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Stuffed Sweet Potatoes

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The meal I’m sharing today is definitely not the prettiest meal, but it was the tastiest new meal that we’ve made in a while. And, it’s super simple, healthy, satisfying and is definitely going to be added to our weeknight meal rotation. There are three parts to this meal: the sweet potato, the protein and the toppings (guac!). Here are the details:

Sweet potatoes:
I roast sweet potatoes weekly and here’s how I do it: wash the sweet potatoes, prick them all over with a fork, wrap tightly in aluminum foil, place in the oven (450°) and bake until soft – usually 45 minutes to an hour, depending on their size. 

Protein:
For this particular meal, I used ground pork (that I buy locally!). I cooked it in a skillet with the green chile sauce pictured below. The flavor of the pork on its own was actually kind of subtle – it did just a have bit of spice to it – but was excellent in the dish as a whole. You could really use any protein you wanted in this recipe – meat or plant-based. I think almost anything would work!

Guacamole:
I love making gauc and usually do it the same every time. For this batch, I used three avocados, the juice of two limes, and a generous pinch of salt and pepper. I blend everything together until very smooth in my Ninja.

Tomatoes:
I mixed cherry tomatoes with a touch of avocado oil, fresh cilantro, salt and pepper. Simple and delicious.

Putting the meal together is so simple: Split open the sweet potato and fill with your protein of choice. Top with lots (and lots) of guacamole, tomatoes and a sprinkle of fresh cilantro, and enjoy!

This meal was not photogenic, so I didn’t include many photos, but it was oh so nourishing and tasty.

*Note about the green chile sauce I use in this recipe – I am all about making things from scratch, but there are a few things that I will buy already made – things like the green chile sauce I used in this recipe. I am super picky about buying packaged goods, and the green chile sauce that I bought from Wegman’s passed my test. It was made with minimal ingredients and they were all whole, real ingredients that I would have used at home.

Summer Cooking Inspiration – Herbed Zucchini Noodles with Grilled Shrimp and Tomatoes

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In an effort to share more of what we love and what we cook, here is the first in hopefully a little series of summer cooking inspiration posts.

These posts will serve as just that – inspiration. I won’t have exact recipes of what we made – I will just share photos of the process and notes of what we did in hopes that it inspires you to cook something that makes you happy.

This one was a perfect summertime meal – zucchini noodles with grilled shrimp and tomatoes. We cooked this meal on our charcoal grill and enjoyed every moment of a perfect not-quite-summer evening.

Here’s what we did:

Zucchini noodles:
We spiralized 3 large zucchinis and tossed them generously with olive oil, salt and pepper. We actually cooked these on the grill, in our vegetable grate, and it worked so well. We cooked them, tossing often, for about ten minutes. Right before we pulled them off the grill, we added minced garlic and freshly chopped herbs. We used herbs from our garden – basil and rosemary. Once off the grill, we mixed in fresh lemon juice.

Shrimp and tomatoes:
We skewered the shrimp and tomatoes separately. To season, we mixed minced garlic, salt, pepper, olive oil and a ton of fresh lemon zest. We brushed this on both the tomatoes and shrimp before going onto the grill, and then again once we flipped them on the grill. We cooked the tomatoes until the were slightly blistered, and they were just perfect in this dish.

The dinner:
For putting the meal together, we just topped the zucchini noodles with the grilled shrimp and tomatoes. We didn’t do this, but thought that it would also be great topped with a bit of fresh Parmesan cheese.

One thing we would change next time is adding a bit more seasoning to the zucchini noodles. We’d probably add more salt, pepper and herbs, lemon juice and maybe a pinch of red pepper flakes. 

Our favorite part of the meal was the marinade/seasoning mix we made for the shrimp and tomatoes. The combo of olive oil, minced garlic, lemon zest, salt and pepper was so, so delicious and the flavor really came through nicely in the dish. We will be making that again to put on many things. I think the key was using a lot of lemon zest – I used the zest from one large and thoroughly zested lemon.

Take a look:

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Nourishment Lately 3.23.18

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{Florida, 3/19/18, take me back!}

Here are a few things that have been nourishing me lately.

Terrible, Thanks for Asking. I have been on a podcast kick lately, (thanks, Greg! :)) and I am LOVING this podcast. I love hearing stories about people’s lives – and this podcast is basically that. I love that there is always something that you can take away from what you hear and that the podcasts provide such inspiration of thought and conversation. (I listen to podcasts through CastBox on my phone).

Perfect Bar. I’ve been seeing these bars on social media and decided to try one when I saw them in the store and oh my goodness, they are so delicious! And filling, and everything that I want in a store-bought granola bar. I will be buying more of these.

Morning exercise! When it comes to what time of day to exercise I feel like I’ve tried it all. Right now, for my schedule, I am LOVING morning exercise, specifically cardio. It’s sometimes a struggle to get myself out of bed that much earlier, but once I am up and do it, I feel so much better for the rest of the day – and it’s that awesome feeling that continues to motivate me to get up and do it. I feel so much more content sitting at my job all day when I know that I’ve moved in the morning. I have been doing a couple miles on the treadmill most mornings and doing yoga on the mornings that I feel I need a break.

I’ve been on a serious kick with several products that I’ve mentioned in previous nourishment lately posts, but feel are worthy of quickly sharing again! Obsessed right now with Siggi’s yogurt, Bota Box Wine, and GT’S Living Foods Trilogy kombucha. — those three things give me life right now 🙂 🙂

Everything in this post is basically my life right now! I don’t have much to share food-wise because I have not been trying too many new recipes lately. For dinners, we have been making something from Farmstead Butcher – usually a very simple preparation – with veggies. And breakfast has been Siggi’s with fruit and granola. That being said, do you have any recipes you have been loving? Or anything that I should try? Let me know in the comments!

Nourishment Lately 2.22.18

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I sat down to type a nourishment lately post and realized that so much has changed since I last shared. I’ll keep a long story short, but after not eating meat for years, I am eating meat again (ahhhh!!!). Greg and I have changed the way we eat in the last few months and while we’re still consuming lots of plants, we are both now regularly eating animal protein too. Other than that, we’re still focused on eating whole, real foods. One of the main reasons I stopped eating meat was because of factory farming, so it has been important to me that the meat we consume is raised locally, humanely and naturally. Among other things, eating meat has reinforced my appreciation of food and nourishment, and I’m surely grateful for that. So, that all being said – I so badly want to get back into blogging a little more regularly and if I do, don’t be surprised if things seem a bit different food-wise. 😊 I do hope to be posting here more often, and while I’m not sure what that is going to look like, I hope to share more of what makes me happy and what nourishes me.

For now, what has been nourishing me lately:

Farmstead Butcher. I’ll start off with the amazing place where we have been getting our meat! We have been loving Farmstead Buther and would highly recommend it to anyone in the Gettysburg area!

Bota Box Wine. Can’t hide my love of wine and this one has been nourishing me greatly lately. 🙂

NYT Cooking. I have been needing to use recipes more than ever and while NYT Cooking has been a go-to for me for years, I have been loving what I am getting from them lately. 

GT’S Living Foods Trilogy kombucha. This has been life for me lately, and Greg too! We started drinking this a few months ago and now I can’t seem to go a day without it. I have a glass a day – before breakfast, and it makes me so happy :).

I’d love to know – what has been nourishing you lately?

Nourishment Lately 11.2.17

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I’m back for a Nourishment Lately – which has become one of my favorite blog things, even if it is infrequently that I post. I just love the idea of nourishment, I’m always thinking about what nourishes me, and I find it so important to share! I’m realizing right now that enjoying things that nourish me is going to be so very important as we enter this next season of cold weather and little light, as I thrive on sunshine and being outside as much as possible. So, with that, I’d like to share with you some things that have been nourishing me lately, so that maybe they can nourish you, too!

Yoga with Adriene’s Movement Medicine – Energy Practice. I’ve shared my love of Yoga with Adriene before, and this won’t be the last time, but this practice has been LIFE for me for a few months now. When we first got Forest (our puppy) I found myself not doing much yoga and missing it a whole lot. So I decided to change that and I now get up early and do yoga before work and this practice is just what I need(ed).

Dreaming Tree Cabernet Sauvignon. I don’t know that I’ve ever shared an alcoholic beverage in my Nourishment Lately posts, but this wine is definitely a worthy first. It’s not the cheapest bottle of wine that I buy (I buy cheap wine) but I love getting this on occasion. This wine + Yoga with Adriene = medicine. 

Jeopardy. Anyone who knows me knows that I am so, so so not into TV. But one of my mantras lately has been ‘small joys = big deal.’ And as silly as it sounds, I’ve got to be honest with ya – that has been Jeopardy for me. I can’t explain it, but watching Jeopardy makes me so happy lately. The message here: find your Jeopardy and roll with it.

Siggi’s yogurt. Just like I’m not a TV person, I’m not a yogurt person, except for apparently, now I am. I have been OBSESSED with this Siggi’s yogurt lately. I get the 4% mixed berry and have been eating one every single day. A siggi’s a day = one happy girl. It’s even better topped with fruit + granola.

National Geographic magazine. Greg got a free subscription to National Geographic magazine a few months ago and I’ve started reading them, sometimes with breakfast and sometimes before bed, and never have I ever come across a magazine with such amazing content! Greg and I both are reading the magazines cover to cover. It always seems like I get a magazine and am interested in one article, but not with Nat Geo. Again – small joys = big deal!

Other things that have been nourishing me lately, but I don’t have specific links for: hot coffee, homemade bread, butternut squash anything and any and all soup.

I would love to know – what has been nourishing you lately??

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