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Amazing and Shocking New Ways to Use Sweet Potatoes

The best, and often worse than useless, advice on the care, management and utilization of sweet potatoes. A list inexplicably created and compiled by Cokato, Minnesota attorney Thomas B. James, Esq., who usually isn't this weird.

Source: https://www.amazon.com/Tuber-Tips-sweet-potato-recipes/dp/1946397059/

1. The primordial Tuber Tip, first posted to Facebook on November 6, 2014

Tuber Tip #1.

If you are interested in purchasing a sweet potato but are having difficulty locating one, look in the produce section of your local market. Then, if you do not find one there, try an alternate source.

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Sweet POtato costume

Sweet POtato costume

Don't know what school has a sweet potato mascot. (And no, this isn't what you think. It really is a sweet potato costume.

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Identifying sweet potatoes

Identifying sweet potatoes

Tuber Tip #2:

People sometimes wonder whether there is any difference between canned sweet potatoes and the sweet potatoes you find in the produce section of your local market. One big difference is that a can of sweet potatoes is cylindrical. A sweet potato, on the other hand, is shaped like a human spleen, except it is bigger and not as spleeny.

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Tuber Tax Tip

Tuber Tax Tip

Tuber Tax Tip

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In some situations, you may be able to deduct the cost of sweet potatoes; in others, you may not. Whether you can or not, though, they are delicious with butter.

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Philosophy

A day without sweet potatoes is like a period of time without sweet potatoes.

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Recipe: Mashed sweet potato

Recipe: Mashed sweet potato

Mashed Sweet Potato

1 sweet potato

Preheat oven to 400°F.

Using a fork or similar device, poke holes in the sweet potato. Then place it on a baking sheet lined with foil. Bake 45 minutes to 1 hour, until tender. Remove from oven. Slice it open and scoop out the contents onto a plate. Squish it around with a fork. Let it cool enough so that it doesn’t burn your tongue or other tissues in your alimentary canal upon ingestion. Eat it.

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Washing sweet potatoes

To avoid excessive noise while preparing sweet potatoes for cooking, try washing them by hand instead of putting them in the washer and dryer. This may also help prevent your tubers from leaving that Febreze aftertaste in your mouth.

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Recipe: Sweet Potato on a Stick

Sweet Potato On A Stick

1 sweet potato
1 stick

Preheat oven to 400°F.

Using a fork or similar device, poke a few small holes in the sweet potato. Then place it on a baking sheet lined with foil. Bake 45 minutes to 1 hour, until tender. Remove from oven Put a stick in it.

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Store etiquette

As good as roasted sweet potatoes are, it is recommended that you wait until you get home to prepare them. Some grocery store managers have an aversion to customers building campfires in the produce section.

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Proverb

Give a man a sweet potato and he will have a meal for one day; send him out to fish for sweet potatoes and you should have enough time to eat that meal before he gets back.