Today I’d like to share the first of what I hope are many recipes to come. I filmed this on Monday night after I came home from work. This is one of my many simple and quick dinners that I make after a long day. While I typically pre-make most of my meals, one or two nights out of the week I feel inspired to play around in the kitchen a bit.
One of the best parts of recovering from an eating disorder is the freedom that I have in the kitchen. When I was sick I would have had to weigh the sweet potato, and measure out exactly how much coconut milk, olive oil, and chickpeas I used. To be honest, I probably wouldn’t even cook with some of these ingredients because they are too calorically dense. After recovery, all of that fear is just a distant memory. Now I can experiment, estimate, make mistakes, and I know everything will be okay. This has allowed me to become a better amateur chef and a happier person.
I hope you enjoy this meal as much as I did! I think I actually preferred it heated up the next day. It is super filling, nutritious, and it is vegan! (I am not vegan – but this is!)
My oh my, where has the time gone!?I cannot believe that it is already November!I apologize for abandoning this blog for so long.I had such high hopes for all of my baking adventures in college but unfortunately they have just not come to fruition the way I expected them to!Of course, I do bake occasionally, but I often forget to take pictures and only remember after I’m already halfway done the last one…
these were so incredible the entire batch literally only lasted 30 minutes
I could give you all my excuses for why I’ve been gone, but instead I’m going to post something a little bit different today.Today I will be listing a few of the cheap, easy, and delicious meals I make for myself here at school!I hope that others find inspirations in the meals that I have come to develop as my own throughout the past few years!
As many of my loyal readers may know, my breakfast is the same every single day.However, what I make for lunch and dinner changes between a few different meals.Here are three of my favorites!
Sweet Potato Quesadilla (This isn’t really a quesadilla, but you’ll see why I call it that in a minute)
INGREDIENTS:
-Sweet potato
-Shredded cheese (I prefer cheddar)
-Guac/salsa
DIRECTIONS: 1. Rinse off a medium/large sized sweet potato and pierce it with a fork several times
2. Microwave for 4 minutes, flip it and microwave for another 4 minutes
3. Cut open the sweet potato and slice up the insides
4. Sprinkle shredded cheese all over the inside of the sweet potato, make sure you get it into every nook and cranny!
5. Place back in the microwave for one minute or until all of the cheese is melted
6. Top with salsa and guacamole
7. Enjoy!
DIRECTIONS: 1. Thaw out a portion of frozen shrimp (frozen food is a life saver)
2. Bring a pot of salted water to a boil
3. Place lo mein noodles into the boiling water
4. Wait a minute then add shrimp and frozen vegetables (or, if using fresh veggies don’t add them)
5. Once shrimp and noodles are almost cooked through all the way strain the pot and put the food into a pan (this is where fresh veggies would be added)
6. Stir fry with stir fry sauce of choice
7. Serve in noodle bowl with chopsticks (and sriracha!) And enjoy!
Pumpkin Avocado Rice Bowl
INGREDIENTS: -1 cup brown rice
-1 cup water
-1/2 cup pumpkin puree
-salt n pepper
-1/2 avocado
-parmesan cheese
DIRECTIONS: 1. Start boiling the water
2. Once it comes to a boil add the rice AND pumpkin and stir together.
3. Reduce heat to low, cover the pot and let the rice cook normally.
4. After it is cooked, stir it all up. The pumpkin should have cooked into the rice but you won’t be able to really see that until you stir it a bit.
5. Transfer to a bowl
6. Top with 1/2 a diced avocado and parmesan cheese
7. mix it up and YUM!
I hope y’all enjoyed this different kind of post! I promise to bring more baked goods to this blog as the holiday season approaches!
Growing up I was always that kid that absolutely REFUSED to eat my vegetables. I remember sitting at the kitchen table for hours while my mom forced me to have at least one bite of spinach. My parents tried everything! They covered the veggies with sauce or cheese, they tried to spruce them up to make them more interesting to me, but I was a very stubborn child. I was set in my ways and refused to learn to like vegetables. It’s ironic that now as an adult (or a larger child, as I often consider myself) I absolutely LOVE veggies! I try and have a vegetable component in almost every meal, and one of my favorites is the sweet potato!
Sweet potatoes are actually one of my absolute favorite foods of all time.They are second in line behind my everbelovedoatmeal.They include many essential vitamins, including B6, C, D, and A!You basically cover all the important alphabetical vitamins in one serving of this fun vegetable!That’s another thing – they’re a vegetable that tastes like a dessert!What a serious win win.
I buy tons of sweet potatoes every time I go to the store because they can store for a long time.Whenever I don’t feel like cooking a big meal I simply wash a sweet potato, poke a few holes in if with a fork and microwave it for 8 minutes – rotating once at the 4 minute mark.Then I can just cut it open straight from the microwave and load it up with whatever delicious fillings I want!(Chickpeas, cheese, yogurt, honey, cinnamon sugar, nutella, or simply salt/pepper and butter!)However, when I have more time I like to get a little fancier with my sweet potatoes and make myself some sweet oven baked fries!The recipe is easy and the outcome is SO DELICIOUS OH MY GOSH!You’ll just have to try it yourself to believe me!(And this is also a great way to get some vital nutrients into picky kids!)
1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees
2. Place sweet potato in microwave for 1-2 minutes so that it’s softer and easier to cut
3. Cut sweet potato into long fry-like strips and place into a bowl (I keep the skins on because I love them, but you can peel your potato if desired)
4. Add the rest of the ingredients of top of the cut potatoes and mix with your hands until each slice is fully covered and the ingredients have all mixed together
5. Spread out the strips onto a sprayed baking sheet
6. Place in oven for 30 minutes
7. Let cool for 5 minutes and then enjoy!
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