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Spring + Lilacs = Micro Farm

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Spring=Micro Farm

Spring please come . . . I want to go to work at Happy Hippy Farms.  My very own organic micro farm! 

Lilacs Blooming

Did you know that once the lilacs bloom there is almost zero chance for a frost?  That’s what my daddy told me when I was a little girl and it stuck.  He told me that I could start planting when I could cut lilacs and put them in a mason jar.  He was a simple man who saw the beauty in nature.  I still pick lilacs and put them in my favorite hand thrown mug.  I add hosta leaves to make a beautiful arrangement.  

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Be Blessed as you open up to the possibilities of eating and living with L.O.V.E.!

PS.  Foolproof Tips to Eating more plants is a article I wrote.  It has loads of ideas on how-to eat “a ding dang salad.”

Sandhill Farms CSA Share (11/11/14)

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My Silly CSA Share Video

In this very silly video I share the contents of my Sandhill Farms CSA share.  

The videographer was a bit silly and laughing while filming so it moves around a bit.  I’m sort of unapologetic about the videos–they are what they are and I’m just a crazy vegan lady eating a bunch of veggies!  I am happy!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Be Blessed!

Eat with L.O.V.E.

Vegan Crockpot Sweet Potatoes

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I love sweet potatoes!  
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I love the color–I painted my previous kitchen the color of sweet potatoes–a rich, warm, earthy tone.  I love how the plant grows into a flowing vine.  I’ve written about growing sweet potatoes.  I love the texture and versitility, here is my awesome sweet potato muffin recipe!  (you can usually substitute sweet potato in a recipe that calls for pumpkin–a healthy switch.)

 

Crock Pot, Bake, Roast 

This particular recipe I used the crockpot primarily because it didn’t matter how much the sweet potatoes cooked and I needed the oven for other baking.  If they were undercooked I could add more time and if they were a little mushy than I had less to do when I mashed them.  How I cook the sweet potatoes depends on how I want to serve them:

Roasted:  for my incredible roasted sweet potato summer salad!  I took pictures and put it on Instagram and it is on my FB Renee’s Kitchen Page.  (I post my life in food . . . )

Baked:  I bake my sweet potatoes wit the skin on then I usually stuff them.  This is a fun recipe/video that shows how I did it.

Boiled:  my least favorite way to cook but it is quick.  In my opinion when I boil sweet potatoes the depth of the flavor is lost. 

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I searched the web and found this great website for nutritional values.  Here is the sweet potato nutritional information.  What I really like about this site is the visuals–I can see at a glance a wide variety of values.

 

 

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We eat sweet potatoes just as a side dish.  But you could:IMG_3593

  • add a little broth to make a sauce
  • add beans and make potato pancakes
  • use for ravioli filling
  • layer with regular mashed potatoes–it looks really pretty in a glass pan
  • thicken red sauce or chili
  • use as a dip with pita chips

11 more ideas!

Check out this post on 11 ways to prepare sweet potatoes!  

An old wives tale is that sweet potatoes increase fertility . . .

you do with that info what you want!  (and that is eating the sweet potatoes not wearing them or rubbing mashes sweet potatoes on your body . . . although they are so high in Vitamin A–it might make your skin look great.)

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L.O.V.E.,

Renee