Posts tagged ‘sweet potatoes’

May 1, 2011

Sweet Potato Wedges

I wanted to try something a little different to go with some meat dishes that I was planning to make (it ended up going with some ribs), so I bought some sweet potatoes with the idea of making some fries/wedges.

I had very little idea of what I was doing here.  I’ve had some marginally successful attempts at making potato wedges in the past and so I thought I could pull this off.

Frankly, cutting the sweet potatoes into wedges.  Unlike your russet potatoes, the shape of a sweet potato is not really conducive to…uhh…wedging.  I gave it my best shot, but as you’ll see in the ending photo, the wedges turned out pretty irregular.  Some of that is my own weaknesses with a knife, some of that is the sweet potato.  Actually, what am I talking about?  It’s all the sweet potato!  Stupid legume!

Anyway, I put these babies on a round pan and arbitrarily picked 350 degrees for the oven; later, i got frustrated with how long they were taking, so I cranked it up to 425.  I covered them in some olive oil and then layed that in brown sugar.  In retrospect, I should have covered them in olive oil and brown sugar BEFORE I put them on the pan as I think it might have avoided some of the mess.

However, these things turned out awesome.  I used a fork to stab them to check if they were done, I think they ended up taking about 40 minutes.

January 9, 2011

Steak with brussel sprouts and baked sweet potatoes

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Awesome stuff y’all.

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