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Sweet Potato and Avocado Breakfast “Toast”

Sweet Potato and Avocado Breakfast “Toast”

This hearty and satisfying breakfast recipe will get your day off to a great start. Although it can be prepared in 30 minutes, you can save even more time on busy weekday mornings by roasting a large batch of sliced sweet potatoes ahead of time. Simply store the pre-cooked slices in the refrigerator in an airtight container, and then pop them under the broiler or in a toaster oven to warm through before serving.

Sweet Potato and Avocado Breakfast “Toast”

Ingredients

  • 1-2 medium sweet potatoes, sliced ¼” thick (8 slices total)
  • 2 Tablespoons extra virgin olive oil, divided
  • 8 large eggs
  • 2 ripe avocadoes
  • 1 medium tomato, seeded and diced
  • 1/2 cup fresh cilantro, chopped
  • 3 Tablespoon fresh lime juice
  • Sea salt and black pepper, to taste
  • Smoked paprika, for garnish (optional)

Directions

  1. Preheat oven to 425 degrees F and place a wire rack inside a large, rimmed baking sheet. Spray rack with non-stick cooking spray and set aside.
  2. While the oven is heating, mash the avocadoes in a medium bowl with a fork. Add tomatoes, cilantro, and lime juice. Season with salt and back pepper, to taste, and stir to combine. Set aside.
  3. Arrange the sweet potato slices on the prepared wire rack and place in the preheated oven for 15-20 minutes or until slices are fork-tender, turning once halfway through cooking. Remove from oven and set aside.
  4. While the sweet potato slices are cooking, heat half the olive oil in a large non-stick sauté pan over medium-low heat. Add 4 eggs and season with salt and black pepper, to taste.
  5. Cover the pan and cook until the whites are set and the yolks are done to the desired consistency, around 3-5 minutes. Remove lid and transfer eggs to a plate and keep warm. Repeat with the remaining 4 eggs.
  6. To serve, top each sweet potato slice with a spoonful of fresh guacamole and a warm sunny-side-up egg. Sprinkle with smoked paprika, if desired.

Carma's Cookery Creative Cooking Tips

  • Don’t like your eggs sunny side up? Try this recipe with your eggs over hard, scrambled or even poached.
  • Like your guacamole spicey? Add in some red pepper flakes.
  • Avocados not in season? Use store-bought guacamole. I’ve found that the frozen varieties often taste better than the refrigerated ones.
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Healthy Living

Getting Healthy: What You Can Eat To Improve Your Skin

Getting Healthy: What You Can Eat To Improve Your Skin

When it comes to your health, there are a few aspects of it that eating different foods can’t help. That is absolutely true when it comes to your skin. It’s the largest organ in your body, and it often tends to reflect the way that you feel on the inside. If you’ve been eating lots of processed food, you may find that you start to break out. If you haven’t been getting enough sleep, you may find that you start to look pale and drawn. But luckily there are things you can do and foods you can add to your diet to improve your skin, keeping it glowing and gorgeous.

Getting Healthy: What You Can Eat To Improve Your Skin

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Improve Your Skin with Avocados

Not only are they delicious – what’s better than smashed avocado on toast in the morning? – but avocados are also great for your skin. They contain a lot of healthy fats, which can improve the way that your skin looks by keeping it moisturized and flexible, meaning that you’ll be less likely to develop wrinkles and more like to have skin that looks full. Avocados also contain a lot of vitamin E, which is an antioxidant that helps protect your skin, and vitamin C, which your skin needs to create collagen. Without vitamin C, your skin will end up looking rough and dry. [/two_third]
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Improve Your Skin with Fatty Fish

There are few foods that are more generally good for you than fatty fish, or oily fish as it is sometimes known. Tuna, salmon, herring, and anchovies are all delicious – and great for your complexion. They contain a lot of omega-3 fatty acids, which will keep your skin looking glowing, supple and moisturized, along with reducing redness and acne by bringing down the inflammation in your skin. It also contains a lot of protein, which maintains the strength of your skin, and zinc, which along with fatty acids can reduce inflammation, as well as aiding the formation of new skin cells, meaning that any scratches or cuts will heal much more quickly. [/two_third]
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Improve Your Skin with Sweet Potatoes

There are few comfort foods that are better than a baked sweet potato in the winter. Cut open the crispy skin, add some butter, and enjoy – and remember that it’s doing your skin a lot of good. Sweet potatoes are an excellent source of beta-carotene, along with other foods like spinach and oranges. Beta-carotene converts to vitamin A in your body and which can help protect your skin from the sun, meaning that if you eat plenty of sweet potato and spinach, you will be less likely to get wrinkles and sunburn from the sun when you go outside. Make sure you wear sunscreen all year round, just in case! [/two_third]
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Talk To Your Doctor

Don’t forget that it’s still important to make sure you speak to your doctor about any skin complaints that you may have. Websites like Inspire can help you work out any medications that might help you for skin conditions like acne and psoriasis, and the doctor will be able to talk it over with you and prescribe medication or creams that might be useful.

You don’t have to spend hundreds on face creams to get clear skin – explore the possibilities in your diet first!

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Take Charge of Your Health!

Changing your eating habits can be tough. But it doesn’t have to be if you take a little time to think it out and create a plan.

This Healthy Eating Worksheet will walk you through the process of creating a healthy eating plan. All you need to do is print it out, set aside some time to complete it, and then fill it out. Then you can create your plan, knowing that you have addressed potential obstacles and came up with some creative ways to handle them.

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Recipes

Sweet Potato and Peanut Butter Soup

Yam and Peanut Butter Soup

This soup is great for cool days. It is smooth and creamy and combines two of my favorite foods: Sweet Potatoes and peanut butter.

Sweet Potato and Peanut Butter Soup

Ingredients

  • 2 10-12 oz sweet potatoes, scrubbed
  • 1 lg onion, chopped
  • 1 Tbsp olive oil
  • 1/2 cup creamy peanut butter
  • 4 cups chicken or vegetable broth
  • 1/4 tsp curry powder
  • 1/4 tsp onion powder
  • 1/4 tsp garlic powder
  • Chopped roasted peanuts (optional)

Directions

  1. Prepare sweet potatoes:
    • Heat oven to 375 degrees.
    • Pierce sweet potatoes with fork.
    • Bake until tender, about 50 minutes.
    • When cool enough to handle, peel.
    • Mash sweet potatoes.
  2. Prepare soup base:
    • Saute onion in oil in large saucepan over medium-low heat, stirring, until translucent. About 10 to 11 minutes.
  3. Prepare soup:
    • In a large blender, combine sweet potatoes, onion, peanut butter, broth and spices.
    • Blend until smooth.
    • Return soup to saucepan.
    • Simmer over low heat, stirring occasionally, about 45 minutes
    • Season to taste with salt, pepper and additional spices listed above.
  4. Serve soup:
    • Makes about eight servings.
    • Garnish with chopped nuts.
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Creative Cookery Recipes

3 Favorite Fall Vegetables

Fall vegetables

Buying seasonal produce is a good choice for staying healthy and fall is the time to start enjoying more vegetables. Autumn is the time of year for hearty meals that warm up your body, such as soups, stews, and casseroles, all of which taste their best with more vegetables. Not sure which fall vegetables you’ll enjoy? You might be surprised. Here are some fall produce favorites you can enjoy.

Fall vegetables

Carrots

carrotsCarrots are sometimes referred to as a spring vegetable, though they are often available in the fall as well. They also go great with many of your favorite fall recipes such as soup, stew, and casseroles.

You can even eat them raw, adding carrots to your salads or just enjoying them as a snack with ranch or hummus dip.

Roasting carrots is another great option, which just requires a little olive oil, your favorite seasonings, and an oven.

Roasted Carrots

Ingredients

  • 12 Carrots
  • 3 Tbsp olive oil
  • 2 Tbsp (total) dried herbs of your choice, such as oregano, thyme, sage, margoram. (An herb blend such as Italian Herbs works well, too.)
  • Pinch salt
  • Pinch black pepper

Directions

  1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.
  2. Skin carrots and slice into 1-2 inch peices.
  3. In a bowl, toss carrots with oil, herbs, salt and pepper.
  4. Spread out on a sheet pan and roast at for 20 minutes, until browned and tender.

Butternut Squash

butternut squashThere are a lot of different types of squashes that are popular in the fall, though you can’t go wrong with a nice butternut squash. It is low in fat and calories, has a lot of nutrients, and has a creamy texture that is perfect for soup.

In fact, it is commonly turned into butternut squash soup that you can serve on its own or with your choice of bread or crackers. A dollop of sour cream is nice, too.

You can also steam or roast the butternut squash and enjoy with butter, cheese, or pasta.
If you’re not sure what else butternut squash can be added to — try soups you’re making. Even if it doesn’t include them, but includes other vegetables. Cut up some squash and add it. You’ll be surprised what a treat this can be in the soup.

Because butternut squash and pumpkin are very similar in flavor and color, they an be interchanged without modification of the recipes.

Sweet Potatoes and Yams

sweet potatoe or yamDon’t forget about your sweet potatoes and yams! These are a sweeter and lower fat versions of white potatoes, as well as being lower in carbohydrates.

Sweet potatoes have so many different uses, from making a healthier French fries or mashed potatoes for frying them, roasting them and boiling them.

More Fall Vegetables

These fall vegetables are great to have but are by no means all the ones you should consider. Some other excellent fall vegetables to enjoy include broccoli, cauliflower, zucchini, acorn squash and pumpkin.

In fact, pumpkin can also replace certain ingredients in your baked dishes to make them lower fat, including cakes and cupcakes.

The great thing about these vegetables is the fact that all of them can be used as a vegetable for any of your dinners. So if you want to introduce them to your family that is one way to do it. Or you can find a recipe that highlights one of these fall vegetables and you’ll be hooked on using them. These fall vegetables work amazingly for either option.

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Slow Cooker Baked Sweet Potatoes

sweet potatoes

Your slow cooker can act as an additional oven, baking foods such as these sweet potatoes.

sweet potatoes

Ingredients

  • 3-5 sweet potatoes, scrubbed

Directions for Slow Cooker Baked Sweet Potatoes

  1. Wrap each sweet potato in aluminum foil and put into the slow cooker. You can stack them but try not to over stuff your crock.
  2. Cook on low for 7-8 hours or until your sweet potatoes are fork tender.

Serving Suggestions

Sweet potatoes can go sweet or savory, so why not let your guests decide how they’d like them and create a sweet potato bar? Here are some suggestions for toppings you can include:

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  • Cinnamon
  • Sugar
  • Chocolate chips
  • Whipped cream
  • Brown sugar
  • Pecans
  • Orange marmelade
  • Honey
  • Molasses
  • Whipped butter

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  • Sour cream
  • Ricotta cheese
  • Goat cheese
  • Shredded cheddar
  • Chopped green onions
  • Sliced olives
  • Bacon crumbles
  • Chopped tomoato
  • Chopped cilantro
  • Satay sauce

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