Pioneer Woman at Heart

I have found several ways to store up my sweet potatoes this winter.  Aside from the potato bin indoors, and the burlap bags in another cool/dark room, I am stocking them up in other recipes. Ginger-Brown Sugar Sweet Potato Butter. This is a Better Homes and Gardens canning recipe, but it is not boil canned. It goes in the freezer.  Recipe is not online, but is in their magazine (Canning, preserving, freezing and drying) and book I believe. Frozen Mashed Sweet Potatoes.  I had been told by so many people "you can't freeze potatoes."  I beg to differ.  You can, but you bake and mash them first.  I add nothing to them. I have been very successful with this process (this works well with white potatoes as well).  I bake the sweet potatoes, mash them, and freeze them on a baking sheet in 1/2 cup servings.  I take them out, and place them in container or freezer bags and simply heat in the oven when needed for meals.  I used...

A few months ago, I baked organic sweet potatoes, mashed them, then froze them , bagged them separately, and then put those bags into one large bag. I know it's only been four months, but I dug someone for dinner the other night to test them for the first time.  Even though they were bagged tw i ce, I still had some ice on them. They were delicious, and tasted as if they were baked.  They were thick and tasty.  It was like eating a baked sweet potato without the skins.

The grocer had organic sweet potatoes in stock, so I took advantage and brought some home.  I'm freezing them for winter meals. Yesterday, I baked several, then allowed them to cool completely.   I added a bit of water and organic broth to the pan.  I pierced each sweet potato a few times before placing in the covered pan.