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Tuesday, December 7, 2010

Sweet Potato Biscuits


Tonight we made a big salad for dinner. It was a nice change from all of the soups and rich holiday food we've been eating. We needed a little something more, though. It's been bitterly cold (for Kentucky) lately. So when we got home tonight with cold noses and toes, we needed something more than salad. Luckily I remembered that I had some sweet potato biscuits squirreled away in the freezer. In twenty minutes we had steaming hot biscuits to accompany our salad. Perfect.  


I've tried a couple of sweet potato biscuit recipes lately. One is from here. Stephanie's biscuit photos are beautiful. Swoon-worthy. Her recipe is top-notch, too. It makes a savory biscuit that would be great accompanying soup (we had ours with miso sweet potato soup) or alongside a salad.  


I also tried a recipe that my mom passed along to me. It's from a restaurant called Blue Pete's in Virginia Beach where she ate sometime around 1978. She'd saved the sweet potato biscuit recipe all these years and to my knowledge never made it. I thought the time had come. When I had her over for dinner a couple of weeks ago I made the Blue Pete's recipe. It was definitely a hit. This recipe makes biscuits that are a bit on the sweet side. We had them with dinner, but I think they would be better for breakfast. You could even play up the sweetness by adding a little cinnamon to the dough or serving them with maple syrup. 


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Have you tried any new recipes lately? I'd love to hear about them.


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P.S. To all of you lovely readers who have left comments lately: Thank you. They always make my day! Soon (oh so soon) I will be on winter break and can't wait to visit your blogs once again. See you then.

7 comments:

  1. You've almost inspired me to bake...almost. When the exhaustion wears off, I'll have to try this recipe. I'm not a big biscuit eater, but I'm wondering if it's just because I haven't found the right recipe (good philosophy for life, eh?).

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  2. I see these in my baking future...especially during the winter break where one actually has time for such things.

    I haven't been too experimental in the kitchen as of late. I'm just trying to get through these last seven school days. The kids are NUTS; both my own and my 22 at work.

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  3. This looks like a wonderful recipe and is a nice change from the norm. Thanks for sharing!

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  4. Ooo! I've never heard of SWEET POTATO biscuits before! I'll definitely be bookmarking both recipes to try. Thanks for sharing :) Maybe I can try them this winter, too. Happy baking :)

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  5. Sweet potato biscuits are an all-time favorite in this household. I used to sneak them to my kids without them knowing just how good-for-them they are. Yum. We're getting into the Christmas baking swing around here....Lots of sweets.

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  6. About a week ago, I was on a major sweet potato kick. I ate so many! The funny thing is, I never used to like them. I'll have to pick up some more next time I go to the store. And then try these biscuits!

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  7. These look wonderful!

    Let's see. Smittenkitchen has a recipe up now for garlic roasted mushrooms that looks awesome. I see that in my future!

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