You gotta try this...

[Guest]

If you are still working on side dishes for holiday meals, don't overlook this gem of a recipe, I will be serving this up tommorrow for Thanksgiving, but this works all winter long for a hearty side dish, for a side to any meal.

Sweet Potatoes with Cranberries and Walnuts

4 large sweet potatoes
2 cups fresh/frozen cranberries
½ cup brown sugar
2 tablespoons butter
½ cup orange juice

Topping
¼ cup brown sugar
½ chopped walnuts
3 Tablespoons melted margarine or veg. oil
½ teaspoon cinnamon

Peel and cut sweet potatoes into 1 inch cubes and parboil for 5 minutes. Place ½ of the sweet potatoes in greased cassorole , layer with cranberries and brown sugar, add remaining sweet potatoes, cranberries and brown sugar, pour orange juice over and dollop with butter. bake at 350 for 30-40 minutes. Combine topping ingredients and sprinkle over sweet potatoes bake an additional 10 minutes uncovered.

[Guest]

Wow, that one sounds good! I missed this recipe for Thanksgiving, but will definately make this for Christmas dinner, thanks.

[fishinphyl]

I too wanted to try this for Xmas but gave it a test run tonight. It was really good! I was getting brave and tried 3 new recipes tonight - thought it was just going to be us - then our newly divorced neighbor stopped over. I asked him if he had eaten supper and would like to stay. He said he would stay but couldn't eat much. Well, he had 3 helpings of everything - told you it was good! Only problem is I now have no leftovers for tomorrow night.

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Phyl

[fishinphyl]

Hey coldone - have you ever tried this with pecans? I bought a bag of pecans and a bag of walnuts at sams club today.
When I got home I had 2 pecans! So I need to use pecans!

Also, if you use fresh cranberries do you cook them first?

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Phyl

[Guest]

Pecans would work just fine, and either fresh or frozen cranberries, they will be fully cooked by the time the dish is done, do not thaw frozen cranberries first, just add to the dish frozen, or they will be mushy.

[fishinphyl]

Hey thanks again! Yep we will be eating pecans for a long time!

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Phyl