Sweet Potato Fries

 This is one of my favorite ways to eat sweet potatoes! I've seen sweet potato fries cooked like regular fries and I've seen them served as a dessert type food with cinnamon and sugar. This is the way I prefer to cook them but experiment and see what you prefer.

1-2 sweet potatoes
seasonings (I prefer to use cumin, garlic powder, and chili powder)

Wash and peel sweet potatoes. Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Cut potatoes into small fry-size pieces (about 3-inches long and 1/4 inch wide). Spread evenly over baking sheet (spraying baking sheet with nonstick spray tends to makes the fries soggy). Sprinkle with preferred seasonings. Cook about 15-20 minutes, turning fries half way through. Fries are done when they are soft.

Homemade Pepper Relish

This recipe comes from my wonderful mother-in-law who always helps me can foods. This is a great recipe for using up some of the peppers in the garden and it's my favorite topping for brats!

Homemade Pepper Relish

4 cups ground onions                   6 cups sugar

1 med head cabbage                    2 Tbls mustard seed

10 green tomatoes                        1 Tbls celery seed 

12 green sweet peppers                1 1/2 tsp turmeric

6 red sweet peppers                     4 cups clear vinegar 

1/2 cup salt                                 2 cups water    

                                                  1 Tbls Alum

Grind, with a coarse blade, onions, cabbage, tomatoes and peppers.  Sprinkle with salt, let stand overnight.  Rinse and drain.  Add sugar, spices, vinegar and water.  Heat to boiling.  Simmer 3 minutes.  Put into jars and seal.  Water bath for 20 minutes.  Makes approx. 11 pints. 

To make "Hot Pepper" relish, substitute hot peppers for the green and red sweet peppers.  Depending on how hot you want it, you can use a mixture of hot peppers and bell peppers.