{"id":997,"date":"2012-01-17T18:36:31","date_gmt":"2012-01-17T18:36:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aysontespli.ca\/?p=997"},"modified":"2012-01-17T18:57:47","modified_gmt":"2012-01-17T18:57:47","slug":"cajun-sweet-potatoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/aysontespli.ca\/?p=997","title":{"rendered":"Cajun Sweet Potatoes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My sister made these once, well, she probably makes them from time to time. I suppose I should say that she made them one time when I was visiting her and I loved them! I forgot to get her recipe which is a shame because I think I liked her version better. Or maybe, just maybe I should actually follow a recipe as stated and use measuring spoons?<\/p>\n<p>I googled Cajun Sweet Potatoes (at least I remembered what they were called!) and found this recipe. I was also making Perogy Casserole and was able to get two casserole dishes on my single oven rack! \u00a0I thought the Cajun Sweet Potatoes were a nice side for the Perogy Casserole.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_999\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-999\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/aysontespli.ca\/?attachment_id=999\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-999\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-999\" title=\"Cajun Sweet Potatoes\" src=\"http:\/\/aysontespli.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5638-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Cajun Sweet Potatoes\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"http:\/\/aysontespli.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5638-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/aysontespli.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5638-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-999\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cajun Sweet Potatoes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>1 1\/2 teaspoon Paprika<br \/>\n1 \u00a0teaspoon Brown Sugar<br \/>\n1\/4 teaspoon Black Pepper<br \/>\n1\/4 teaspoon Onion Powder<br \/>\n1\/4 teaspoon Dried Thyme<br \/>\n1\/4 teaspoon Dried Rosemary<br \/>\n1\/4 teaspoon Garlic Powder<br \/>\n1\/8 teaspoon Cayenne<br \/>\n2 large Sweet Potatoes<br \/>\n1 1\/2 teaspoon Olive Oil<\/p>\n<p>Preheat oven to 375F.<br \/>\nLightly spray a 9&#215;13 casserole dish with vegetable oil spray.<br \/>\nPeel sweet potatoes and cut into cubes; place in casserole dish.<br \/>\nDrizzle with olive oil.<br \/>\nSprinkle herbs and spices over sweet potato cubes: toss to coat all cubes.<br \/>\nBake in preheated oven for about 30 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>As mentioned above, I did not measure any of the herbs and spices; I just sprinkled away, straight out of the Tupperware containers. I will say I added heaps more cayenne than listed. I would also say that I used quite a bit more onion and garlic powder.<\/p>\n<p>For the original Recipe and Method used:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/allrecipes.com\/recipe\/cajun-style-baked-sweet-potato\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Cajun Sweet Potatoes @ AllRecipes.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Cajun Sweet Potatoes we made at my sisters over the past summer.<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1007\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1007\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/aysontespli.ca\/?attachment_id=1007\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1007\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/aysontespli.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_18021-1024x800.jpg\" alt=\"Cajun Sweet Taters\" title=\"Cajun Sweet Taters\" width=\"640\" height=\"500\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1007\" srcset=\"http:\/\/aysontespli.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_18021-1024x800.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/aysontespli.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_18021-300x234.jpg 300w, http:\/\/aysontespli.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_18021.jpg 1665w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1007\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cajun Sweet Taters at my Sister&#039;s<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My sister made these once, well, she probably makes them from time to time. I suppose I should say that she made them one time when I was visiting her and I loved them! I forgot to get her recipe which is a shame because I think I liked her version better. Or maybe, just &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/aysontespli.ca\/?p=997\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cajun Sweet Potatoes<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-side-dishes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/aysontespli.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/aysontespli.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/aysontespli.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aysontespli.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aysontespli.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=997"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/aysontespli.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1009,"href":"http:\/\/aysontespli.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997\/revisions\/1009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/aysontespli.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aysontespli.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aysontespli.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}