sweet potatoes

Baked Sweet Potato Fries With Mango Dipping Sauce

I’d like to share my super simple recipe for baked sweet potato fries with a mango dipping sauce. With almost no effort, you can create a very healthy side dish that will wow yourself, your kids and your guests. I never ate sweet potatoes before my first cooking lesson several months ago. Growing up my [...]
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Baked Tilapia With Sweet Potato Fries

Baked Tilapia with Sweet Potato Fries Recipe As I work on each recipe this month, I am trying to find two recipes that go perfectly together to create a full meal. This week I pulled two recipes that are tied together with their spice combinations. The oregano, chili powder and pepper make for an awesome [...]
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Lime-Seared Cod With Veggies Recipe

My nutritional goal this month is to find and make a recipe each week. The idea is to push me into trying new foods but also to create a database of recipes that I can pull from anytime instead of eating the same grilled chicken every night. My first recipe is a variation of the [...]
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Cinnamon Sweet Potato Recipe

During my first cooking lesson, we made a very simple sweet potato side dish. Below is the recipe – I am calling the dish, “Cin-fully Sweet Potato”. I have always been a white/russet potato person but this super simple sweet potato recipe has instantly converted me. Apparently sweet potatoes (or are they yams??) are a [...]
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Recap: My First Cooking Lesson

Today I had my first cooking lesson with Lisa. I bought everything this morning when I got back from San Antonio. I think this was the first time my Whole Foods shopping cart was completely full. It felt good to buy some new items that I have never tried before. Lisa is going to email [...]
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