Bacon Wrapped Sweet Potatoes

To celebrate spring deciding to show up, Mike asked if we could at least grill this week.  So we made some salmon packets on the grill, along with these delicious sweet potatoes.  They were awesome after a hard evening of playing in the dirt!

Ingredients (serves 2 very hungry people as a side):

• Sweet potato, cut into thick (french fry) strips
• Bacon, cut in half to match number of sweet potato strips
• Brown sugar
• Chipotle pepper (dried and preferably in a shakable container)
• Toothpicks (especially helpful if grilling)

Instructions:

1. Boil water and add sweet potato strips.  Cook until tender to pierce with a fork (for mine, I think it took around 15 minutes and that might have been a little long).
2. Remove sweet potato from water and sprinkle with chipotle pepper.
3. Take a strip of sweet potato, and make a small mound of brown sugar (this should caramelize when cooking) the length of the strip.  Wrap with a piece of the bacon and secure with a toothpick.  Repeat until all strips are used (and/or there is no bacon left).
4. Grill until the bacon is cooked then get your sweet potato on!!

Sorry that this is a little not measured, but I modified a recipe as I was going to make it work.. the amount of bacon definitely depends on how big your strips of potato are.  Next time I definitely need to make more potatoes (I used only one) and maybe use mini marshmallows inside the bacon (to make it a little like sweet potato casserole)..