Sweet Potato Chipotle Soup/Submarine

I have a better camera this week! And a more accessible movie!

Not terribly uplifting, but accessible

It was raining on Thursday. And Wednesday. And a little on Friday. I know I'm not the only one that craves soup when it is raining outside. On top of that, this soup has a kick to it, so it gives you a nice warm feeling in your belly. It's also super healthy, so that's another +1. It's also also really easy and is done in about a half hour. I recommend you eat it with a nice loaf of bread for dipping.

Recipe: Sweet Potato Chipotle Soup

Sweet Potato and Quinoa Chili/Martha Marcy May Marlene

I'm kind of slacking on this one. Typically I make a recipe that goes along with the film, but I really am struggling to come up with a connection here. If you can think of anything, I can always go back and edit the entry, but for now it's just going to be a deeeeeliciously healthy vegan chili and a crazy dark alliterative movie about a cult.

this was one of the images that came up when i searched for alliterations. i like alliterations. i am an alliteration.

Recipe: Sweet Potato and Quinoa Chili

Sweet Potato Burritos/The Magnificent Seven

Hoping to get back on track here. I couldn't decide whether to post the sweet potato burritos or the vegan chorizo soup I made. I think I took a better picture of the burrito so that's what made it.

The holidays have kind of taken over my life, but hopefully this will be the start of the regular posts again. This weekend I will have a post from my home state, Michigan!

I used a soy chorizo "sausage" that I got from the local grocery store here. I only used half of the package because I wanted more of a flavoring than chunks of fake meat. You can use a full package, the real stuff, whatever you want! If you're looking for a good soy substitute, the Trader Joe's brand is my faaavorite. It's also inexpensive and much healthier than it's meaty counterpart.

I also really like spicy things so I used two jalapenos, with seeds. To take it down a notch you can de-seed, use one, or completely omit the peppers. It's up to you!

The burritos have lots of strange things in them because that's what I had. I'm not really aiming for authenticity here.

I served this alongside some Boston lettuce and broccoli salad with pickled watermelon radishes. The radishes were beautiful. To pickle, just combine some rice vinegar and sugar and soak the radishes and an onion in a jar overnight. The color is really something.

They're cute and look like watermelons!

 Anyways, back to those BURRITOS.

Recipe: Sweet Potato Black Bean Chorizo Burritos

Elmo's Sweet Potato Biscuits/Being Elmo

Every soup needs a bread! And I had a lot of sweet potatoes. I'm not a huge fan of the sweet potatoes covered in butter and brown sugar, so once I came across the recipe for these biscuits, I knew I had to make them. I also appreciated that there was no butter; just a bit of olive oil as the fat. As much as I love the pockets of butter in my baked goods, I would rather not eat that every day. Also, the were super easy, and come from a Sesame Street cookbook. I got the original recipe from here - unfortunately I do not own said cookbook.

The biscuits were DELICIOUS with the everything-soup I made last week. Lunchtime was very exciting. They turned out to be a cross between a biscuit and cornbread, but that worked for me because cornbread is awesome.

Eat them with some SOUP

Recipe: Elmo's Sweet Potato Biscuits