OMG I love girls nights. Meaning I love every night. I live with 2 other women, all of us are single, and we spend a good amount of time at home. Especially now that we just got patio furniture. We have this cute little back yard with a grill and now a table for 6. That means 3 more people can hang out with us. I wouldn’t mind if those were really good looking, intelligent, successful men who were passing by our house on the way to the park, just conveniently carrying homemade hamburger patties. Yep, that’s how I visualize my summer playing out.
It won’t happen. Let’s just face the truth right now.
But we will definitely have many girls nights on this patio. Just like the other night. It’s been extremely warm for Colorado in March so we’ve been spending more time outdoors. And invited some girlfriends over to consume copious amounts of food with us! Food loves company.
So Laura made burgers, Sarah brought wine, I made sweet potatoes and dessert, and Kristen and Steph just looked good. And set the table. No wait, Kristen brought pickles. She’s smart. So Laura stuffed some burgers with smoked gouda while I stuffed some sweet potatoes with a basil pesto and bacon. Holy balls they were delicious. I also treated those good lookin ladies to some caramel bars. I thought they were stupid fantastic, but they didn’t share quite as much excitement as I did. Silly women. This probably stems from the fact 3 of the 4 don’t eat paleo. Whatever. These bars tastes like caramel. Ha. Yes, I will post the recipe soon 🙂 gotta keep you wanting more! Look at our spread!
I can’t stop listening to this song or watching the video.
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Bacon Basil Twice Baked Sweet Potatoes
- Prep Time: 15 mins
- Cook Time: 45 mins
- Total Time: 1 hour
- Yield: 4-6 1x
Ingredients
- 3 medium sweet potatoes (go for the more round and plump ones)
- 5–6 strips uncured bacon, diced
- 1 cup fresh basil leaves
- 4–5 tablespoon olive oil
- 1/4 cup dry roasted almonds
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice
- salt and pepper, to taste
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 425 degrees.
- Using a fork, poke holes everywhere in your sweet potatoes. Place on a baking sheet and cook for around 25-35 minutes or until sweet potatoes are soft to the touch. (you want them cooked all the way through)
- While sweet potatoes are cooking, throw you diced bacon in a pan over medium heat and let cook through.
- Once the bacon is cooking, add your basil and almonds to a food processor, turn on and slowly add your olive oil. Once combined, add your lemon juice and a bit of salt and pepper to taste.
- When your bacon is done cooking, remove from heat but leave in the pan.
- After your sweet potatoes are done cooking, let cool for about 5 minutes then cut in half lengthwise and remove the insides, being sure not to tear away the skin. That could get messy.
- Place the insides in the pan with the bacon then add your basil pesto to the pan with bacon and sweet potatoes.
- Use a fork to mash the sweet potatoes while combining with the pesto and bacon.
- Now scoop sweet potato mixture back into the sweet potato skins and top with a bit of salt and pepper.
- Place back into the oven and cook for 8-10 minutes or until sweet potatoes have a tiny bit of char to them!
- Consume! Boom!
- Add the insides of the sweet potatoes directly
I wish I could have taken up one of those 3 empty chairs – your food looks amazing! And can I just say that I was so worried through that whole Beyonce video that her boobies were gonna fall out! Yikes!
I envy her boobs
I love the sweet potatoes going to try it!!! Also I have a handsome, single successful brother who lives in the Denver area. Just thought id throw that out their for you 🙂 just in case your looking 😉
Ummmmm YES PLEASE lol
Email me ill send you his pic…tell you a little about him. Ecmorgan@hotmail.com..
i think step 12 is missing “to your mouth” at the end of the sentence. effin YUM! i almost lost my appetite with that Beyonce vid. thank Gawd you posted pics of the food before that link or you might have lost me. looking forward to the caramel bar recipe!!!
DID YOU JUST SAY YOU LOST YOUR APPETITE FROM BEYONCE!?!?! Kim. We may have issues. I’m in love with beyonce
oh dear. wait. wait. WAIT. we both love bacon. win.
ok, thank god for that
This looks awesome, will have to try it very soon.
But.
But.
Sweet baby jesus, caramel bars? I’m dying here. Recipe!
tomorrow Christa, just you wait!
I love the swagger move at the beginning of the song… i may be attempting that soon
Oh sweet Travis Scott, how I’ve missed you! Attempt that dance move asap and send me a video!
Nice recipe dude, im thinking i might whip these bad boys up & add some somked paprika in there….booyakasha!
Oh yeah & some manly southwest paleo beef burger patties
Sounds like a fantastic idea!
If only I could look like Beyonce a few months after having a baby. If only I could look like Beyonce EVER!
Must actively consume more paleo yummies and it’s sure to happen right? Except maybe for the boobs…
Looks Delish Juli – thanks again! Can’t wait for the Caramel Bars.
Check out the site tomorrow!
Except she didn’t look like that just after having a baby ’cause this song has seemingly been around for ages. How did i miss that one?
Still want body and boobs….
I love her
Um, Where have you been all my life? Seriously, when I think “What’s for supper yo?” this is the first place I go. Next week is going to be good eats compliments of Paleomg!
Also, Holy Balls? My new favourite saying. Especially after wod 12.4 was posted last night. Holy Balls indeed.
YAY! Glad you like the recipes and my balls statements!
I’m convinced that you have some sort of crazy time warp oven. Every time I bake a sweet potato (i.e. when I’m making sweet potato brownies…weekly) it takes at least an hour to bake! I suppose this is the universe’s way of building my patience.
It may have something to do with the altitude difference. But I always thought you had to cook things longer the higher the altitude, so what the heck do I know?
Lol yeah i have no idea either!
Yeah I don’t know what that is about, maybe the size?