Some recipes just stick with you. For me, it’s my mom’s candied yams, soft sweet potatoes in a buttery brown sugar sauce that caramelizes right on the stovetop. She made them for every holiday, and ...

1) Peel and dice your sweet potatoes, then place them in a casserole dish. Pre-heat your oven to 350. 2) Slowly melt 2 sticks of butter in a pot on low heat. Cut them in half so they’ll melt faster.

As every home cook knows, Thanksgiving dinner is a huge undertaking. I remember thinking as a kid how wild it was that my mom got up at 4 a.m. to start cooking ...until I began hosting the festivities ...

candied yams, sweet potatoes cooked with orange juice, cinnamon, brown sugar and butter in a black ceramic dish, top view, macro, flatlay *A beloved soul food staple, stovetop candied yams continue to ...

Sweet potatoes and yams are often confused, but they are botanically different plants. True sweet potatoes are native to the Americas, while true yams originate from Africa and Asia. The canned "yams" ...

I made sweet-potato pies using recipes from chefs Trisha Yearwood, Carla Hall, and Alton Brown. Yearwood's pie was simple yet a bit watery and Brown's fell apart as I ate it. Hall had the best recipe, ...