Combine the mirin, soy, sugar and garlic in a bowl; add the duck breasts. Cover; marinate in refrigerator at least 2 hours. Cover the sweet potato and parsnip with water in a saucepan; heat to a boil ...

Check sweet potatoes, and if not thoroughly cooked, return to microwave for additional cooking. Allow sweet potatoes to cool enough to safely handle. Cut potatoes open and scrape out the inside of the ...

"I know it's fall when I crave pork chops and sweet potatoes," says Andy Powning, a salesman for Greenleaf, the San Francisco wholesale produce distributor. It's fall, all right. Growers in Merced ...

As a kid I never much cared for parsnips. My dad was wild about them, but I was unmoved, figuring that if they were white and ended in “-nip,” they must somehow be related to turnips. And I was ...

3 each Sweet potatoes, large .25 pound Butter, melted.5 each Orange, juice of To taste Salt To taste Pepper, freshly ground Procedure Place sweet potatoes [pricked with fork tines] on a baking tray ...

Some of the sweetest and most distinctive tastes of fall come in the color orange: pumpkins and other winter squash, sweet potatoes, persimmons, the first mandarins. One of my favorite sweet potato ...

Chronicle-kitchen-tested recipe from Sally Schneider's The Improvisational Cook (William Morrow, $34.95). Texas grows naturally delicious sweet potatoes, all the more reason to join the-less-you-gussy ...

In a pre-heated 400 degree oven, roast the sweet potatoes for about 1 hour until tender. Remove from oven and, using rubber gloves, peel while they are hot. Put the peeled sweet potatoes through a ...