Dinner: It's whats for dinner.

That's really not that clever, is it? Eh. Oh well :)

Dinner tonight turned out pretty awesome! I had a delightful hamburger patty under sauteed garlic and rosemary mushrooms. With this I had baked sweet potato fries and a small salad. It actually ended up being so much food that the dog got half of the hamburger! I wasn't about to share the mushrooms, though!


Sweet Potatoes
Preheat oven to 450.
1 small-ish sweet potato
Olive Oil for tossing
Cinnamon
Salt
Sugar

1. Using a good knife (not just a steak knife, but a BIG knife), slice the sweet potato in half. Cut the halves into pieces about 1/4 to 1/2" wide.
2. Put the pieces in a glass baking dish and toss with olive oil. You want them to be slightly covered, not saturated.
3. Sprinkle lightly with cinnamon and salt. Bake for 10 minutes at 450, then take them out and toss them around a little bit so they don't stick and they cook evenly.
4. Put them back in the oven for about 10 more minutes. They'll be done when you can put a fork in them pretty easily.
5. When they come out of the oven, sprinkle with sugar and toss. Then, sprinkle with salt and toss.
**I like to use a sea salt grinder for these so that you get a good, salty crunch.


The hamburger isn't rocket science...it's a burger. I took a little bit of garlic salt and mixed it into the 1/2 pound of meat and popped it into my pan. I like to use the lean meat, 93/7, so it's a bit healthier and less messy. Cook it over medium heat until it's cooked to your liking. (For me, I don't like the burger to 'moo' at me....a good rare steak is a completely different blog post!)


Mushrooms...these are AMAZING!!!! But, if you know me, you know I love mushrooms!

3 large button mushrooms
1 teaspoon butter
1/2 teaspoon veggie oil
1/4 teaspoon rosemary
garlic salt to taste
fresh ground pepper

1. Wash and dry the mushrooms, then slice them to about 1/4" thickness and set aside.
2. In your saute pan, over a medium heat, put the butter and oil together and let them mix together throughly.
3. When the butter mixture is nice and hot (starting to bubble up a little)add your mushrooms.
4. They'll start to absorb the butter...don't add more!! Instead, when they are starting to brown add your rosemary and a couple dashes of garlic salt and a bit of freshly ground pepper.
5. Cook this all together for about 4 or 5 minutes. You want the mushrooms to get pretty and brown colored.

Put the mushrooms over the burger and you're set!

You know, the funny thing is that I used to not be interested in sweet potatoes AT ALL! Now, I can't get enough! I guess that's a good thing since they're pretty healthy--even with a little bit of sugar on them!

Till next time, happy cooking!

Amy