One of the easiest ways to do this is to cook your sweet potatoes (or yams) in the dang microwave.

Note: Never place aluminum foil in the microwave. Cooking Yams and Sweet Potatoes Yams can be cooked by boiling, baking, microwaving, or grilling.

In fact, cooking a turkey in your microwave is, in some ways, even easier than conventional oven roasting (I’m looking at you, basters).

Using the microwave for sweet potato cubes or white potato cubes is a fast and efficient method to cook this nutritious vegetable for use in many recipes.

Don't have 60 minutes to roast a root vegetable for this tilapia recipe? Try cooking yams in a microwave for about five minutes on each side and you'll have yams that are soft and ready to mash ...