Dutch Oven

I want one.

Tee hee!

Wish lists aside, here are three tasty dishes I've made over the past four days :)

Black Bean and Sweet Potato Chili:

Jamie Oliver's Good Ol' Chili con Carne:

and finally, Sweet Potato and Carrot Curried Lentils:

YUM.

Baby Steps

Let's break down the steps to a happy night, shall we?

Step One:
Go to ZUMBA!

Step Two..... walk home in the rain..

Step Three: turn oven on to 400ºF and put a sweet potato (¡pierced with a fork a few times!) on tin foil on a cookie sheet and place in preheating/ed oven.

Go and take a shower for Step Four (See step one as to why)

Step Five, put some pj's on! And mix some canned black beans with some freshly cut jalapeño and cumin then microwave for 30 ish seconds until nice and tasty.

Step six! Remove Sweet tater from oven after letting it bake for 45 minutes, carefully cut in half, and put black beans and cheese on top! Then put back in oven after turning it off to let the cheese melt for a few seconds.

Step Seven= serve with sugar snap peas because they are amazing and should be renamed CRACK peas. Seriously. I can't stop!

BE HAPPY :-)

I went to town on this puppy. And now I'm eating even more snap crack peas.

MLK weekend

It's a good thing there aren't long weekends very often. If there were- I'd be broke! Oh wait.. I already am :/

About a week ago I invested in two sweet potatoes. After they sat around on my desk a while (seriously- what other college kid has sweet potatoes chilling in their room??), I baked one of them in the microwave, and ate it with a bit of cinnamon and butter. It was just okay- I probably needed to add more of both, but I was pressed for time.

With the second one I wanted to be more creative, but by this point in the weekend I was broke. I used what I had: my sweet potato, olive oil, salt and pepper. And I made sweet potato fries/disks/chips!!

I put the disks and olive oil in sandwich bag and mixed it all up!

Then I laid all the chips out on a cookie sheet and put on the salt and pepper. I went a little crazy with the pepper, but it tasted good!

I popped them in the oven at 405 degrees for about 10 minutes, then took out all of the smaller chips so they didn't burn, and I ate those ones!

About fifteen minutes later, the rest were ready.

Before:

After:

Yum.