Maybe I'll break out that yummy sweet potato pancake recipe from last week:
Refrain from commenting about how good your pancakes taste. Please and Thank You :)
Showing posts with label sweet potatoes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sweet potatoes. Show all posts
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Day 16
I'm a little sad today. It's National Pancake Day. One of my favorite meals in the world is brinner...breakfast for dinner. I've gotten TWO invitations to go to IHop for free pancakes today, sigh.
Maybe I'll break out that yummy sweet potato pancake recipe from last week:
Find the recipe here
Refrain from commenting about how good your pancakes taste. Please and Thank You :)
Maybe I'll break out that yummy sweet potato pancake recipe from last week:
Refrain from commenting about how good your pancakes taste. Please and Thank You :)
Monday, February 27, 2012
Day 15
Half way through and Praise the Lord for new recipes for sweet potatoes! I was about to throw in the towel. I was ready to let the starving people of the world shake their heads at me as I threw away all of my sweet potatoes. And then I was reminded that, although a complete time suck, my life is much more complete since the invention of Pinterest. (If you haven't been to Pinterest go there now!) Pinterest has been my life saver. I would be stuck eating a dry chicken breast on spinach for every meal of every day, if it had not been for Pinterest.
Word of warning...the following is a completely optional, light-hearted, complaint that you may find funny or...just don't take offense:
I spend a lot of time with women of all ages, and when I explain what I'm doing, I get this a lot: "Well that's how I eat anyway!" Maybe it's because I'm in the health and wellness field and women like to look good in front of other women, or maybe it's because people truly don't know what they are putting into their bodies, but I will contend, no you do not.
You may often eat chicken and spinach salads. But I am willing to bet you have that as your lunch no more than 4 times a week, which is 16 times per month. And even if you do eat them "often," I bet you add other veg and maybe cheese, nuts or a great dressing. I'm willing to bet a lot of money that you do not eat these salads with the same ingredients every time and without dressing or the other tasty additions of my dreams. And I would surmise that you would be in my shoes if you had committed to eating exactly that for 93 meals straight. So please, my friends, spare me the "this-sounds-easy-and-not-a-challenge-at-all", it's definitely not encouraging because right now, I would absolutely kill for anything else but what I'm eating...I'd even settle for the edible food-like substance that Mickey D's has to offer...and for me, that's really a stretch.
/endrant
So back to these new recipes, ones worthy of another go:
Sweet Potato Pancakes.
YUM! They would have been amazing with some syrup or honey, but they were just as tasty plain!
Sweet Potato Meatloaf
Let's just be honest here, I had to omit a few seasoning items, but oh my goodness the addition of mashed sweet potato with the ground chicken makes for an extremely moist meatloaf! I was expecting completely bone-dry.
Chicken and Spinach Meatballs
I took A LOT of artistic liberties here. Specifically, I put the spinach in ground chicken and without all the goodies it says. They were good, not spectacular, but good.
I have nothing profound to end with. Nothing special that I've learned in the time since my last post, but to tell you how much you NEED to go check out Pinterest. Now.
Word of warning...the following is a completely optional, light-hearted, complaint that you may find funny or...just don't take offense:
I spend a lot of time with women of all ages, and when I explain what I'm doing, I get this a lot: "Well that's how I eat anyway!" Maybe it's because I'm in the health and wellness field and women like to look good in front of other women, or maybe it's because people truly don't know what they are putting into their bodies, but I will contend, no you do not.
You may often eat chicken and spinach salads. But I am willing to bet you have that as your lunch no more than 4 times a week, which is 16 times per month. And even if you do eat them "often," I bet you add other veg and maybe cheese, nuts or a great dressing. I'm willing to bet a lot of money that you do not eat these salads with the same ingredients every time and without dressing or the other tasty additions of my dreams. And I would surmise that you would be in my shoes if you had committed to eating exactly that for 93 meals straight. So please, my friends, spare me the "this-sounds-easy-and-not-a-challenge-at-all", it's definitely not encouraging because right now, I would absolutely kill for anything else but what I'm eating...I'd even settle for the edible food-like substance that Mickey D's has to offer...and for me, that's really a stretch.
/endrant
So back to these new recipes, ones worthy of another go:
Sweet Potato Pancakes.
YUM! They would have been amazing with some syrup or honey, but they were just as tasty plain!
Sweet Potato Meatloaf
Let's just be honest here, I had to omit a few seasoning items, but oh my goodness the addition of mashed sweet potato with the ground chicken makes for an extremely moist meatloaf! I was expecting completely bone-dry.
Chicken and Spinach Meatballs
I took A LOT of artistic liberties here. Specifically, I put the spinach in ground chicken and without all the goodies it says. They were good, not spectacular, but good.
I have nothing profound to end with. Nothing special that I've learned in the time since my last post, but to tell you how much you NEED to go check out Pinterest. Now.
Monday, February 13, 2012
Day 1
So yesterday I was in a little bit of a panic. I waited until the last minute to go grocery shopping for the week, and then the grocery store didn't even have everything I needed! Who is OUT of sweet potatoes? Since I have only allotted myself 7 trips to the grocery store, I wasn't too thrilled with having to use up a second trip just to get one item. Anyway, I didn't think too hard about what exactly I was going to cook for the week; waiting for divine inspiration often times ends up with a run to subway or munching on random junk that's sitting in the pantry...so I was feeling a little overwhelmed.
Low and behold this morning, my friend Beca, (the amazing woman who introduced me to Jen Hatmaker's book in the first place...follow her fasting from excess blog here) showed up at Curves with a ten pound bag of sweet potatoes! "Thought you might need these, we are definitely not going to be eating them anytime soon!"
Let's just be honest, we live in America, never did I think a bag of sweet potatoes would be an answer to prayer, or even a prayer I thought about leaving my lips. But oh how cool that was, and just in time for me to run home on break and cook a few of them up.
Matthew 6:26
Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?
It's cool that God cares about stuff like sweet potatoes. God is good.
Low and behold this morning, my friend Beca, (the amazing woman who introduced me to Jen Hatmaker's book in the first place...follow her fasting from excess blog here) showed up at Curves with a ten pound bag of sweet potatoes! "Thought you might need these, we are definitely not going to be eating them anytime soon!"
Let's just be honest, we live in America, never did I think a bag of sweet potatoes would be an answer to prayer, or even a prayer I thought about leaving my lips. But oh how cool that was, and just in time for me to run home on break and cook a few of them up.
Matthew 6:26
Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?
It's cool that God cares about stuff like sweet potatoes. God is good.
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