This is the traditional ‘better than Boston Market®’ recipe for mashed sweet potatoes. Easy to make and tastes great! If you’re looking for the best recipe for this traditional holiday favorite, look no further.
Healthy Side Dishes
Low-Fat Celery and Peas with Cream
An edit of another recipe found on Allrecipes, changed to reduce the fat.
Christmas Roasted Vegetables
An exquisite dish of roasted winter vegetables, flavored with seasonings. It’s a great side dish for beef, as well as pork and poultry.
Quick and Easy Black Beans and Rice
This is a recipe I use in lieu of kidney beans and rice because I just happen to love the flavor of black beans. We never have leftovers of this side dish!
Roasted Delicata
This yummy side goes great with any dish. Serve delicata halves with any main dish. Yummy!
Carrot and Sweet Potato Tzimmes
This is a favorite from my childhood – my mother would make it for festive meals.
Fiery Baked Beans
Beans pack more protein than any other plant food, plus fiber, zinc, potassium, magnesium, calcium and iron — with plenty of antioxidants and little fat. Warning: This baked bean recipe isn’t for the timid.
Potato Medley
I used this recipe when I was fasting for 30 days of no meat and have been using it ever since.
Sun-dried Tomatoes II
Cherry tomatoes are easily dried in a food dehydrator. When I make soup or stew I throw in a handful, and they taste like they were just picked. You could also rehydrate them in warm water for some other use.
Blister Beans
Use your favorite beans if you do not like these. Tasty beans without the sugar. I love the fiery taste of Tabasco™, but you might want to back off that ingredient to remove some of the blister.
Brandon’s Squash Surprise
Mashed delicata squash that is so yummy you’ll think you were eating mashed sweet potatoes!
Pinto Beans Muy Facil
Pinto beans muy facil (very easy). Put them in a slow cooker before you go to work and they should be ready that evening.
The Very Best Confetti Rice
Rice tossed with dried fruit, nuts, orange zest and green onions. It’s very colorful and very tasty. You can use lemon or orange zest, raisins or dried cranberries, and any kind of nut you prefer. It’s a recipe that’s easy to mold to your tastes. The way I wrote it here is my favorite combination and always a hit with guests.
Cuban Inspired Millet
My Cuban suegra taught me how to make a sofrito. I used this same process (without tomatoes and plus a carrot) to enhance millet. Serve warm or cold.
Roasted Vegetables with Spaghetti Squash
This is a great fall dish. Roasted veggies sit on a bed of spaghetti squash and are topped with a little melted cheese. Note: vegetables can easily be substituted. I have made this many times with whatever is on hand. However, when I can, I try to use mostly root vegetables in yellow and orange colors.
Jenni’s Italian Farro Pilaf
This is a versatile dish. Substitute rice for farro if needed (though farro is worth hunting for) or add a pound of meat (diced chicken works well) to make this a main dish for 4.