Best laid plans...

This morning I started out with the idea of making baked sweet potato fries wrapped in prosciutto.

Sounds great, right?

And it started off well - 

But I set the oven temperature too high and cooked them too long and they ended up looking like this:

Not exactly pretty.

They did taste wonderful, if a bit burnt. I tasted one and the dogs each got one since they were swooning over them.


For breakfast I ended up eating this:

Siggi's yogurt with Kyo-Green with a sprinkle of brown sugar and chopped apples and oranges.

I realized this morning that I have gotten caught up in the 'posting what I eat' trend but that was never my intention with this blog.

My intention was to create a blog about what I cook and the quirky things I occasionally feed the dogs.

I have decided to head back in that direction so while I will most likely continue to post at the same rate, the focus will be on what I create in the kitchen (and, of course, any restaurant posts).
 
And while my fries were a bust this morning I am having an urge to experiment with souffles later today.

Happy Tuesday!

Spicy oven baked sweet potato fries

Today I woke up craving fries.

I still have bunches of sweet potatoes to work through so I peeled one large sweet potato - 

Chopped it up -

And tossed the fries with dry seasoning mix of paprika, chili powder, garlic powder, salt and pepper.

I then sprayed them with olive oil. I chose the spray oil so I could use as little oil as possible.

Then I arranged them in a single layer on a sheet pan.

They went into a 450 degree oven for 30 minutes (until golden brown). I forgot to flip them so one side was extra crispy and the other side was not:-(. Definitely flip them halfway through cooking. 


While I was waiting for the fries to finish cooking I made myself a drink.

I mixed 1/2 a scoop of Amazing Grass with 8 oz. of kefir and 2 oz. of Pellegrino. It tasted like a fizzy - berry mocktail. Yum!

And the last of the Cara Cara oranges.

And since I was out and about early this morning - I picked up some caffeine.

Back to the fries -

Oven baked spicy sweet potato fries with dipping sauce of 1Tbsp. of ketchup mixed with 1 tsp. of Tofutti sour cream.

The spice mix on these fries was a winner. I went heavy on the paprika and black pepper, medium on the garlic powder and light on the chili powder.


They were actually tasty enough on their own that I ate very little of the dip. 


I am eager to try out this recipe with regular russet potatoes.


I hope everyone is enjoying their Saturday!