Here's my easy and delish recipe for sweet potato fries. They are actually baked, but they look like fries so that's what we are calling them.
Since other recipes always start with this step, I will too:
Preheat oven to 450 degrees.
But really, the first step is to go to the grocery store and buy 2 medium-sized organic sweet potatoes - Garnets are my favorite - so don't actually preheat the oven until you are back from the store. When you get your sweet potatoes home, peel them. Then cut them in half lengthwise, and then cut the halves into long spears. Fat spears are fine, I am not too picky about the shape.
Pour 2 tablespoons of olive oil on a baking sheet and roll the spears around in the oil so they get coated on all sides. Sprinkle with 1/2 teaspoon kosher or sea salt, and 1/2 teaspoon of ground pepper. Roll them around some more.
Bake in the oven for 15 minutes. Take the pan out of the oven, set it on the stove and using your spatula, flip over the spears so they can cook on the other side. If you happen to be wearing a heat resistant full body suit you can pull the tray out of the oven and turn them right there, but man, your tolerance for heat has got to be pretty damn high. 450 degrees is freaking hot.
Bake for another 7-10 minutes. Sorry I cannot be more specific but it will depend on a) your oven and b) how fat your spears (which I guess we should now be calling fries) are. Test with a fork to make sure they are soft in the middle.
Serve your SPFs hot and you can also sprinkle more salt on them if you want. You will have enough to serve four people unless one of them loves these so much they eat like a pig. If you have any leftover, just put them in a covered container in the fridge and reheat in the mic the next day.