Sweet Potata Tacos!!

I love sweet potatoes but get a little tired of the classic super-sweet potato recipes around the holidays. This is a yummy recipe to spice them up, and of course it involves my favorite thing to eat --- TACOS!

This makes enough for two people- meaning I have 2 tacos and Josh has 5.

2 large sweet potatoes (or yams)
1 tbs dijon (adjust to taste)
2 tbs maple syrup
paprika to taste

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Peel and chop potatoes and boil until just tender. Strain and place potatoes in small 8x8 or similar baking dish. In a small bowl, mix dijon, maple syrup and paprika - adding dashes of paprika to taste. Pour glaze over potatoes in baking dish and stir gently until well coated- making more glaze if needed. Bake for 10 or so minutes, until they are bubbling and the glaze has thickened a bit.

Remove from oven and serve in tacos. I like to use corn tortillas (warmed in oven) with black beans (cook black beans with cumin for spice). Favorite Toppings: cilantro, avocado, red onion, spinach. If you want to go naked (no taco wrap) serve on a bed of spinach with toppings.

For kids, skip the paprika (and cumin) and mash potatoes.

Enjoy!!

With a little help from my friends...

Hey all you home-cookers!
We've all talked about how hard it is to come up with quick and easy healthy meals for our family's and life on the go. So I thought, why not start a blog where we can each take turns posting recipes!! I thought that each week one of us could post a recipe for the others to try!!

I don't think we need a schedule or anything... I say we operate on inspiration! Some weeks I am on a run and seem to come up with numerous yummy concoctions, and other weeks, well let's just say we keep the take-out menus in a handy drawer.

Some considerations: be sure to note whether this is something you pulled out of a magazine and have never tried. It makes such a difference when you are trying to cook from anther's recipe. Also, most of us are trying to steer away from the meat, cheese and potato meal so be sure to try posting stuff that is either veggie, vegan or has options to be...
And of course, keep in mind those kids and picky husbands!!

Thoughts, opinions, ideas? Want to add others?!

I couldn't think of a better mix of woman to do this with!!

xo!
Sash