5	good

World's Healthiest Foods Rating	Rule
excellent	DV>=75% OR Density>=7.6 AND DV>=10%
very good	DV>=50% OR Density>=3.4 AND DV>=5%
good	DV>=25% OR Density>=1.5 AND DV>=2.5%

 Benefits from the sweet potato come in the form of antioxidants, anti-inflammatory nutrients, and blood sugar-regulating nutrients. 

So when I went into the charity store to pick up their old bread for our pigs to eat

and saw 3 cases of sweet potatoes sitting on the ground for anybody to take

(and very obviously, they were not being taken in any kind of hurry),

I grabbed up a couple hand fulls to try to force my children and husband at home to eat...

and, of course, myself.

I decided to try them using a favorite way of cooking vegetables:

baking them

(I use this same recipe for cooking a variety of vegetables.

This recipe came from a Pampered Chef stoneware cookbook).

I use it to cook asparagus with mushrooms and potatoes,
potatoes with garlic and parmesan cheese,

and as a dish of onion and mushrooms.

It is a great recipe for different vegetable combinations.

So, sweet potatoes were the subject this time.

After pouring a bit of olive oil in the bottom of the cake pan,

I cut up a small onion,

and cut the sweet potatoes

as well as some regular red potatoes

in wedge fry style.

I then collected some spice ideas from various sources online

and came up with one I thought would be most satisfactory to our family.

After coating the fries,

I put them into the oven and cooked them,

stirring once or twice during the cooking of them,

for about 30 minutes til they looked crispy.

They were indeed a hit,

at least for my Farmer and me.

As for the kids,

well,

I didn't see any gagging and there were no marshmallow cover-ups,

so I think it is fair to say it passed...

and when they reach the age of 110,

 they can thank Mr. Sweet Potato for it.

See my other recipes from my 31 days of recipes for October posts.


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