If we’re being perfectly honest – and we are. judgement-free zone here – I have an addiction to fries. I need them on a regular basis. If I’ve gone several days without fries, I start to go into a withdrawal. Weeping and irritability, sad potato chip substitutes, Gray’s Anatomy re-runs… not a pretty site. I bought my husband a card for his birthday a few years ago – actually he wasn’t my husband back then, but close enough – that had a picture of french fries on the front and said something like this: (front) “I love you so much I’ll give you my heart, my life….. (inside) “…and one, maybe two of my french fries.” It was so perfect. And I’m not too picky about my fries either. I’ll take em’ homestyle, curly (Arby’s, I heart you), steak-cut (minus the steak), waffled (CHICK FIL A!!!) and yes, I really really love sweet potato fries. You know I’m a sucker for that sweet-n-salty flavor combo and sweet potato fries are no exception. Now, if you can get spicy to fit in there somewhere too, well that’s basically my own personal heaven. Which is why I love adding chili powder and cayenne pepper to my sweet potato fries, plus plenty of salt and a kick-butt sauce that takes all of 3 seconds to whip up. Can you use ketchup? Technically: yes. Un-technically: absolutely not. Make the sauce. And if you can tolerate any degree of heat, please pleeeeeeease put the sriracha in. That being said… do not pass up on making these perfect baked sweet potato fries just because you don’t have (what???) or don’t like (stop it.) sriracha sauce. Use your favorite sauce, use no sauce, just get these lovelies into your life.
