Gratins are my fall back on side-dish when I don’t know what else to serve with roasted meat. I always have potatoes, as well as sweet potatoes in the pantry, in case, I need something to eat for lunch or a thickener for a soup or a weekend hash. By keeping a few other staples …
Sweet Potato
This weeks’ meat-heavy recipe over at The Back Burner, had to have chocolate involved. Now before you click off, hear me out. I made a mole sauce, that will have you begging for “mole”. It is rich, dense, and full of smokey and sultry bittersweet chocolate, and spicy chilies. Then throw in the caramelized bits …
Creamy sweet potatoes are baked to perfect in a bed of kosher salt and then seasoned with pancetta, green onions, butter and sour cream before being stuffed and baked to perfect. The finishing touch is a chipotle cream dollop.