Whole 30 Sweet Potato Pancakes

I realized I totally forgot to show you all the loot from Cabot Cheese and King Arthur Flour in yesterday’s post!

Veronica – that Sift magazine is glorious – as soon as I am done with it I’ll have to get your address and send it to you – you bake more than anyone else I know and I know how much you love King Arthur products.

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Earlier this week I had on my breakfast menu sweet potato pancakes, but for the life of me I could not find the sweet potato that I bought.  I even checked my grocery receipt, and sure enough, I bought one.  Then last night as I was pulling veggies out for dinner, realized it was in a veggie bag that was in the fridge.  Doh.

Since I was just making two pancakes for my breakfast, this is all I used:

 They were crispy on the outside, yet kind of tender and creamy on the inside if that makes sense.  Although after I took this picture, I needed a bit more contrast to the sweetness of the sweet potato, and scooped over some of my salsa verde over the top and that was the perfect sweet/heat balance I needed.

It was kind of cloudy and looked like rain when it was time to go for my walk.  I got a new fall coat at Goodwill last week – it looks brand new.  It has a hood and it’s got a removable fleece lining – only $4.99!  I brought it with just in case, and it started drizzling about 5 minutes away from my office, but I decided I wouldn’t melt, and a couple minutes later it stopped.  Kym, you know I had to add some fall colors for you!  The geese didn’t really give a shit about me walking down the street – didn’t even pick up their pace.

Lunch was basically the night before lasts chicken carnita salad turned into chicken and veggie lettuce wraps.  Although logistically after one bite of trying to eat these wraps like a taco, proved very difficult and the whole thing basically fell out of my mouth back onto the plate.  Klassy.  So I ended up chopping it up into a salad.  And this jalapeno wasn’t hot at all – I ended up cutting up a whole on and throwing it on top.

It’s awesome that when I said I was doing Whole 30 I’ve had people email me links, text me recipes, instant message on Facebook.  Love.  Julianne sent me a link for the cauliflower fried rice and it was too funny because when I saw the message when I woke up this morning I told her that it was actually on my menu for dinner that night!  And I saw that my friend Helen had posted the Buzzfeed video on Facebook the other day too.

Let me just tell you when I suggested that I was making cauliflower fried rice for all of us, I think Hannah and Jacob were reaching for their phones to order Domino’s.  I assured them that I would make them regular rice, and I did.  I used this recipe for the “soy sauce” and while it was flavorful, obviously didn’t have the punch that soy sauce has.  And I missed my beloved sriracha.  The second ingredient in sriracha?  SUGAR!

The verdict? It was just okay.  I couldn’t think of any other seasoning that I could put on it that was Whole 30 friendly.  Every bottled sauce I had, had sugar in it.  And I think it was a texture thing too.  Maybe I pulsed the cauliflower too much?  I don’t know – but I know I won’t be making that again.  Unless I can add udon noodles or rice to it.

So I thought I’d put together a quick “before” video of the progress of the house so you will get a chance to see the difference between where I am and hopefully where I will be in a couple weeks.  All I know is I am ready to get this half of the house done so we can actually use it.  I am sure I’ve said that sentence in at least a dozen previous blog posts, but it’s still true today.  You can check out the video here.

I am having dinner out with my Momma tonight!  I had to squeeze in time with her somehow because the next couple weekends are super busy for her and then she heads to Austin to visit my brother.  Otherwise I wouldn’t see her probably until November!  This will be a test.  We are going to a place that not only is known for their wine, but they have amazing flatbreads on their appetizer menu, not that I would know anything about wine or flatbread pizza.

But I have a plan.  Since I won’t be spending any money on my wine (sad face) I’ll be able to splurge on my beef – I plan on subbing out the Parmesan fries (weep!) for a plain baked potato, and having my beef with seasonal veggies and sautéed mushrooms.   And I can watch my Mom enjoy a glass of wine.  You know, because I am her favorite child and all, I just want my Momma to be happy.

So we now have made it all the way to Day 5 of Whole 30 and so far so good.  They said not to weigh yourself before or take any before pictures, but I have my WI from a week and a half before and a before picture from a couple weeks before I started, so we’ll see what the comparison is at the end of 30 days.  I also can’t weigh myself at all these 30 days which will be hard for me, but that’s part of the whole process of this Whole 30 – to get your mind off of the number on the scale and just eat real food.  (but I do miss my hazelnut coffee creamer – sorry Jody!)

Have a great weekend – my floors are starting to get installed on MONDAY!  Eek!