I get tired of people complaining about not knowing what to eat for breakfast. Actually, that’s not true. Because I just give them a simple answer: leftovers from the night before. I don’t see anything wrong with leftovers for breakfast. I’m usually excited to wake up the next morning, just so I can’t eat my leftovers. True fact. But I do sometimes make you breakfast ideas to ease you into your breakfast needs. And here is one. This recipe should be named “Crockpot baked sweet potatoes mixed with Dairy free pesto topped with fried eggs” but it’s just not that catchy. Or creative. Because I lack in those areas of my brain. So instead, I gave you an easy spin on breakfast. Or lunch. Or dinner. Or even a snack. The possibilities are endless here, people.
Story time!! So I was sitting on the toilet the other morning, whitening my teeth, while looking at Instagram. You know how we all have our secret habits we do at home. Well, that’s one of mine. Except it’s not a secret now. Darn. Don’t worry, I was only going pee. Swear. You don’t talk about the other thing on a blog. You lose readers that way. So as I sat there, I suddenly had to sneeze. And if you’ve ever used whitening strips before, you know that’s the last thing you want to happen. Those thin little strips will blow across the room and stick to the wall. So I tried to keep my mouth open while I sneezed. And instead of shooting my whitening strips onto the wall, I spit all over my arms. And phone. It’s like sneezing while driving. You want it to not happen so bad but you can’t do anything about it.
Since we touched upon pee, let’s go into it even more. My seat warmers in my car sometimes make me feel like I wet the seat. Anyone else think that? Anyone?
Alone, yet again.
So the other night, we had our weekly girls night. It involves us eating food out of a crockpot, eating snacks from whatever everyone else brought, and then eating dessert. And chocolates. My friend Kam always has a candy jar at her house. Not really a jar, a basket. Tha b*tch. We usually watch some kind of show in between shoving food in our face, but since the bachelor ended, we don’t really care about watching anything else. So we decided to start playing games. So we played Telestrations the other night. Ever played it? It’s awesome. I want to play it while slightly intoxicated, so a ladies margarita night may be in store. But if you haven’t played this game, here’s my explanation. It’s like the game telephone but with pictures. So you have to draw things and the person next to you has to guess what it is. And it goes around the circle and usually turns into something completely different. Especially when it comes to someone who lacks a bit of artistry. Let’s check out Laura’s drawing. Her clue was ‘finger food.’ So first think about how you would draw finger food, then look how her brain translated it onto paper.
Do you ever spend your nights staring at pages upon pages of food on pinterest? Me neither.
Easy Spin on Breakfast
Ingredients
- 1 sweet potato or yam, poked with a fork
- 2 eggs, cooked to preference
For the pesto
- ⅔ cup walnuts
- 1–1.5 cups fresh basil leaves
- 1 garlic clove, peeled
- ½ cup olive oil
- juice of ½ lemon
- salt and pepper, to taste
Instructions
- Poke holes in the sweet potato with a fork. Wrap the sweet potato in foil and place in a crockpot for 8 hours on low or 4 hours on high.
- Once the sweet potato is done cooking, remove from foil to let cool to the touch before removing the skin. Then mash the sweet potato with a fork.
- For the pesto, place walnuts in the food processor along with basil leaves and garlic clove, and pulse until the leaves break down. Then slowly add the olive oil while the food processor is still running. Lastly, add lemon juice and a bit of salt and pepper. Puree until smooth.
- Once the sweet potato is mashed and pesto is finished, mix 2-4 tablespoons of the pesto into the mashed sweet potato.
- To finish off the meal, cook up an egg however you like yours. I fried mine to over easy.
- Top egg on top of sweet potato pesto mash.
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Are you anti-microwave? I find the quicker and easier to make things paleo, the better. I always microwave my sweet potatoes – fork the potato, microwave for 5-6 minutes depending on the size. Perfection without heating up my oven or having to plan in advance to cook in the crock pot!
Can’t wait to try this recipe! Love EVERYTHING of yours that I make. (Took your Mexican Rice Bowl leftovers and put them in my scrambled eggs as they were cooking one morning! Topped with some salsa and a dollop of sour cream…DELICIOUS! Now thinking about it, putting that on a sweet potato would be amazing too!)
On the subject of the microwave, I’ve read numerous studies that indicate they are perfectly safe…but if you disagree, that’s fine! 🙂 To each their own. I’m one that lives by the clock and time is always of the essence!
I just like the taste of slow cooked sweet potato more but I’m not anti microwave at all 🙂
Y’all probably know thus, but just wanted to point out that one can cook the poked yam or sweetie in the microwave for ~6 minutes but it depends on the size, if it is really big you will want longer. I usually rinse it first for a little moisture so it steams a bit too. That is, if you have a microwave… I lived without one for 4 years. Also — consider how fun it is to take over the workplace microwave for 6 minutes cooking a sweet potato for lunch.
You made me laugh out loud and snort. Yes, I agree seat warmers can be a challenge, esp. if you don’t know they’re on.
OMG, sneezing with your mouth open is a challenge. One that not everyone can handle. It’s so awful when you can’t suppress it. ;-0
This breakfast sounds amazing. I concur, leftovers for breakfast is the way to go. My hubby thinks I’m strange, but why let delicious food go to waste because it’s not the *right* time to eat it.
I’ve never tried a whole sweet potato cooked in the crockpot.. great idea for prepping meals ahead time at the beginning of the work week!
it’s going to change you life!! they come out perfect!
I can’t eat leftovers for breakfast because what would I take to work for lunch???
more leftovers!
I never know what to make for breakfast because since going Paleo I am craving pancakes and waffles. I never really ate them before, but now that they are forbidden, I want them. I know there are Paleo recipes out there, but they are so involved. I’m with you about the leftovers. That’s so much easier to eat the paleo food you already have from dinner than to make a paleo pancake (:
P.S. Did you watch The Mindy Project last night?
uhhhhh duhhhh!
If you want pancakes you HAVE to try paleo banana pancakes. It’s super easy. I think the recipe I used was like this:
3 bananas
1/4 cup almond butter
3 eggs
blend in a blender or food processor and then pour onto a skillet like you normally would. Use butter or ghee or coconut oil for the pan. I always add blueberries by hand when the pancakes are cooking, but you can also just mix them in with the batter. When you start to see little bubbles in the pancake, flip over.
Once I started eating these, regular pancakes just don’t seem good anymore. These are so fresh tasting and just amazing. Top with other fruit/maple syrup/nut butter etc. pretty much anything you want! I’m sure Juli also has a recipe on here but that’s the one I got hooked on.
Juli,
You are so funny. I snort and laugh at most of your posts :). I come here to read your story more than the recipe ;).
Thanks for always sharing !!
I love new breakfast ideas, especially since most of our leftovers get sent with my husband to eat for lunch at work. And also it’s a psychological things, I like to wake up to breakfast-y food. Best meal of the day.
OHHH, This looks creative and delicious!
Hilarious. Thank you for the laugh. Oh, and the recipe.