I don’t know why I said alert. It’s not like this is an exciting recipe that I must alert you about. It’s a very simple, lazy recipe to eat along with your huge slab of meat. I don’t make side dishes enough, mostly because I don’t eat them. I’d rather just eat a huge steak and call it good. It’s not that I don’t like vegetables, I just like protein more.
So last week, I taught my first cooking class! Never thought I’d ever do that. During the day, I was getting nervous about it, but as soon as it came around, I wasn’t nervous whatsoever. Mostly because all I was doing was talking, and talking about food, so why would I feel uncomfortable? The class was for MBS CrossFit who is in the middle of doing their 28 day paleo challenge. It was pretty awesome because everyone brought a side dish to eat while they waited for my dish. Some of my favorite dishes included a lime infused sweet potato puree and the other was a peach habanero chicken salad. I couldn’t stop eating both.
So in conclusion, I want to do cooking classes more often. So fun.
I’m so obsessed with this song right now. Mostly because the video was filmed at Red Rocks which is where I grew up working out. I love that place. That’s definitely in my top 5 favorite places on Earth. It doesn’t come close to Lake Powell, though.
Did you see the sneak peek of my photo shoot for my cookbook on instagram the other day? I’m so excited for the cookbook! It doesn’t come out until April, but finishing up little touches like this makes me get so anxious.
And to person(s) that keep breaking into my car and throwing sh*t around, you’re not very nice. I would wish bad things upon you, but that would be mean, and I don’t want to be like you. So I hope good things upon you so in turn, you will stop beating the crap out of my car. Selfish reasons mostly.
Side Dish Alert: Bacon Acorn Squash Patties
- Prep Time: 30 mins
- Cook Time: 10 mins
- Total Time: 40 minutes
- Yield: 3-6 1x
Ingredients
- 1 large acorn squash, cut in half, seeds removed
- 4–6 strips bacon, diced
- 2 eggs
- 2 tablespoons coconut flour
- salt and pepper, to taste
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
- Cut your squash in half and place your squash open side, face down on a baking sheet.
- Roast your squash for 25-30 minutes.
- Once your squash is soft when you poke its skin, remove it from the oven to cool.
- Then cook your bacon in a medium pan until cooked through, and place on a paper towel to soak up the excess fat.
- Reserve 2 tablespoons of bacon fat in your pan after your bacon in done cooking.
- Scoop out your acorn squash into a bowl and add your bacon, eggs, coconut flour, and salt and pepper. Mix thoroughly until eggs are broken up completely.
- Use a spoon to scoop out a large spoonful of mixture and add to your hot bacon fat pan.
- Cook each patty for 3-5 minutes then use a spatula to flip it over and press down and cook for another 3-5 minutes.
- You just want to create a crust on each side of the patty.
- Repeat.
- Serve with your favorite protein.
- Makes 4-8 patties.
They were delicious! Added some chili peppers to offset the sweetness a bit. Thanks so much..these will stay in rotation during the fall and winter from now on!
Can you tell me why each time I try to print these recipes which I think are really good – I end up printing everything you have written AND all of the comments after the recipe… I have tried every way to print only the recipe but have had no luck AND have run out of toner in my printer. Even when I re e-mail it to myself – I still get all 7 pages.
I couple other people can run into that issue as well but we can’t seem to figure out what the problem is!!!
Annie-
Maybe if you highlight just the recipe part you want to print, and then choose the dot for “SELECTION” when you print? I know that shouldn’t be necessary since it comes up in a new page, but it’s only a suggestion
Mel
Juli-
LOVE LOVE LOVE these. We have squash that needs cooking! PS, what is up the a-holes breaking into your car? Let’s stalk them and beat the snot out of them. Or throw gross food at them, like WHITE FLOUR. i can’t think of an adhesive that is not delicous. I could only think of eggs.
I love this picture of you. Gorg.
There have been several comments from the news media about a “global bacon shortage” going to have to try these quick!!
Could you give an approximate measure of how much squash this is, for those of us with small acorn squashes or butternut squash. I have a lot of butternut and “cheese pumpkin” right now. Would love to try this but don’t know how much squash to include. Great looking recipe!
That predicted bacon shortage is worrisome, though.
Its’ almost 2 cups worth!
Great! Thanks so much. Now to get cooking.
These look delicious!!! Can’t wait to make them!
Could I substitute the coconut flour with almond flour or something else? I cannot find coconut flour where I live.
Yes you could!! I would use about 2/3-1 cup of almond flour though. The two flours are very different
Shoot I prob used the same amount listed for coconut flour, when i used the almond flour. Still tastes good though. Almond flour is expensive!! lol
You can make your own coconut flour by using a clean coffee bean grinder. Just pulse it until it’s powdery. I have also made my own almond flour by putting whole roasted almonds in the food processor until they’re sort of powdery too. Be careful about the length of time you process the almonds because they’ll turn into almond butter if it goes too long. 🙂 Good luck!
I just made these…be sure to take the seed pulp out before you roast them….I added cayenne pepper and chopped scallions and they were soooooo good. thanks for the recipe…we loved them
These were a hit. My 8 yr old even liked them. I added garlic and lots more flour. Maybe my eggs were too big…
I just ate so many of these for breakfast, mmm. Awesome recipe, I used almond flour but probably will do coconut next time since they got really crumbly.