Happy Friday! Yay! I am currently making Momofuku Ramen for 8 people to eat tonight. Pretty excited about it. This will be the first time I have had people over for a proper dinner. My friend Adrianna is making some delicious dessert from the Milk Bar cookbook. It’s going to be so fun. It’s so nice to finally have a dining room table so I can actually do these kinds of things. In preparation for eating massive amounts of ramen tonight, I did what most people don’t do, I ate like 5 million burgers last night (when I say 5 million I mean 4 burgers split between three people). I am still so full right now. I only hope that I will be starving tonight so I can re pack my stomach with delicious pork and ramen.
When I’m not stuffing my face with meat, I love to eat potatoes. Being an Idaho girl, I feel like I know my way around potatoes pretty well. Sweet potatoes are one of my favorite kinds. This Twice Baked Sweet Potato recipe is so perfect in its presentation. It makes a super tasty and super pretty side dish to nearly anything. If you want to go a little crazy, I think it would go awesome with a veggie burger. I hope you all will eat some good stuff this weekend!
♥ Teri
Twice Baked Sweet Potatoes
Makes 8
Ingredients:
4 sweet potatoes, lightly pricked all over with a fork
1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, softened
3 tablespoons milk
3 garlic cloves, minced
1 egg, lightly beaten
1/2 cup feta, crumbled (plus extra for garnish)
1 tablespoon minced thyme
salt and pepper to taste
garnish:
chopped pecans
crumbled feta
Directions:
1. Preheat oven to 375°F.
2. Place sweet potatoes on a baking sheet and bake for 40 to 50 minutes or until sweet potatoes have softened.
3. Once sweet potatoes have cooled enough to handle, slice each potato in half and carefully scoop the flesh out into a mixing bowl (be sure not to tear the skins).
4. Begin mashing warm sweet potatoes with butter, milk and garlic until smooth. Season with salt and pepper. Stir in egg until fully incorporated.
5. Fold in feta and thyme until fully combined. Scoop mixture into a piping bag, fitted with a large star tip, and pipe potatoes back into the sweet potato “shells.”
6. Bake sweet potatoes for an additional 10-15 minutes, top with crumbled feta and chopped pecan and serve.
I’ve been daydreaming about something like this! And I love how you piped the middles back in. Hope your dinner party is the most fun!
ummmmm, I am drooling.
I’ve never seen sweet potatoes like this! Garlic, feta, thyme, drool……
Ramen at a dinner party?! So cool! I haven’t seen that book yet, but it sounds super cool – and these sound awesome too!
what a fun dinner party! what time should i be there? ;)
These look so yum, i mite make these for dinner. Thanks xx
That looks so good. I’ll have to store it away for the cool weather when I turn the oven on! I’d love to see the ramen recipe though….
There is a Milk Bar cookbook??? I need to get my hands on that! Oh, and I like sweet potatoes too, these look awesome.
I am joining the drool brigade! Those look sooooo delicious! Everything you put in them is an element I enjoy! THANKS!!!
Sweet Potatoes are truly one of my favorite foods. Bake them, add butter, salt and pepper and I am good to go. But this recipe elevates this simple starch to whole new level. I recently discovered an amazing Greek Feta cheese at my local farmer’s market. I have a container in my frige right now. Guess how I’m going to use it!
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your dinner plans sounds so delicious! & these sweet potatoes look AMAZING!
These look delicious! I love a good sweet potato recipe – thanks for sharing!
Oh wow – I expected these to be sweet, not savory. Looks amazing! What a great twist on the classic twice-baked potato!?
xoxo,
mon amy
These look amazing! Love that they are savory.
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No blog post on your Momofuku ramen? Awwwwww…
These are awesome! Aside from loving sweet potatoes, these are so darned pretty!
Curious about the ramen…hope to see it here! :)
Cloves, feta and thyme – what an interesting combination of flavors. These look delicious and gorgeously photographed as always… I’m featuring this post in today’s Food Fetish Friday series (with a link-back and attribution). I hope you have no objections and it’s so much fun following your creations…
Unless I misread, this recipe calls for cloves of garlic, not cloves. I made these today to try them first and see if I wanted to make them again for Tsgiving and/ or Christmas. They turned out great
Absolutely delicious they are! My new regular recipe!
Yes! No cloves, but cloves of garlic for sure! Will update the recipe soon! Thanks!
These look amazing! And i absolutely love the idea of piping the potatoes back into the skin. Great presentation idea!
I would LOVE to see a post on your Ramen recipes!!!
Beautiful! I love the combination of pecan and feta cheese. What a great Thanksgiving side, I’m totally bookmarking…
that looks so pretty
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This recipe is fantastic! I was searching sweet potato recipes for Thanksgiving this year and found your recipe… Definitely on my list this year!
I’m making a traditional Thanksgiving dinner for my boyfriends family here in Germany! They are going to love this.
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I made these twice over the holidays. Once as twice baked and once as mashed potatoes. Both were absolutely amazing! I got compliments from even the pickiest of eaters.
So asking my husband to make this one night.
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Just made this tonight. Delicious! Thanks for the recipe and your website!
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Just what I was looking for! Something different to do with sweet potatoes. What a diverse depth of flavors that is SO refreshing from the usual “sweet” sweet potato. Thanks for the the great recipe!!
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