Stuffed Sweet Potatoes

All through the Pacific Islands, handsomely large vegetables beg to be stuffed and baked: yams, breadfruit, taro, sweet potatoes, eggplant, papaya, plantains—the list is really longer and the choices many. The preparation lends itself to traditional baking, either in the hot ashes of an open fire or within the tumulus of an earthpit oven.

The fillings become a canvas for creativity. If fruits or curcubits are to be the receptacles, then there are always starchy roots or tubers to pr