Pork BBQ....Easy?

I thought that tonight would be a boring dinner so I hadn't planned on posting anything. My mom cooked pork, froze it and brought it to us last weekend. So my plan for dinner was just to heat up the pork for BBQ sandwiches and then have some sweet potato fries on the side. Ben has made these fries numerous times and I figured even though I never really paid attention to the details of how he made them, I could probably do it.

This afternoon I looked up a recipe for sweet potato fries. http://cookieandkate.com/2010/baked-sweet-potato-fries/ I was excited to have something easy (sandwiches) paired with a new challenge.

I had the potatoes ready to go into the oven on the counter and the pork was thawed. Ben came home and saw the potatoes. He proceeded to try and tell me about how he makes them. I got defensive and explained how I needed to do this on my own. I was excited about the recipe. Somewhere inside of me I knew he was probably right but I really hoped he was wrong. We had a nice heated conversation about it and the resolution was that I would do them my way and then we hugged. Once G saw our hugging he came running towards us saying "Big Hugs!!" So we had a nice family hug :).

OK, back to the food. I put the potatoes in the oven and started to warm up the pork. Ben gave me a quick and easy recipe for BBQ sauce (1/3 BBQ sauce, 1/3 dijon mustard, 1/3 apple cider vinegar). I added the sauce and successfully warmed up the pork.

Now, I need to admit that while I was preparing the potatoes I didn't follow the recipe exactly as written. Ben is always saying how he "eyes" things like the spices so I thought I would give that a try....In the recipe she says you can use cayenne pepper so I chose that spice. I "eyed" how much to add and I felt pretty good about it.

Ben helped me toast the pretzel buns we added some lettuce and it was time to eat!

I was anxious to try the potatoes and after one bite I knew Ben was right and soon after I also realized that I should NEVER eye a spice I know nothing about. My mouth was on fire. I waited to say anything, but then I asked Ben if they were too spicy. He said no. Then he said yes. Good thing Georgie's sweet potatoes were steamed.

In the future I will use Ben's recipe for potatoes and I will try to be less defensive when he offers advice. All in all it was a success. We ate the potatoes and hopefully no one will suffer any major consequences.