I love sweet potato and I love sweet potato chips. Erica von Trapp aka bubblechild recently wrote about her perfect recipe for sweet potato chips.
I’m reproducing Erica’s recipe here and I’ll make it clear if I deviate from her recipe. Erica also has a YouTube channel. I reckon you should check it out, especially if you have food intolerances.
- 1 large sweet potato washed and dried
- 2–3 tablespoons of olive oil
- ½ teaspoon sea salt
- Erica suggests cinnamon but I went with chilli flakes and cracked black pepper
- Cut the sweet potato in half, then cut 1 cm thick batons.
- Cut again perpendicular to make 10 cm long chips.
- Repeat with other half.
- In large bowl, soak cut potatoes in room temperature water for at least 2 hours, can leave overnight.
- Strain and rinse potatoes, and leave them in the strainer to dry off while you pre-heat your oven to about 200 °C.
- In large bowl, toss with olive oil and sea salt, and lay on large baking sheet with no overlap.
- Bake for about 25 minutes, turning a few times if you want them really evenly colored.
- You’ll know they’re done when you can poke a fork through them easily and the outside is crispy.
- Remove from oven, salt a bit more if you’d like, and serve.
Friday lunch at the hospital was a nice sandwich. It’s nice to have a good cafe at the hospital that sells a good variety of food including sandwiches, sushi, hot food and pastries.
A doctor friend at the hospital saw this at a meeting in California and brought me back a tin of bacon candy. I’m looking forward to trying this out.
Dinner on Friday night was a beef burger with a fennel salad and some avocado served with potato gems (tater tots). This made me feel so full afterwards. It may have something to do with the extra potato gems that I cooked and didn’t have in the photograph (guilty pleasure there).
On my walk around Lake Ginninderra today I nearly stood on this tortoise. I released him/her near the edge of Lake Ginninderra. I hope he/she survives. His/her shell was cracked.
Lake Ginninderra looked good. I like walking around Lake Ginninderra on a still day. The reflections are so nice.
Some eastern grey kangaroos. I wish I could get closer but there was a wire fence in the way and as soon as I clicked the first shot they hopped away.
A pelican preening on Lake Ginninderra. I wonder if it notices its reflection. If only there was a duck in the water that could be seen in the pelican made frame. That would have been a great composition.
It was warm, I enjoyed a delicious caramel thick shake from Heather’s House of Cake. I’m glad this wasn’t one of those outrageous shakes that have become trendy. I reckon the shakes with stuff hanging over the edge and connected with cake and stuff are just over the top too much. There are already too many calories in a standard milk shake or thick shake.
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I hope you enjoy Erica’s sweet potato chips. I reckon I may make these again tomorrow night.
