Posts Tagged ‘sweet potato’

Recipe: Candied Sweet Potatoes

Ingredients

  • 4 medium sweet potatoes (or one huge one!)
  • 1/2 cup dark brown sugar
  • 1 cup orange juice or 3/4 cup apple cider plus the juice of one lemon
  • 1/2 cup sherry (optional)
  • 1/4 cup butter

Directions

Peel and cut the sweet potatoes into 1 1/2-2 inch chunks. Steam the potatoes until tender. In an ovenproof casserole (or an aluminum foil loaf pan), melt butter with brown sugar and stir in sherry (optional). Stir in the juice.

Put sweet potatoes in the casserole dish and coat well with the butter/sugar mixture. Bake in a 350°F oven for 30 minutes, turning to baste potatoes with liquid every 10 minutes.

Recipe: Winter Squash or Sweet Potato Bread

Ingredients

  • 3 c. sugar
  • 1 cup oil
  • 4 eggs
  • 3/4 cup milk
  • 2 cups pumpkin or sweet potatoes, cooked and pureed
  • 3 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 1/2 tsp. salt
  • 1 tsp. cinnamon
  • 3 tsp. baking soda
  • 1 tsp. nutmeg
  • 1 tsp. ground ginger or 1 Tbsp. chopped candied ginger
  • 1 cup chopped nuts, pumpkin seeds, or sunflower seeds (optional)

Directions

Cook the squash or sweet potatoes by peeling and steaming until tender. Whisk together the milk, eggs, and sugar. Add the squash or sweet potatoes and mix to blend. Mix all the remaining ingredients except the nuts in a separate bowl. Combine the wet and dry ingredients and add the nuts. Grease and flour a bread pan or muffin tin. Fill pan half full. Bake at 350 degrees for approximately 1 hour (35 mins for muffins). The bread is done when a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.

SquashFest

Title: SquashFest
Location: At the Market
Description: Help us celebrate the season with pumpkin painting, games, stories, recipes, samples, and our Biggest Sweet Potato contest!
Date: 2009-10-17
Start Time: 8:00 am
End Time: Noon

Eno River Farmers Market Will Hold SquashFest on Saturday, Oct. 17, 2009

Hillsborough, NC (October 3, 2009) – The Eno River Farmers Market at the Public Market House in historic downtown Hillsborough will celebrate SquashFest on Saturday, October 17 from 8 am – Noon.

The festival will feature more than a dozen varieties of squash, pumpkin, and sweet potato in every size, shape and color, all harvested by the market’s local farmers. Varieties include Blue Hubbard, Long Island Cheese, Acorn, Butternut and both orange and white sweet potatoes.

Recipes will be provided for soup, main dishes, side dishes and baked goods. Vendors will offer samples of recipes they have prepared.

There will also be activities for children, including pumpkin painting, and a reading of seasonal stories.

In addition, the market vendors will have their usual abundance of fresh, local vegetables.

The Eno River Farmers Market offers farm-fresh, organic produce, cheese, meat, eggs, baked goods, prepared foods, and crafts from local growers and producers. It is open to vendors who reside and produce the items they sell within a 60-mile radius of Hillsborough, NC. Vendors must be the original producer of their items.