Oven-Fried Sweet Potatoe Fries

When you're in the south you can find out people like me will bring a WOW moment to the table.like these sweet potato fries. Ohhhhh Boy! They are so good when they are hot are even when they cool off. Try them with my easy recipe. You can't go wrong, I promise you...


2 lbs sweet potatoes , peeled, and cut like ranch fries

2 tablespoon olive oil or cooking oil

1 teaspoon smoked paprika

1 teaspoon salt

1 teaspoon ground cinnamon

1 tablespoon brown sugar

1/2 teaspoon cayenne pepper (to taste) (optional)

nonstick cooking spray


Line a sheet tray with parchment. In a large bowl toss sweet potatoes with just enough oil to coat. Sprinkle sugar and spice. Spread sweet potatoes in single layer on prepared baking sheet, being sure not to overcrowd. Bake until sweet potatoes are tender and golden brown about 20 minutes. Let cool 5 to 10 minutes before serving.

Another Thing....For a humble root vegetable, the sweet potato sure does have a lot going for it. The orange tuber packs 438% of your daily value of infection-fighting vitamin A and, like carrots, sweet potatoes are a major source of skin-protecting beta-carotene.

Bake Some these Goodness...

Just rub them down with cooking oil and bake them until fork tender in a 350 oven.

7-UP Cake Or Pound Cake

This 7-up cake will never go out of style the 7-up cake can be a pound cake THE BOLD ONE people just love the favor of this wonderful cake. It's the true Lemon taste.

Leah Williams sells her pound cakes at the 32nd Street Farmers Market.

Leah Williams’ display of carefully wrapped slices of plain,lemon, and 7-Up pound cake. Since I’d never heard of using 7-Up in a cake, I had to investigate. Apparently, the 7-Up acts as the leavening agent. Happily, the cake did not taste like a can of soda; the 7-Up imparted a lemony flavor, and the slice was dense, moist and delicious.

Mrs William knew how to bake that cake. Great Job! Goes Out To her.

You can bake this pound cake in so many ways

1. slice it long

2. Make a single round layer

3. The round way with glazy

4.The Round way Plain

5. With Shapes

Try this pan when you bake your next pound cake

7-Up Cake Or Pound Cake Recipe

3 sticks of butter, room temperature

3 cups sugar

5 eggs, room temperature

2 tablespoons lemon extract

3 cups sifted all-purpose flour

3/4 cup 7-Up

Powdered sugar, for dusting

Preheat the oven to 325 degrees. Grease a 12-cup tube pan or Bundt pan.

In a heavy-duty mixer, beat together the butter and sugar for 20 minutes. Add the eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Add the lemon extract.

Add the flour to the butter mixture alternately with the 7-Up, beginning and ending with flour. Pour the batter into the pan. Bake for 1 to 1-1/2 hours, until a toothpick inserted near the center comes out clean.

Invert the cake onto a platter and let it sit until the cake drops out of the pan. When cool, dust with powdered sugar.

Southern Pecan And Coconut Pralines

Enjoy the sweet taste of the South with these heavenly homemade pralines with roasted pecan and added roasted coconut... makes these babies great!

2 ½ cups roasted grated coconut

3 tablespoon butter

1 teaspoon coconut extract

3 cups light brown sugar, packed

1   cup half and half

3   cups roasted pecan halves


Combine the sugar, milk in a heavy pot and bring to a boil over medium heat. Boil, stirring, until the mixture comes to the soft-ball stage (about 239 degrees on a candy thermometer). 

add pecan and coconut and coconut extract
Remove from the heat, add the butter and beat until the mixture begins to sugar.

Drop in small mounds on wax paper. Cool, then gently lift with a thin knife. Store in an airtight container.

Spicy Pinto Beans and Ham Hocks

Pinto Beans and Ham Hocks is nothing but a Soul Food Dish. You can just eat it with a good piece of cornbread and a tall glass of Ice sweet Tea.

Ingredients

3 smoked hamhocks are a high-fat food so don't used many

1 lbs. dried pinto beans sorted and rinsed

3 toes garlic chopped

1/2 teaspoon crushed red pepper

1/4 teaspoon ground black pepper

1/2 teaspoon salt

1 medium chopped chopped

2 c. tomatoes, chopped

2 t. ground cumin

2 t. chili powder

1 whole chipotle pepper in adobo sauce



Directions

The night before, cover the beans with water and let soak overnight. Drain. Add fresh water to cover the beans and hamhock.

Boil hamhocks and beans med heat for 2 hour adding all seasonings except onion.

After the beans and seasoning cook tender add onion. mashing some of the beans on the side with a wooden spoon of the pot to make them creamy.

this would be the time to remove the chipotle pepper for a milder dish. If left it in, resulting in a spicy dish of beans. cook beans 10 more mins on low heat.

Serve with cornbread . you can also use the hamhocks as your meat side dish.