Garlic roasted sweet potato

I like to attempt to eat healthy about 70% of the time.  I love cooking and I love food, so not all of my meals are healthy. However, on my healthy eating days we love to make sweet potatoes. I have many different ways I like to cook them, but this is our favorite! You can add cauliflower or carrots to it also and it tastes great! I also like adding sweet peppers if I'm the only one in my family eating it.  The recipe is below, enjoy!

Garlic Roasted Sweet Potato(with broccoli): Feeds 5

Ingredients:
Pre-heat oven to 375
4 to 5 sweet potatoes, peeled and chopped (maybe less or more depending on how large they are)
1 bag of frozen broccoli, or 3 cups of fresh broccoli
1-2 garlic cloves, chopped fine
1/2 tsp of dried oregano
Garlic infused grapeseed oil(regular grapeseed works, as well as olive oil if you don't have it)
Sea salt
Black pepper

Instructions:
Chop up garlic and set to the side.
Peel and chop potatoes into chunks and place in a large bowl. Add frozen or fresh broccoli. Drizzle oil over the broccoli and potato mixture. Add oregano and mix together with hands until everything is coated. 

Spread out mixture onto a large baking sheet. Sprinkle with fresh garlic, sea salt and black pepper. Place in the oven and bake for 20minutes, or until potatoes are soft enough to eat(watch it closely so that they don't burn to the pan). At about 10 minutes I flip my potatoes around to help avoid burning on the bottom.

note: I like to use the organic Garlic infused grapeseed oil sold by wildtree. I'm not sure if anyone else makes it, but their brand tastes wonderful with this dish!  

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Baked sweet potato wedges

I made these super easy potato wedges to go with my apple sauce pork tenderloin tonight for dinner. My kids loved these! There were no leftovers, just the way I like it! I'm always trying to get them to try new things and eat healthy..r..ish, but most of the time my 5yr old doesn't go for"new food", especially if it doesn't look normal. She claims she doesn't like sweet potatoes, so I made these wedges, called them fries and she gobbled them up and asked for a third helping. She did comment on how they tasted different and sweet, so we call them "dessert fries", which she now loves. 

Here is the recipe, enjoy! 


Ingredients:

• 3 small sweet potatoes (about 2 pounds)
• 1 1/2 tablespoons olive oil
• 1 Tsp dried thyme 
• 1/2 Tsp oregano
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• Sprinkle of pepper

Directions:

Peel sweet potatoes; cut each potato lengthwise into 8 wedges. In a large bowl, combine sweet potatoes and remaining ingredients; toss well to coat.

Arrange potatoes in a single layer on a baking sheet. Bake potatoes at 450° for 30 minutes or until soft and lightly browned, turning wedges after the first 15 minutes. Serve!