Although I’ve read that it’s always best to eat foods that are in season, there are certain foods that I love so much I couldn’t bear to give them up. Not to mention, I’m ridiculously stubborn when it comes to satisfying my cravings

Sweet Potatoes happen to be one of the foods that I refuse to go without. Fortunately, you can find them in the grocery store practically year-round. Unfortunately, right now it’s slim-pickin’s. So when I recently decided that I absolutely had to have sweet potato chips, I was willing to do anything to get them. This time that meant going to the grocery store and spending thirty minutes digging through and scrutinizing every sweet potato until I found the perfect one. Like I said, I’m stubborn. But in the end, my efforts completely paid off and this was the wonderful result:

It probably doesn’t look like a lot of chips, but that’s because I couldn’t stop myself from eating them while I was trying to take a picture. Before cooking (and eating) the chips, this  was my beautiful bounty:

To make things as simple as possible, I used my mandoline slicer, but you could easily slice the sweet potato by hand using a knife. The only thing I will do differently next time is to double the recipe so that I can have leftovers

These sweet potato chips are the perfect warm weather treat: they’re delicious as an afternoon snack or served alongside your favorite veggie burger or sandwich. And they’re so easy to make that you’ll wonder (like I did) why you haven’t made them before!