Posts Tagged ‘sweet potatoes’
Sweet Potato Recipes
Everybody knows that sweet potatoes are chock-full o’ vitamins and fiber and minerals and all that. And probably everyone has a couple of go-to sweet potato recipes they use over and over again. Mine are microwaved sweet potatoes with butter, salt and pepper (not exactly a recipe, but it is an easy and quick way…
Read MoreSweet Potato Salad
This sweet potato salad is a great way to have your delicious, potato-y carbohydrates while secretly incorporating some fiber and vitamin A and jalapeños — which are all very healthy. I made a pesto kind of dressing with cilantro and green onions and I have a strong suspicion that a few leaves of mint would…
Read MoreTwice Baked Sweet Potatoes
Baked sweet potatoes are great and all, but twice baked?! Yes, ma’am! I was going to just do this recipe a la casserole but something weird has happened to me through making this show and that is that I have begun thinking of food not only as delicious sustenance, but . . . as .…
Read MoreSweet Potato Biscuits
I was asked to collaborate with ONE.org to create a recipe (and video) using sweet potatoes in order to drum up awareness and excitement for their nutrition campaign this year: Sweet Potato on the Menu; Nutrition on the Agenda, the goal being to encourage world leaders to invest in agriculture to decrease malnutrition. The sweet…
Read MoreSweet Potato Breakfast Tacos
We’re getting the adventures started early this season! You know I have a fascination with food trucks and trailers. There’s something about the entrepreneurship behind them, the ingenuity in their design, the fact that you can DRIVE them, and the hot and sweaty working conditions that just drive me WILD. Usually the food’s pretty good,…
Read MoreHow To Make Tamales
Learn the easy way to make tamales! This video and article walk you through the process from making the dough (masa) to a variety of tamale fillings. Vegan and vegetarian (or not!).
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