Sweet Potato Cranberry Cheese Melt

I intended to contribute some sweet potato pie for a Thanksgiving Get Together in addition to the cranberry sauce. So much for intentions....

I had a lot of precooked sweet potatoes that desperately needed eating.  I had a lot of cranberry sauce leftover too.  (I made enough, we could of eaten it as the main course.)

I was worn out from eating and visiting the day before. Necessity is the mother of invention, so......


Sweet Potato Cranberry Cheese Melt

1. Mash cool to touch sweet potato in bottom of baking dish.  
2. Layer spoonfuls of cranberry sauce on top.
3. Dot with butter chunks.
4. Salt generously.
5. Layer white cheese of choice.  I used mozzarella, but a nice Jack or Havarti would work too.
6. Bake @ 300* for 20-30 minutes.

This taste ok cool and I ended up making some again for lunch to go the next day too.

Later incarnations involved coconut oil fried, white corn tortillas...even better!

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Baked Sweet Potato

1. Poke the potato generously
2. Bake at 300-325*
3. When it oozes and smells the house up with a decadent burnt sugar smell, it's done....approximately 1.5-2 hours.
4. Split open to receive butter, salt and optional brown sugar

OR use as a base for further recipes.

'Nough said.

Goat and Coconut Peach Stew

Layer in a crock pot: (recipe fits a 4 quart size)

Goat "stew" meat (approx 1 lb, mine was still frozen)
A can of sliced peaches (use commercial or home canned, avoid HFCS)
2 cans coconut milk (Golden Star has NO stabilizers or added gums.)
4-6 TBS unflavored gelatin
A few TBS Cane Sugar and Cream of tartar mix
A few TBS of vinegar ( I used rice)
Salt to taste
A dash of cinnamon
A dash of red pepper flakes
Sweet Potatoes (Cubed, optional) ****

Set crock pot to low and cook for hours on end....about 12 hours.

I set if before going to bed and enjoyed a nice, hot and hearty meal for breakfast.  I would have had a pot of rice already made too, but I couldn't find the rice cooker.




****I found a bag of frozen sweet potatoes in the bottom of the freezer drawer. I don't really recommend them, they are a bit of a disappointment compared to ones you cook yourself.  They almost totally dissolved in the broth, making for a nice color, but I don't think I would even know they were in there if I hadn't put them in myself.

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