What is a Balaboosta?
Balaboosta (n.)(bah-lah-b00-sta) A Yiddish term meaning the perfect housewife, homemaker, wonderful mother, cook, and gracious hostess. She does it all and does it well.
I make simple food with easy recipes and I like to try new things. My family and friends love my cooking and always ask me to share, with them, what I know about food, flavor, and technique.
I'm not a professional chef and I've had no formal culinary training. What I know and do in the kitchen comes from three women...Nana, Grandma Della, and Rose, my mom. Each one of them knew more about putting a meal on the table than any fancy chef in a white hat. They were the ultimate
Balaboostas.
What I offer you is a lifetime of experience in the kitchen with my compliments and theirs. I hope they'd be proud. I will bring you my recipes as I make them with photos of the actual food I'm preparing. I'm no professional photographer either but I promise, my food will speak for itself in every picture.
The food on my table isn't stacked in a trendy tower.
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As I mentioned in my previous post on Sweet Potato Oven Fries, you can make these fiber rich sweeties into a savory side dish with the use of some ordinary spices.
This recipe is serves 4 on average.
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Ingredients...
- 4 cups Sweet Potatoes peeled and cut in small dice (I suggest cutting into 1/4" sticks first and then cutting the sticks into small cubes)
- 2 tablespoons Extra Virgin Olive Oil
- 1 teaspoon Kosher Salt
- 1 teaspoon freshly ground Black Pepper
- 2 teaspoons Dried Ground Cumin
- 2 teaspoons Powdered or Granulated Garlic
Here's how you do it...- Heat your skillet over medium.
- Add oil to the heated pan.
- Add the cubed sweet potatoes.
- Sprinkle on and toss with Salt, Pepper, Garlic, and Cumin
- Fry for 4-5 minutes until edges touching the pan start to brown.
- Toss again.
- Continue to fry and toss another 4-5 minutes until all sides are brown & crispy.
- Taste and adjust salt and pepper if necessary.
Alternate method that works great too...- Pour the oil and spices over the cubed sweet potatoes and toss in a bowl. (You can do this way ahead of time and set aside until you're ready to cook)
- When the pan is heated simply pour the mix into the hot pan.
- Turn the heat down a notch so as to give the inside time to cook before the outside gets crispy.
- Toss every 2-3 minutes until all sides are golden and crisp.
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