{"id":150,"date":"2026-02-22T23:24:29","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T23:24:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/spicy-mashed-sweet-potatoes"},"modified":"2026-02-22T23:24:29","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T23:24:29","slug":"spicy-mashed-sweet-potatoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/potato\/blog\/2026\/02\/22\/spicy-mashed-sweet-potatoes\/","title":{"rendered":"Spicy Mashed Sweet Potatoes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\"><b><font face=\"comic sans ms\" size=\"5\">Ingredients<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n<p>2 medium-sized sweet potatoes<br \/>\n1\/4 tsp. black pepper<br \/>\n1\/2 tsp. seasoned salt (or table salt)<br \/>\n3 Tbsp. butter<br \/>\n1\/4 C. spiced rum (or brandy, or orange juice)<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><b><font face=\"comic sans ms\" size=\"5\">Cooking Instructions<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Boil the sweet potatoes in a saucepan with just enough water to cover the tops until soft (about 20 minutes). Mash with a spoon, add rest of ingredients and serve.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>&nbsp;While they were eating, Jesus took some bread, and after a blessing, He broke it and gave it to the disciples, and said, Take, eat; this is My body.&quot; (Matthew 26:26)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Potato<\/p>\n <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/potato\/blog\/2026\/02\/22\/spicy-mashed-sweet-potatoes\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-potato"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/potato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/potato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/potato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/potato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/potato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/potato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/potato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/potato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/potato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}