Freedom Fries

My lovely cousin Allison is smart, funny, gregarious, loving, giving, and about 10 years my junior. In the past, I loved her visits because inevitably we would end up scarfing down rich foods like duck, In 'n Out burgers, or dim sum. The girl loves her meat.  A few weeks ago she came to stay with us after having finished a vegan "reboot" with her husband, Jason. The reboot allowed for eggs on certain days but was mostly vegan. During the first week of the reboot, Allison and Jason suffered through severe caffeine withdrawals and were miserable without their daily intake of coffee, meat, and dairy. But the second week surprisingly found them meeting each day without the usual symptoms that would normally plague them. After the third week, they returned to their carnivorous ways but Jason, a meat-and-potatoes kind of guy, felt so much better he determined that future vegan reboots would be necessary for a healthier life.

Anyway, these Freedom Fries are for Jason and Allison.  The Freedom Fries are, for the most part, free of oil.  I tried not using oil on the baking sheet and ended up with most of the fries stuck to the sheet. Now I lightly mist the sheet with olive oil. BTW, Mikae LOVES them.

Ingredients
3-4 yams sliced with skin into 1/2 x 1/2 inch sticks
2 T water
1 T honey
salt

Directions
1) Preheat oven to 400 degrees F
2) Spray baking sheet with oil
3) Place yam sticks onto baking sheet
4) In a tiny pot, heat the water and honey so that the honey is completely mixed with the water
5) Brush water and honey mixture onto the tops of the yam sticks
6) Lightly shake salt onto sticks
7) Bake for 20 minutes at 400 degrees F

Here are my beautiful Freedom Fries.

 

Below you can see that they came off very easily.