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Thursday, November 1, 2012

Fire Placed Sweet Potatoes

Got a fireplace and a nice hot fire?
Cook sweet potatoes for a taste treat.
It's easy to do and is amazing tasting.
The skin of the potato gets crispy brown,
the potato is all creamy and smokey good.
If you have a fire, do this it's very good.

Ingredients:
For each sweet potato

1 fresh whole sweet potato
1 teaspoon olive oil
1 teaspoon brown sugar
Dash of salt or to taste

Directions:
Make a wood fueled fire in fireplace.
Rinse potato and dry with paper towel.
Use your hands to completly coat
skin of potato with olive oil.
Place potato on a piece of aluminum foil
that is large enough to wrap it up in.
Sprinkle oil coated potato with salt
and also a sprinkle of brown sugar.
Wrap potato up inside aluminum foil.
Place aluminum foil wrapped potato on
another large piece of aluminum foil.
Wrap foil around potato and seal tightly.
Place foil sealed potato in fireplace.
Let cook for 60 minutes, turning a few times
to keep all sides of the potato near the coals.
Using metal tongs remove cooked potato from fire.
Open aluminum foil and cut potato in half,
serve with unsalted butter if desired.

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