Cooking with Crevolyn: Slow cooking some sweet potatoes

Layer vegetable with brown sugar, raisins and apple pie filling

Crevolyn Wiley uses a slow cooker to make a sweet potato dish for her family. It includes the vegetable along with apple pie filling, golden raisins, brown sugar and butter. Once the dish is finished, it is topped with toasted, chopped pecans. Sweet potatoes are high in antioxidants; vitamins such as A, B-6 and C; and potassium, iron and dietary fiber. - photo by CHELSEY ABERCROMBIE

1112SweetPotato6 — Crevolyn Wiley uses a slow cooker to make a sweet potato dish for her family. It includes the vegetable along with apple pie filling, golden raisins, brown sugar and butter. Once the dish is finished, it is topped with toasted, chopped pecans. Sweet potatoes are high in antioxidants; vitamins such as A, B-6 and C; and potassium, iron and dietary fiber. - photo by CHELSEY ABERCROMBIE

Thanksgiving is right around the corner and we all know the celebration is not complete until the sweet potatoes are on the table. Our family loves sweet potatoes in all forms throughout the year. We eat them in casseroles, pies, tarts, breads, fried pies, as well as roasted, baked (and twice-baked — seriously good) and sweet potato fries.

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