After my Legs and Abs workout at the gym it was dinner time. Thankfully! I was so hungry yesterday. I have no idea what prompted it (hibernation weather?). I was out of car snacks so I restocked small snack bags of Raisin Bran cereal and pretzels to keep in my car.
Michael made turkey burgers for dinner. It’s been quite a while since we’ve had turkey burgers. Last night’s were delicious. He added chopped jalapenos and shredded white cheddar to the patties.
Over the weekend I picked up some onion hamburger buns (190 calories each). I was in charge of prepping the buns. Michael grilled the patties in the skillet.
Saturday night Michael and I made a remarkable dinner. The sweet potato fries we made were probably the best thing I’ve eaten in a long time. I picked up (what I thought) more sweet potatoes at the store to do it again.
What the heck did I buy? Did I accidentally pick up yams instead of sweet potatoes? They definitely weren’t as good as Saturday’s night’s creation. 🙁
Michael coated the fries in Grapeseed oil, sprinkled salt and pepper, paprika and garlic powder. We basically recreated the exact recipe as Saturday. The fries weren’t very flavorful. I am so confused!
After the stressful gym session, I poured myself a glass of Chardonnay. It really hit the spot.
Even though I’m disappointed about the fries, the burgers were great.
Dinner was a good one, even if the fries weren’t as sweet as before. They were still by far better than plain ol’ fries!
I must have been just worn out last night. I feel asleep immediately (which is strange because I have insomnia). Just as I fell asleep, this little gargoyle jumped on my head:
Michael says I woke up, yelled at the cat for jumping on my head, and then immediately fell back asleep. 😉
This morning I woke up after a solid 9 hours of uninterrupted sleep (awesome) to find Fat Kitty snuggled underneath the blankets spooning me and purring. Awwwwww!
Michael surprised me with a creative new breakfast:
Scrambled eggs with pigs n’ a blanket! He used the crescent rolls and wrapped them around a turkey sausage link! It was awesome. Good invention, Michael!
It was a great way to start the day: flaky, warm, freshly baked crescent rolls. YUM….
QUESTION: What the heck did I buy? Sweet potatoes or yams or what?
Beth @ Beth's Journey to Thin
Aww thats so cute that he made you breakfast – I love it! I don’t know WHAT those are to be honest! Every sweet potato I’ve ever met has been orange inside.
kalin
yams and sweet potatoes are the same thing, just different colors. you can’t get true yams in the US (real ones are giant, and our yams got their names because slaves in the south called the orange sweet potatoes “yams” because they looked similar to the yams grown in africa)
the white tend to be starchier, and the orange ones softer, so the white would have a different texture than you’re used to…
(i am a fountain of useless trivia!)
Lisa Eirene
NOT useless! Thank you! I must have gotten a whiter yam or something. Mystery solved.
Carbzilla
Kalin’s right (I Googled it). Pretty much everything in the US is a variety of sweet potato. I try to buy the rounder redder ones to avoid what you got above.
You might like turnip fries. They’re actually pretty yummy.
Rutabaga = yuck
Lisa
Looks like white sweet potato to me! We can also get purple ones too!
Lisa Eirene
What do the purple ones taste like?
Diane Fit to the Finish
I love sweet potatoes or yams or whatever those orange things are!!