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sweet potato preparation
Nov. 13th, 2023 12:06 pmMarc does all the cooking in our house, which I appreciate, but when he travels it's my chance to get in there and cook something that I like more than him. He is a meat and potatoes guy, I like vegan recipes, soup, salads, lighter things. The first few years after we had kids I was AWFUL at cooking, I didn't know how to cook because he always did it. I'd make the kids macaroni and fish sticks just like my inexperienced dad used to make when we were kids and mom left. But a few years into that I resolved to be a responsible adult and learn to make some things for my kids that are not fish sticks.
Vegan tacos top my list of favorite foods. I love fuzzy's tacos with squash cut up into noodle shapes, I also love sweet potato tacos.
Sweet potatoes are easy to dice up and roast, in theory. Dice a potato, roast the cubes in oil and taco spice for about 25 minutes. That's not so hard right?
But it held me back this weekend. I went to the store on the way home from a flying lesson, needing to make dinner. I didn't have it in me to dice a sweet potato. They're HARD. It takes a lot of arm strength with that knife, dammit. And then 25 minutes is kind of a long time.
So I got frozen pizzas. And then I remember olive wanted cauliflower so what the heck, I went to the frozen veggies section and grabbed a package of cauliflower.
THEN what did I see on the top of the freezer shelf, right above the cauliflower? SWEET POTATO!
Already diced, steam-in-a-bag, 5 minutes in the microwave!
The freezer pizzas went back.
I got the frozen sweet potatoes, a can of black beans, a can of corn, flour tortillas. We ended up mixing in the cauliflower because olive didn't like it plain after all, FINE. I had some spicy sour cream dip that I mixed in with some lime. We had veggie tacos, and there's nothing holding me back now!
Vegan tacos top my list of favorite foods. I love fuzzy's tacos with squash cut up into noodle shapes, I also love sweet potato tacos.
Sweet potatoes are easy to dice up and roast, in theory. Dice a potato, roast the cubes in oil and taco spice for about 25 minutes. That's not so hard right?
But it held me back this weekend. I went to the store on the way home from a flying lesson, needing to make dinner. I didn't have it in me to dice a sweet potato. They're HARD. It takes a lot of arm strength with that knife, dammit. And then 25 minutes is kind of a long time.
So I got frozen pizzas. And then I remember olive wanted cauliflower so what the heck, I went to the frozen veggies section and grabbed a package of cauliflower.
THEN what did I see on the top of the freezer shelf, right above the cauliflower? SWEET POTATO!
Already diced, steam-in-a-bag, 5 minutes in the microwave!
The freezer pizzas went back.
I got the frozen sweet potatoes, a can of black beans, a can of corn, flour tortillas. We ended up mixing in the cauliflower because olive didn't like it plain after all, FINE. I had some spicy sour cream dip that I mixed in with some lime. We had veggie tacos, and there's nothing holding me back now!