Bean Burgers & Sweet Potato Fries

As Carmen mentioned in her last post, we had to switch up this week's recipes a little bit. The Bean Burger recipe was supposed to be Friday, but since we were running the Help for Hope House 5k Friday night, we decided to rearrange the meals and have this on Saturday instead.

This recipe was a little more complicated than many of the others. It was well worth the effort though. These burgers were quite tasty. The sweet potato fries didn't turn out very crisp, so they weren't very fry-like. We cooked them on a Silpat liner and that caused them to stay kind of soft. They were still delicious though! I just wouldn't call them fries.

Being healthy back home is tough!

Trying to eat healthy when we go to visit our parents in Mississippi is very, very difficult. They constantly offer us cake and cookies and sweet tea and other delicious, yet fattening, things. Of course, they are just being good southern hosts, so it is in their nature to try to fatten us up.

Our commitment to Seasoning Lent really paid off. This is the first time I remember coming home from a trip to visit them and not feeling like I gained 10 pounds. We took all of our own food and resisted all the tempting things they offered us.

Saturday night, we cooked sweet potatoes with warm black bean salsa. I never would have thought that a combination like this would be as good as it was. It was super quick and easy to make and the sweetness of the sweet potato perfectly complimented the spiciness of the black bean salsa.