Daily Archives: October 6, 2011

Aspiring Chef in the Making

Familiarizing (is that a word?) herself the ingredients in the frig :)

Just thought it would be fitting to share this adorable picture of our littlest aspiring chef, getting familiar with her ingredients! If I don’t want a similar situation to transpire, I have to get what I need quickly these days or I might have to fish the “goods” out of the frig before I shut the door. Isn’t she just adorable? :)

Baked Sweet Potato Fries

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So, most of my kids prefer plain old “potato fries”. Actually, if you gave them the choice, I’m almost positive they would pass right by mama’s homemade fries for the enemy fries, greasy McDonald. Isn’t that just wrong? Anyway, today while the kids were watching me slave away chopping all of the sweet potatoes meticulously by hand, Eamon pointed out, “that must be hard!” Then someone asked, I think it was Guenna, “are you ever going to make REAL fries mommy?” Hmmm, I’ll have to think about that. Probably not ;) But you never know, I just might if you ask me really nice.

In the meantime, lets work up an appetite for these tasty little homemade, “not quite real fries”, shall we? Okay, we are all a work process, including me. Even though some of the kids are still getting used to the idea of sweet potatoes over regular potatoes, there weren’t really any of these tasty buggers left when dinner was cleared off the table, so not so bad after all! I’m still working on tweaking the recipe to tantalize their taste buds, I got the inspiration from my Everyday Paleo book, you should buy it if you’re a mom and you’re interested in the Paleo Diet! Continue reading