We had such an excess of sweet potatoes last week (But hey, they were a good price!) I looked for all my recipes using the vegetables. One idea came from Moosewood Restaurant Cooks at Home, one of my favorite cookbooks. The recipe reminded me very much of the quinoa potato pancakes because of the large variety of seasonings. And the concept was just as good. Each seasoning lent its own flavor to the mixture. I can't imagine living without any of them. It only took one shredded potato in between two tortillas each for a full meal. I dressed the plate with green vegetables and tomatoes just for color.

The sweet potato quesadillas had quite an unusual flavor. As I've pointed out before, I don't like highlighting the sweetness of sweet potatoes. I don't enjoy sweet sweet potatoes. I kinda felt the salty cheddar cheese and cumin (although a pleasantly surprising flavor to mix in the shredded sweet potatoes) made the potatoes taste more sweet. But it was still an intriguing enough flavor to make me plan on making them again.

I also loved the speed of preparation. If you can grate the sweet potatoes with a machine and not by hand, your dinner will be on the table in no time. I would call it a quick, kid friendly, party-friendly, weeknight meal. The quesadillas were quite large, too. (We used the medium size from Mission.) In fact, with the veggies, I couldn't even finish mine. I might have been better off packaging half of each and saving them for lunch the next day. But if it was all gone, that's gotta be a sign it was good.

Cost to Make Quesadillas

• $0.30 Sweet Potato (Publix)
• $0.65 Flour Tortillas (Walmart)
• $0.15 Cheese (Publix)
• $0.11 Seasonings (Costco)
• $1.21 Total for two.