Desperation Dinners: ; Choose Vegetable with Orange Skin, Flesh; Much Confusion Exists in Sweet Potato Labeling

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Pity the poor sweet potato - it's probably the most confusing vegetable around. For starters, can you call it a yam? What color should it be? And what does it taste like?

Before we delve deep into the roots of this vegetable, let's make one thing perfectly clear: If you want to cook anything using a recipe for traditional orange sweet potatoes or yams, buy a vegetable with an orange skin (light or dark) and orange flesh. That's really all you need to know for recipe success.

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Desperation Dinners: ; Choose Vegetable with Orange Skin, Flesh; Much Confusion Exists in Sweet Potato Labeling

This amazingly sweet and nutritious vegetable can be baked or boiled - and, as we discovered after a bit of experimenting, you can cook up a batch conveniently in a slow ...

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