Friday Foodie

The latest Weight Watchers Magazine is November/December 2011. There are so many ideas and recipes for Thanksgiving and Christmas. I tried one this week that was labeled "Berry Good" and I agree with that description! The original recipe called for two pounds of sweet potatoes and said it served six ~ that's a third of a pound of potatoes per serving. I knew that was too much for us, so I cut the recipe in half and we got eight servings out of it! I don't know if Les and I are just small eaters or if American recipes are just too big!


Cranberry-Sweet Potato Bake

1 cup fresh cranberries
1/2 cup water
1/4 cup sugar
1 lb. sweet potatoes or yams, peeled and diced
1/2 tsp. salt
1/4 tsp. pepper

1. For sauce mix cranberries, water and sugar in saucepan. Bring to a boil over medium-high heat, stirring frequently. Reduce heat and simmer, stirring, until mixture is thickened, 5 minutes. Cool.
2. Preheat oven to 375.
3. Bring potatoes to boil in large saucepan. Reduce heat and simmer, covered, until tender, 10 minutes. Drain. Transfer to large bowl; add salt and pepper. With electric mixer on medium speed, beat potatoes until smooth. Cool.
4. Spread 1/2 potatoes in 8" x 8" baking dish. Layer with 1/2 sauce, remaining potatoes and remaining sauce.
5. Cover with foil. Bake until heated through, 35-40 minutes.

This was really good! The cranberry sauce in the middle was a special treat. Since I've never made cranberry sauce before, I wasn't sure what was going to happen to the cranberries - but as they began to boil they started popping open and turned into sauce. Also, I used yams instead of sweet potatoes since they tend to be a little sweeter.

Nutritional info: 94 calories / 0 g protein / 21.5 g carbs / 0 g fat / 2 g fiber / 2 WW Points Plus per serving. Make 8 servings.

FYI - the points on the recipe in the magazine are not correct for the number of servings. I used the Recipe Building on WeightWatchers.com and the points should have been 6 points per serving. Or the recipe should have said serves 8, then 4 points would have been correct.