I was going to make cookie dough stuffed cupcakes… but I ran out of time. 🙂 So, come back next week for that amazing (or perhaps not amazing) recipe and my thoughts on that. I’m hoping to make that this weekend. In between my craziness.
For today I’m going to post about the healthier foods I’ve been enjoying this week. I made I.P. cauliflower “mashed potatoes” today, but I’m pretty sure I’ve already written about that. If I haven’t and you’re curious, just let me know. I’ve also had steamed broccoli and green beans but my favorite this week has been the sweet potatoes. Which, I know, I know, that’s not a veggie, it’s a starch… but it’s healthier than what I’ve been eating for that past couple of months!
I love sweet potato fries, but it takes over 45 min to bake in the oven. Sometimes I’m too hungry to wait that long. Okay. Most of the time. So I looked up the best way to microwave the sweet potato and I actually love it! So, if you’re curious here is:
- Wash your sweet potato and stab it with a fork a few times.
- Wrap it in a paper towel and place in your microwave.
- Cook for 5-6 min. (Mine needed 6 min)
- Done!
See? I can wait 6 min to eat. I usually making the Littles food at that time anyway. 🙂
What’s your favorite healthy veggie?
Okay, I finally got logged back in, so now I can go back and comment on all your posts.
I love sweet potatoes, too, but I think they taste much better if they are baked for about two hours in the real oven. So what I do is buy a bag of them and bake them all at the same time (in tin foil in the oven) and then scoop them out, mash them all up and put them in freezer bags, so all I have to do is thaw them in the microwave and eat them. The extra sweetness that comes out from long baking makes it totally worth that extra step of baking them. And when it comes time to eat them, the heating up process is a quick as cooking a fresh one in the microwave.
Ooooh! That’s a great idea. So do I poke them with a fork before covering them with foil and putting them in the oven? And what temp?
No, I don’t poke them. They won’t explode in the tin foil. I think I do them at about 375. It is something you just watch and keep feeling them until they feel done. I want them REALLY soft.
I’m totally going to try that right now!