She Says: BSI – Sweet Potatoes 2 Ways
In making my BSI submission recipe for this wake I realized that sweet potatoes might just be one of my favorite foods. They are versatile, delicious and nutritious. All star ingredient chosen by sweet Melissa.
One way I like to enjoy sweet potatoes is mashed, with the skins on …
with bananas.
I know the white blobs look like butter, but they’re bananas and they melt in the warm mashed potatoes just like butter! All you do it clean, cut and cook the sweet potatoes in water. Then, when they are soft enough that you can easily put a fork through them, drain and mash. Add a banana, mash some more and enjoy.
I can’t entirely take credit for this idea. I starting adding bananas to mashed sweet potatoes after making Rachel Ray’s Sheperd’s Pie.
Tonight, I used the sweet potato banana mash as the basis for a “pita pizza.” I made another batch of these wraps, but I made on particularly thick and spread the sweet potatoes right on the thick wrap/pizza. Then I added sauteed spinach and roasted eggplant and popped it in the oven heated at 350* for about 10 minutes. As I suspected, the bitterness from the veggies was the perfect compliment to the sweet potatoes.
Tags: banana, eggplant, spinach, sweet potatoes, Wrap
November 15th, 2008 at 11:02 pm
Sweet potatoes = DEFINITELY one of my favorite foods. I eat them at LEAST 4 times per week
Love your BSI pizza!!
November 15th, 2008 at 11:02 pm
I LOVE SHEPHERDS PIE!!! Thanks for adding the link, I still have yet to try mashing them, I have a recipe I have been meaning to try!!! Love yours:)
November 15th, 2008 at 11:05 pm
that pita looks so good!!! i never would have thought to put a sweet potato as a “sauce”. sounds so good!
November 15th, 2008 at 11:09 pm
Heaven!
November 15th, 2008 at 11:26 pm
I actually thought those white blobs were marshmallows! LOL. But definitely overall, it looks delicious! Yum!
November 15th, 2008 at 11:43 pm
great submissions!!!
November 16th, 2008 at 12:00 am
I thought they were marshmallows too!
November 16th, 2008 at 12:09 am
Sweet potatoes and bananas?! That is brilliant. I cannot wait to try it!!
November 16th, 2008 at 12:14 am
Sweet potatoes are totally one of my favorite foods – I would say top 5! That pizza looks great.
November 16th, 2008 at 3:32 am
Both those recipes look great- I like the idea of adding banana because it would add some sweetness without being Too sweet. Also, I got lucky enough to buy ASICS on sale before I knew anything about them and absolutely Love them. Not a huge runner; but with these shoes I’m hoping I may turn into one
November 16th, 2008 at 5:03 am
bananas in sweet potato that sound soooo good!
November 16th, 2008 at 8:46 am
I love the mashed sweet potato with banana, I’d call it a dessert!!!!!
November 16th, 2008 at 9:00 am
bananas & sweet potatoes – totally indulgent – yum!
November 16th, 2008 at 10:40 am
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November 16th, 2008 at 10:49 am
Pita pizzas are good no matter what but the stuff you added to your’s makes it all kinds of yum!
November 16th, 2008 at 11:14 am
I would have never thought to put bananas in sweet potatoes. Love your pita pizza!
November 16th, 2008 at 11:20 am
Sweet potatoes are obviously one of the world’s greatest foods.
November 16th, 2008 at 11:26 am
Um, you lost me with the bananas!
I definitely like sweet potatoes more than I did before the BSI, but I don’t like them by themselves. My mom bakes them and puts butter and maple syrup on hers!
Happy Sunday!
November 16th, 2008 at 11:41 am
Hey Heather!! Currently hanging out in my hotel room at my skating competition on my Ma’s lap top and I wanted to let you know that I showed her all around your blog and past entries, and some of your hilarious videos with Mark….she was laughing!
Sweet potatoes with banana sounds awesome and I love that idea of putting it on a pita! I turned the monitor towards my Mom to show her even, since she loves eggplant and SP and spinach….and she was so interested!!
Have a great rest of your weekend!
~GC
November 16th, 2008 at 11:43 am
Haha, the pieces of banana do look like butter! Too funny! Never would have thought of mashing a banana and a sweet potato together. I’ll have to try that!
The pita pizza looks yummy!
November 16th, 2008 at 11:45 am
Mmmmmm, sweet potato and banana! That sounds wonderful! I just spent some time getting to know your blog and love it! I hope you don’t mind that I added you to my blogroll…
November 16th, 2008 at 12:11 pm
Both look great!
I tried mixing sweet potato with banana and walnuts after reading about it in a super foods article. They go surprisingly well together.
November 16th, 2008 at 12:24 pm
Bananas and sweet potatoes. Genius!!
November 16th, 2008 at 1:18 pm
this makes my plain microwaved sweet potato with ICBINB spray from last nite look so booooring!
November 16th, 2008 at 3:03 pm
sweet, i love the idea of mashing in banana!!! that pizza looks yummy
November 16th, 2008 at 4:07 pm
Tiffany is DEF the best! Sorry you didn’t have any luck at gap this weekend!
That sweet potato banana dish actually looks really great! (I say it like that because I loath whole bananas but like anything banana flavored)
I’m interested to see all the rest of the entries!
November 16th, 2008 at 5:31 pm
Sweet potatoes + bananas… interesting combo! I gotta try it
November 16th, 2008 at 6:11 pm
That pizza sounds delicious! I’m bummed that I missed out on the BSI again! It totally slipped my mind. Maybe next time.
November 16th, 2008 at 6:39 pm
I love this idea!
November 16th, 2008 at 7:15 pm
Yum!
November 16th, 2008 at 8:21 pm
Wow I never would have even thought of that combo! Love it. Will have to try it soon.
November 16th, 2008 at 8:23 pm
That sounds like an AWESOME combo. I could eat sweet potatoes every day. I could (and probably do) eat bananas every day. I NEED to try this.
November 16th, 2008 at 10:32 pm
How cool! I would never have thought to put banana in with sweet potato! Great recipe! Thanks for the fun idea!
November 16th, 2008 at 11:43 pm
Wow! What a fabulous combination … AND on a pizza! Can’t get any better!!
November 17th, 2008 at 9:04 am
Mmmm. Both look delicious. How do the bananas affect the flavors of the sweet potatoes? I love bananas but my only fear would be that it would make them really sweet.
The pita pizza looks especially yummy. I’ve seen a lot of pizzas on menus covered in mashed potatoes, but never sweet potatoes. I may have to try that. I’m thinking it would be really lovely with some thinly sliced duck’s breast. Mmmmm. Just the thought of this has me smacking my lips.
November 17th, 2008 at 10:33 am
Sweet potatoes & ‘naners?? Hmmm I’m seeing a very orange dinner side dish in my near future.
November 17th, 2008 at 11:21 am
bananas in sweet potatoes? – yum – never heard of that! will have to try it! and the pita pizza looks delish!
November 17th, 2008 at 1:57 pm
I love both of these! I never thought to combine bananas with sweet potatoes, but it makes perfect sense. Now I know how to sweeten the deal at Thanksgiving! And I love pizza anytime, any way, so you know I like that second submission
Nice!
November 29th, 2008 at 1:00 am
That is such a cool idea. I have to try that. I love sweet potatoes (the kind we all call red garnet yams). They are like candy.