Sweet Potato Corn and Cheddar Fritters

Fritter is a fun word, isn’t it?

It’s fun to say, they’re fun to eat and it totally skirts around the reality of the situation which is, it’s fried.

I could’ve probably called these sweet potato corn and cheddar balls too but I like to reserve that word for round objects of the sweeter, no bake variety. I also find the need to make inappropriate comments when the word “ball” is in the title of a post and I’m just not feeling that witty at the moment.

So, here we are with fritters which you should know I pronounce in my head as FRITT-AHS! (part Boston accent part circus announcer).

Would you believe this is actually the first time in my life that I’ve legit fried something?

Yep. My frying virginity has been taken. I was waiting for Mr. Right all this time. He finally came along dressed as a sweet potato, seduced me with roasted corn and cheddar cheese, totally won me over, made me a woman and left me high and dry with a house that still smells like a fast food joint and an empty OJ container half filled with used oil.

It wasn’t as glamorous as they said it’d be.

Isn’t that what everyone says?

Everything I make recently seems to warrant this type of explanation because nothing is straight up what it seems.

So here we go…these are a sweet potato fry meets a hush puppy, meets a cheesy-gooey cheddar popper.

Any objections?

I didn’t think so.

Go get your fry on. FRITT-AHS!

Try these chicken spinach fritters for a baked version or these buffalo chicken broccoli cheddar bites for other fritter-ish food. This beer battered fish is another fried recipe worth the effort (and lingering smell).