You can microwave a sweet potato, but it will taste a lot better if you
bake it. That's what a friend told us after we served him our baked
sweet potatoes for dinner, and sent him home with some extra baked ones
to eat later.
I have multiple sweet potato cookbooks from the
library right now, and after I try a few recipes from them, I'm pretty
sure I'll hear what I always hear when I try a new sweet potato dish,
"You can make that if you want, but they taste better if you just bake
them." Of course, I'm not including slicing potatoes into chips and
deep frying them in lard. And sweet potato pies are popular, too. And
everyone likes sweet potato biscuits every couple weeks, but our family
can eat simple baked sweet potatoes multiple times per week and not grow
tired, especially by rotating through the different varieties with all
the different tastes, textures and colors.
It doesn't seem quite
right that such an easy preparation can be so good. Just put the washed
sweet potatoes directly on the oven rack and bake at 425 for about an
hour. That's it.
