Sweet potato recipes & the countdown to Thanksgiving

Ok friends, it’s time to finalize your Thanksgiving menu, or if you’re not hosting, it’s time to finalize the dish you are bringing to the festivities. If pumpkin pie is on your dessert menu, let me please remind you to start the oven at 400 degrees for the first 10 minutes but then decrease the temp to 350 for the remainder of the bake. We don’t want our pie to curdle and split. Also, PLEASE, rest your pie for a few hours. The pie is the second thing I make on Thanksgiving morning after I have split the turkey into white meat and dark meat - for even roasting. More on that next week along with my prep timeline. 

P.S. The pie crust is made either the day before and rests in the fridge overnight or I’ve made it many days or a week ahead and keep it in the freezer. Here’s the pie crust recipe I use and it is genius - from Stella Parks on Food52’s site, No Stress Pie Crust. What I love is not only the super flaky and delicious results but the technique used builds in the layers as you roll it out before chilling. She uses a “booking” technique that is used to make croissants and other Viennoiserie. It’s super easy though so please don’t be put off by any cheffy words I’ve used. This is the only pie crust I will make now that I’ve discovered it and it feels like cheating because it’s so easy. 

Now if you’re not a pumpkin pie fan - either because you don’t make your own pumpkin puree so you don’t like the flavor of canned pumpkin, or, you don’t like the spices, have you tried Sweet Potato Pie? Maybe you don’t like that either. You may need to see medical attention in that case, but maybe give these Sweet Potato Pie Bars a chance. There’s a marshmallow swirl topping and it’s cut into squares, not a wedge in case that was also a contributing factor - you have something against wedges. I get it, we all have our “things”. 

Here is a Full collection of Sweet Potato recipes, in case you need more. Enjoy! Hope to see you at the Doylestown Farmers Market. We're open outside on South Hamilton Street in Doylestown Boro until November 21st 8am to 1pm. Then we move inside for the Winter Market on the first and third Saturdays of December, January and February at the Central Bucks Senior Center from 10am to 1pm at 700 N Shady Retreat Rd in Doylestown Township.