Why are Sweet Potatoes not more popular?
So why, one simply can't help but wonder, are sweet potatoes used so infrequently in the West, compared to - for example - old favourites like Maris Pipers or King Edwards? I believe it comes down simply to a lack of awareness on the part of the general public at large. A great many people will have seen sweet potatoes in their local supermarket, but may simply have no idea as to how to cook them and with what to serve them. It is my fervent hope and intention that here I may change situation that in at least some small way...
Contents of this Healthy Sweet Potato Recipes Site
What you will find on this site
- Are you Aware Just how Healthy Sweet Potatoes Are?
- Healthy Poached Chicken on Sweet Potato Mash Recipe
- Would You Like to Know More About Gordon Hamilton, the Author of this Page?
- Healthy Sweet Potato Recipes Product of the Month: July 2009
- Do you want to look for your own Healthy Sweet Potato Recipe Books on Amazon?
- Sweet Potato Recipes on Hub Pages
- What should I have for dinner tonight?
- Do You Have a Blog or Website?
- Healthy Lamb and Sweet Potato Casserole Recipe
- Some of My Other Healthy Eating Sites on Squidoo!
- Sweet Potato Recipes on Flickr.com
- Sweet Potato Blogs
- More Sweet Potato Sites on Squidoo
- The Five Dollar Vacation
- What Should I Have for Lunch Today?
- Have you tried sweet potatoes?
- Do you Create your own Recipes? Would you like to Earn Money from them?
- Sweet Potato Recipes from around the Web
Are you Aware Just how Healthy Sweet Potatoes Are?
Check on the link below and you may just be surprised!
- The nutritional value of sweet potato
- A number of studies have suggested that the sweet potato is the most nutritious vegetable we can eat, bar none. Its complex blend of dietary fibres...
Healthy Poached Chicken on Sweet Potato Mash Recipe
Sweet potatoes can be used to make mash in exactly the same way as any other variety of potato. It is absolutely delicious on its own or with a couple of simple ingredients added. It goes well with a great many different types of meat, particularly chicken or lamb. Find the recipe for this dish and lots more by clicking on the link below:Poached Chicken on Sweet Potato Mash Recipe
Would You Like to Know More About Gordon Hamilton, the Author of this Page?
He writes on a lot more subjects than food and drink
Gordon Hamilton is the Food and Drink Channel Steward on Helium.com. The site which is linked to below is essentially Gordon Hamilton's Home Page on the Web and will provide far more details as to who Gordon Hamilton is and what he writes about in general. The main subjects he writes about these days are the actual Business of Writing, Business Advertising and Marketing, Food and Drink, Personal Finance and Travel but he also from time to time covers a lot more.-
Gordon Hamilton
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Gordon Hamilton has been a Freelance Writer, writing for and creating Web 2.0 sites on the Web since April 2007. The first site which he joined was Helium.com, followed by Squidoo in August 2007 and Hub Pages a month later. Those three sites remain t...
Healthy Sweet Potato Recipes Product of the Month: July 2009
Do you know a bargain when you see it?
This month, I am featuring the cookbook detailed below which offers an abundance of recipes both for those familiar with sweet potatoes and those cooking with them for the first time. This really is one of those books that has something for everyone!
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If you happen to be in either the United States or the United Kingdom, clicking on the relevant link below will take you directly to the appropriate Amazon book store and allow you to search easily through thousands of titles on just about any subject you can name. What not give it a try and see what I mean? The bargains to be had are incredible, I promise you!United States' Amazon Book Store
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Sweet Potato Recipes on Hub Pages
My hand-picked list
- Baked Spicy Tofu & Sweet Potato: Recipe
- Tofu is one of our regular foods, that is a food that we eat 3 to 4 times per month as a main course. I enjoy baked tofu, tofu stir fry and even have a tofu lasagna recipe which I will share in a later hub. ...
- Easy coconut-crusted citrus and sweet spiced sweet potato recipe. Fantastic!
- This is really popular at my Caribbean restaurant. The hint of cinnamon combined with the crunchy coconut makes a really exotic and delicious tropical combination. Serve this with simply grilled chicken...
- Sweet potato casserole recipe
- This is a very easy side dish to make and if you have kids they usually don't complain about eating it because it has the word sweet in it! Good luck!
- Great Sweet Potato Recipe
- This is my all time favorite sweet potato recipe. I always make this dish when I'm having someone new over for dinner - they are always impressed and it is such a simple recipe! Thyme Red Pepper Sweet Potatoes...
- Sweet potato fritters with scallion pesto recipe. A delicious and elegant starter.
- These sweet potato fritters with the easy to make scallion pesto are fantastic. They've got a bit of chile, and they're crunchy fried, and they look beautiful topped with the emerald green scallion...
What should I have for dinner tonight?
How often do you ask yourself this question?
Fetching RSS feed... please stand byDo You Have a Blog or Website?
Have you promoted and marketed it effectively?
The site linked to below guides you through the process of optimising your site by employing such as site directory submissions, blogs and links of all shapes and forms in an easy to follow, step by step fashion.-
How to Promote and Market a Website
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As I have often said, to a great many people, what precisely is the point of having the fanciest, all-singing, all-dancing website in the world...if no one ever sees it? Stop and think about it for a minute: how many newspapers would continue to be p...
Healthy Lamb and Sweet Potato Casserole Recipe
Lamb is very commonly accompanied by or even prepared with sweet potatoes and spices in Middle Eastern cooking. This simple yet delicious recipe pictured right can be found, along with many others, by clicking on the link below:Healthy Lamb and Sweet Potato Casserole Recipe
Some of My Other Healthy Eating Sites on Squidoo!
Recipes, Tips and lots more...
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Healthy Fish Recipes
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There are a great many different foodstuffs which I would class among my favourites but fish and seafood probably rate at the very top of the list. I love the freshness and delicacy of the flavours in fish and carefully experimenting with different w...
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Healthy Cooking Recipes
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Welcome to my site on what are - unquestionably - the universally relevant subjects of food and cooking and a comprehensive yet easy to follow look at how we can revolutionise our eating habits in order to make them more healthy. I hope you will enjo...
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Healthy Beef Recipes
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This is where, as the title would suggest, I will be sharing some of the healthy recipes I have created using beef, from minced or ground beef to larger cuts or joints and steaks. I very much verge upon being a carnivore by nature and sometimes actua...
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Healthy Pork Recipes
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Pork, ham and bacon - they are of course all sourced from the same animal (a pig) and healthy recipes featuring all of them will therefore feature here at some stage. As on all my healthy eating sites, the emphasis on this site will be very much...
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Healthy Vegetarian Recipes
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This site may ultimately prove to be something of a challenge for me, as if there is one thing I cannot claim to be, it is a vegetarian. That, however, does not preclude me from creating healthy and tasty vegetarian recipes, nor from - on occasion! -...
Sweet Potato Recipes on Flickr.com
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Sweet Potato Blogs
Not that these titles will change automatically on a daily basis
- How Sweet The Sound: Sweet Potato Salad
- I made this for the first time for our Fourth of July dinner. I found the recipe at the Good Housekeeping website, and I decided to give it a try. 3 pounds sweet potatoes, peeled and cut into 1-inch chunks...
- I Can't Find The Recipe Book That Came With My Crockpot And I Want ...
- The book came with my Rival crockpot. The recipe has sausage, potatoes and corn. I can't find the book any more and it is such an easy recipe. My family eats it. ... 1 Make a layer of potato in the bottom of the crock pot. 2 Then make a layer of carrot and sweet potato. 3 Put in the sausages and pour over the soup. I used about a ¼ cup of water to swirl out the last of the soup from the tin. 4 Put in the Crock Pot and cook for 8 to 10 hours on low OR 4 to 5 hours on high. ...
- Recession Recipes » Crispy Chicken Fingers with Sweet Potato Fries
- So it is only fitting that we start reblogging today with a tasty Crispy Chicken Fingers with Sweet Potato Fries recipe that both little and big kids can enjoy. I found this recipe for chicken fingers in one of my Fitness magazines ...
- Sweet Potato Fries Recipe | {365} Days: Path towards Raw Elite ...
- I am absolutely in love with Sweet Potato Fries. They take less time to make then baking a sweet potato whole, so why not make them? The ingredients I use.
More Sweet Potato Sites on Squidoo
Check these out for even more information and great ideas
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Sweet Potatoes: Healthy, Tasty, and Versatile
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Yes, sweet potatoes come in a can, in gelatinous chunks destined to be covered with marshmallows. If that's your idea of sweet potato perfection, stop reading this lens. If you'd like something different - and much healthier - on your tab...
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How to Make a Sweet Potato Shake
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Fast and easy recipe for a highly nutritious delicious alternative to a milk shake.
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Sweet Potato
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I love sweet potatoes! My favorite snack is Sweet Potato Pie! This lens is to share with you some recipes, stories and facts about sweet potatoes.
The Five Dollar Vacation
An international charity project devised by Gordon Hamilton
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The Five Dollar Vacation - A Worldwide Charity Project with a Difference
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It may seem strange for a Briton like me - who has never even so much as visited the United States - to talk about the five dollar vacation when of course this title would perhaps seem slightly less mysterious as his creation were he to brand it, "Th...
What Should I Have for Lunch Today?
The latest postings on a blog featuring some great ideas
Fetching RSS feed... please stand byHave you tried sweet potatoes?
Are you going to do so now?
Stumble It!
Thank for your visit to my site and for taking the time to look through it. I hope I have improved your knowledge regarding and ultimately your appreciation of sweet potatoes.
I would appreciate it if you could spare just another couple of moments to let me know in the space below your overall opinion of this page.
Thanks again.
Lizblueberry wrote...
I adore sweet potatoes! I make a great sweet potato souffle.If you ever want the recipe.. just ask!!
rms wrote...
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AppalachianCountry wrote...
We have used thyme but not red pepper in sweet potatoes. We'll have to try it. Wonderful lens.
x3xsolxdierx3x wrote...
Great lens! One can do quite a bit with sweet potatoes :) 5 stars
Do you Create your own Recipes? Would you like to Earn Money from them?
This blog is an ongoing record of practical tips and advice for new writers of all descriptions...
If you get pleasure from dreaming up your own recipes - whether including sweet potatoes in them or not - are you aware how easy it is to make money from them by sharing them online? This blog will take you by the hand, show you precisely how to go about the process of doing so and provide you with practical tips and advice on an ongoing basis in the long term.
Fetching RSS feed... please stand bySweet Potato Recipes from around the Web
Have a look at some of these delicious recipes incorporating sweet potatoes. Vote for your favourite or, better still, add a link of your own!
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Recipes: Baked sweet potato fries - by Gordon Hamilton - Helium
Sweet potato fries are not only infinitely more ta more...1 point
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Sweet Potato Gratin
A delicious recipe by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall more...0 points
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Honey Chicken Pan-Fry with Lemon and Sweet Potato
This sweet and zesty supper dish is ready to eat i more...0 points
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Leek and Sweet Potato Soup
Very few ingredients, quick and easy to prepare an more...0 points
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Griddled Gammon with Roasted Sweet Potato
by Paul Rankin on the BBC Food site.0 points
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My name is Gordon Hamilton and I live in the United Kingdom. As well as writing on Squidoo, I am the Food and Drink Channel Steward on Helium.com....
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