Sweet Potato Fries with Honey Mustard Dipping Sauce

Mark here... this recipe is bit of a mix...I used the Barefoot Contessa's sweet potato fries recipe and found a honey mustard dipping recipe on epicurious.com.

Sweet Potato Fries

Ingredients

2 sweet potatoes, peeled and cut into fries
olive oil
1 tablespoon Light brown sugar
salt and pepper

Preheat the oven to 450

The original recipe calls for 2 tablespoons of olive oil, but I probably used more. You want to toss the fries in the olive oil and brown sugar to cover them.  They then go on a sheet pan but I would recommend covering the pan with foil.  Cooking with sugar can be messy and can ruin some pans.  Lightly salt and pepper the fries and then put in the oven.  Here is the tough part, I found they need to be tossed almost constantly or the fries will stick and you could end up with just mashed sweet potato on a pan.  It may take longer as you will be opening the oven a bit, but in the end the fries will be better...although I still found it hard to get them to "crisp" like fries as sweet potatoes tend to go soft.  Anyway, it should take about half an hour or so.

Honey Mustard Dipping Sauce

Ingredients

1 cup mayonnaise
1/3 cup dijon
2 tablespoons of honey
1/4 teaspoon of salt

Combine and serve!

Blue Cheese Burgers

Mark Here...This is taken from the Barefoot Contessa's recipe for Blue Cheese Burgers, although I was using a grill pan instead of an outdoor grill.  We had this while watching Friday Night Lights episode, "Upping the Ante"

Blue Cheese Burgers

Ingredients

3 lbs ground beef (the original recipe called for half chuck and half sirloin, but I want to our local butcher, McCall's, told them what I was making and just got their ground beef...which was amazing)
1/2 cup breadcrumbs
1/4 cup steak sauce
3 large eggs
salt and pepper
buns
blue cheese
arugula
sliced heirloom tomatoes (I picked an assortment)

Lightly mix the first 5 ingredients (salt and pepper to taste), being careful not to mash.   Form hamburger patties.

Cook the burgers a couple minutes each side.  This part is always iffy..3 to 4 minutes a side depending on the size of the patties and how well done you like your burgers ( I prefer medium rare).  Remove the burgers, cover with tin foil and set aside for 5 minutes.  Grill the buns, then assemble the burgers with patty, blue cheese, some arugula and sliced tomatoes.