Sweet potatoes (and yams) don't suck

Spin off of the dark vs light meat fight thread. 

Sweet potatoes are great! 

I don't mean buried in marshmallows and baked until sticky and messy. 

I'm talking sweet potato fries. Roasted Sweet potatoes and bacon. Cubed and roasted sweet potatoes with Mexican spices as a base for a taco salad, in lieu of rice and or beans. 

Brown sugar for the win. 

Sweet potatoes and bacon

The Champ, sweet potato fries

Taco bowl with sweet potatoes

This is how I do them.

I’m in for the sweet potato fries.  We make sweet potato steak fries by cutting them length wise, throw them in a bowl with olive oil, a little rosemary and some salt and pepper.  425 oven on a cookie sheet, turn them a couple of times.  Good stuff. 

*noiseless rage*

I just want them with lots of butter.  

Nope. If I want potatoes I damn well don't want them to be sweet.

There's not a single recipe that can't be improved by replacing sweet potatos or yams with real potatoes.

Marshmallows on sweet potatoes is disgusting. 

I've never met a potato I didn't like.

Posting in this thread because I don't want to have to fight someone over their preference in tubers. I am surprised by the passion of some folks in their strong opinions on the matter. 

Peace and love on Thanksgiving to all.

So many sweet potato varieties

Made a pie for Thanksgiving using Beauregards. Other than slightly overbaking it, it was delicious. Recipe called for a tablespoon of orange zest which really added a nice touch to the flavor.

We often use Garnets when cooking. Less sweet and a nice addition to grilled fish.

well, everything is better deep fried.

In reply to ShawnG :

Marshmallows on anything, especially a stick in a fire, are disgusting. 
Not a fan of this "sweet" potato

I'm not a huge fan of regular potatoes, but sweet potato fries are yummy.

Any of it.  Just no.

They good.  The only thing that sucks about them is the skin isn't all that edible.

Adrian_Thompson (Forum Supporter) said:

There's not a single recipe that can't be improved by replacing sweet potatos or yams with real potatoes.

I do not believe this line of reasoning is applicable to sweet potato pie.

I generally don't like sweet potatoes (especially with marshmallows, yuk!), but - we kind of have to have them at Thanksgiving, and my wife adds a secret ingredient that actually makes them very tasty - 2 shots of bourbon along with the brown sugar.  That's in the sweet potatoes, not in a glass alongside, although bourbon on the side pretty much makes anything better.

In reply to Jim Pettengill :

At the dinner table and playing FPSs.  I do not suggest using bourbon to make one's welding skill better.