when i cook meals for my clients, i make a protein, a starch, a vegetable, and a salad. i like to keep the starches healthy. so if i make mashed potatoes (rarely), i use fat free milk and chicken broth - never butter or cream. often times i will make mashed cauliflower, instead of mashed potatoes. when i cook rice i choose brown rice. i love quinoa and whole wheat orzo. i also love sweet potatoes. in 1992, the center for science compared the nutritional value of sweet potatoes to other vegetables. considering fiber content, complex carbohydrates, protein, vitamins a and c, iron, and calcium, the sweet potato ranked highest in nutritional value. i'm sold! bake the sweet potatoes in the oven for about 1 hour. after they are soft i peel them and put the sweet potatoes in a food processor with a little fat free milk, a pinch of cinnamon, and salt. puree until everything is well incorporated. i like to serve sweet potato puree with fish, turkey meatloaf, crab cakes. i almost always cook a green vegetable with it. very pretty colors on the dinner plate! sweet potatoes go really well with asian flavors. just so you know...
