It’s kind of sweet, but make a delicious sweet potato casserole (a little different than a pie) with pecans on top. You can find several recipes online. For the topping I used gluten free flour instead of normal flour because I’m a celiac. Then I added cold butter and a little bit of brown sugar into the flour and mixed it well. To the mashed sweet potatoes I added a bit of brown sugar, 1/4 cup milk, 2 eggs and a pinch of salt. Then I put the potato mixture and put it into a pan, topped it with the flour mixture, and topped with pecans. Then I baked it for 35 minutes. Delicious!

Or you can send them my way :) I love sweet potatoes, especially with a dash of cinnamon and some butter!

Make sweet potato patties. Mix mashed with flour, egg, s&p. Brown in skillet in a bit of shortening or light oil like safflower. Options: add golden or brown raisins, toasted chopped pine nuts or pecans, finely diced ham with a bit of dried mustard, or use buttermilk instead of egg. The patties do not absorb much of the fat in the pan - I have not tried it with a non-stick pan.

Can you freeze some?

As for uses, how about the top of something like a pot pie or shepherd's pie?

Filling for dumplings (ravioli, pierogi, etc.)?

Mix in some grated white potatoes, onions, seasoning and egg, and fry them up as potato pancakes.

Use it as a binder for croquettes. Like shaved beef, caramelized (seared) and chopped, chopped scallions and mild chili peppers, bound with sweet potato mash, rolled in coarse cornmeal and fried? (I want to try this now!)

"...the top of something like a pot pie or shepherd's pie?"

Sounds good...turkey shepherd's pie. :-)

I love them mashed with butter and carmelized onions.

I cook up some corn and then combine them with the sweet potatoes and quickly fry it with some chili powder mixed in.

I also do a casserole with the mashed sweet potatoes with added brown sugar, (ETA) 1 egg, cinnamon, 1/4 orange juice, 1 apple peeled and diced small, allspice, nutmeg. For the topping I just do chopped pecans and some brown sugar. bake until hot.

My DH isn't a fan of sweet potatoes, which I love, but he does like this.

I've never tried mixing any meat with them but that could be interesting.

Ever in search of vegetarian entrees, I think I am going to do a riff on a burrito recipe from a Moosewood cookbook I have and use them for an enchilada filling with some goat cheese, black beans and maybe onions and peppers. Then top with a quick mole sauce, thus using up cocoa powder I have languishing in the pantry. Also have a sweet potato soup recipe. One or the other. Stay tuned. Dad needs to eat more sweet potatoes so I'll probably be trying a lot of new recipes.

I like mashed sweet potatoes with butter and grated orange rind - salt and pepper to taste.

I need to work on my enchilada technique, but I have to say that sweet potatoes with mole sauce is a match made in heaven. I have not made it before but I got a quick recipe from Paula Deen on the internet and it was delish, much better than I expected. Not authentic by any means. Actually the first PD recipe I have ever made. I didn't use chicken broth, I had some V8 juice to use up instead. Also used aleppo pepper instead of chipotle as I don't much care for chipotle. Otherwise, easy and delish. https://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/paula-deen/quick-chicken-mole-recipe-1917228 

Oh and I think I added a dash of hot sauce to it too.

The filling was kidney and black beans, cilantro, cumin, corriander, garlic, pickled jalepenos and roasted sweet potatoes. Used cheddar cheese but it would be good with goat cheese or even monteray jack. Recipe called for squeeze of lime but we left that out.

I am guessing you want something more substantial than more sweets? Pork chops with some of the mashed sweet potato? Roasted broccoli and cauliflower, seasoned with Mexican herbs and spices?

Salmon cakes! This is basically the recipe I use, adapated from one from everydaymaven.com. I use the same ingredients but I found hers too bland, with not enough seasonings for the amount of salmon/sweet potato :

I use more cumin and hot sauce than listed here. I like to put the parsley in first because that way you know it’s mixed together well enough when you start seeing parsley on top. Put everything into a bowl. Make sure the sweet potato isn’t hot so it doesn’t cook the egg. Squish together with your hands and use a 1/3 cup measure, well-packed to make patties. Chill them at least an hour before cooking.

• 1 large sweet potato (about 10-ounces), cooked and mashed
• 1/3 cup almond meal
• 1/3 cup packed finely chopped parsley
• 1 small/medium finely chopped onion
• 1 Tablespoon fresh squeezed lemon juice
• 1/2 to 1 Tablespoon hot sauce
• 1/2 Tablespoon kosher salt
• 1 teaspoon cumin
• 1 1/4 teaspoon paprika
• 1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
• 1 large egg
• 1 14.75-ounce can Wild Alaskan Pink Salmon or fresh equivalent
• 2 Tablespoons organic coconut oil or ghee for cooking (divided)

Pan fry 4 minutes per side, in just add enough oil to keep them from sticking. More or less the amount you would use to grease the griddle for pancakes.

They also freeze very well before cooking.

I concur with all of the posters recommending chipotle or other spicy flavors - I love sweet potatoes with spice. You could add coconut milk, Sriracha, fish sauce and Thai curry paste for a savory Thai mash. I also made a very unusual but delicious savory sweet potato dish a few years ago for Thanksgiving - mashed with butter, thyme and dry sherry, then topped with a blue cheese and walnut crumble and baked into a casserole. The strong blue cheese with the sweetness of the potato was really wonderful.

CindyMac - adobo and chipotles are additions to sweet potatoes I have never heard of but it makes my mouth water for this really different Mexican flair. I just bought a dozen small sweet potatoes at the farmers market today for $1 and planned on peeling and boiling them - now I have to experiment with how much adobo and chipotle to add! Thanks.

This is a tried and true and well reviewed recipe:

https://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/bobby-flay/smoked-chile-scalloped-sweet-potatoes-recipe-1945789