I was talking about this site with my friend Jess a few days ago, and she happened to mention that she’s made two of my recipes several times for easy weeknight dinners. One of them was a popular, fairly recent recipe that I wasn’t surprised she liked — the baked chicken fingers from this fall.
The other one, though, I couldn’t believe. ”And I love your sweet potato fries,” she said. ”I’ve made those a bunch of times.”
Um, sweet potato fries? Are we talking about these? The recipe I posted in the year two thousand seven? Before I even bought my SLR? The photo where you cannot tell if the subject of the recipe is sweet potatoes or carrots, and I used black sea salt?
(Black sea salt was a cool idea and tastes just fine, but it turns every single food the color of charcoal, which is not particularly appetizing. It was a short lived fad for the Sugarlaws test kitchen.)
“Um, yeah,” I said to Jess. ”I should think about revisiting those.”
So, this weekend, I did. Along with my good camera and a little parchment paper as a prop, and let me tell you — they were just as delicious as she reminded me they were. I would have eaten the whole batch, if Chad hadn’t gotten there first. So maybe you don’t need a fancy photo to capture a great recipe — and thanks to Jess for reminding me of that.
Oven Sweet Potato Fries Recipe
INGREDIENTS
2 large sweet potatoes
1 generous tsp sea salt
1 generous tsp garlic powder
1/4 tsp paprika
Pinch of black pepper
3 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
DIRECTIONS:
Preheat your oven to 400 degrees F.
Slice sweet potatoes lengthwise into thin strips, and place in a bowl. Add the olive oil, sea salt, pepper, paprika and garlic powder, and toss to coat thoroughly. Place the fries in a single layer on a wire rack, with a baking sheet underneath.
Bake for approximately 20-30 minutes (taste to tell if they’re done), or until the fries are soft and delicious.
Serves 4 (um… 2).
19 responses so far ↓
1 Maddy // May 11, 2010 at 5:52 am
You had me at fries !! These looks tasty & I love your parchment paper prop! I would’ve never thought to do that!
2 love // May 11, 2010 at 6:10 am
i love those fries ! i’m fond of sweet and salt mix together
3 zestycook // May 11, 2010 at 7:13 am
Delicious!!! Love them!
4 emily // May 11, 2010 at 7:14 am
amazing! you don’t need great photos, but they don’t hurt either!!!
5 emily // May 11, 2010 at 7:18 am
I wouldn’t mind if you left some of those kicking around when I dog sit!! It might prevent me from devouring the peanut butter or poor chad’s tortilla chips!
6 yanil // May 11, 2010 at 7:42 am
I loveee those! i like your pic just the way they are. I mean I get hungry everytime I come to this blog!
7 Rosemaryandthegoat // May 11, 2010 at 8:07 am
Katy, I love sweet potato fries. Have you tried truffled fries. I have made these for several parties I have catered and making them for a pre concert Jimmy Buffet party next week. http://tinyurl.com/28txfdd
these are to die for.
8 Joanne // May 11, 2010 at 9:29 am
I’m always embarrassed when I look at the pages people find through searches on the blog and see that they’ve gone to an old recipe where the pictures were BAD. I really need to update some of them! You can never go wrong with sweet potato fries though. Delicious.
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10 Audrey // May 11, 2010 at 3:58 pm
I love sweet potato fries!!! I just bought a frozen bag of them from Trader Joe’s… I think I definitely prefer yours though!
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13 Alisa // May 12, 2010 at 2:33 am
This is delicious. My family loves this paired with roasted chicken. Your photos make me so hungry
14 Kristen // May 12, 2010 at 8:39 am
yum.
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16 June // May 13, 2010 at 7:44 am
mmm. pair them with curry ketchup!
17 Katie // May 13, 2010 at 1:51 pm
I love this – These two recipes, along with your soft pretzels when I have the time, are in constant rotation as dinner staples.
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19 paul // May 17, 2010 at 6:50 pm
It’s posts like this that keep me coming back and checking this site regularly, thanks!
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