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

Bacon Chocolate Pecan Bars/Unforgiven

Sorry about this post being late! I was supposed to write it on Tuesday evening, but we got a surprise email from our landlord about the house being appraised. Soooo I guess it was time to get the couch out of the stairway that has been there for 3 months? Maybe?

It's more stuck than it looks.

After about 5 hours of sawing and putting holes in the wall, we gave up (it was midnight on a work evening). Guess where the couch is now...

I don't really want to talk about it.

Anyways, the post is late. SORRY GUYS.

Today's recipe is not healthy. I think you can probably guess that from the title. You really shouldn't eat these. As a matter of fact, you probably just shouldn't read this entry. Unless you want to make lots of friends friends. Or move up in your job. If you bring them to work you'll probably be promoted. That is, if they make it out of the house...

The recipe was concocted for a celebration of "Hamover" - a pork party. I wanted to make something special instead of your run of the mill pig dish. After some extensive searching, I found this recipe from this lady called The Beeroness. I love a good chocolate pecan pie, so I threw some dark chocolate in there as well. It was a good choice.

What do you do with the leftover bacon? Cover it in brown sugar, bake it, and call it "candied bacon". Duh. It melts in your mouth. Also a big hit at the sausage fest.

Recipe: Unforgivably Unhealthy Bacon Chocolate Beer Shortbread Pecan Bars