SIDE DISH ALERT!! This is a side dish. Just FYI. I like side dishes. I just hate making them.
Sorry if you’re still having issues with my blog. I know I am. I’m getting a new host. Obviously my old one sucked huge ass. Soon all will be well and I won’t have this crap to complain about. Guess I’ll have to find something else. Oh, men. Duh.
Wanna know about some songs I’m really diggin’? No? Good. Let’s do this.
Mumford & Sons – I Will Wait (this song will never get old. mostly because the video is at one of my favorite places on earth)
Anywho, I recently started reading a new book. It’s called Beautiful Disaster. My friend Pilar from California told me to read it MONTHS ago and I finally got around to buying to book. A real book. I don’t have no fancy Kindle or anything cool like that. I’m the old school way. With the easy to tear pages that I can fold when I stop for bathroom breaks or do one of the 50 things I feel like doing in a day.
You see, I’m not really good at reading. Probably because I have ADD. Or is it ADHD? In any case, I’m easily distracted…as you can probably tell from reading my blog. I just don’t like concentrating on one task. So while I read, I tend to think about the 10 other things I should or could be doing. Then I forget about what I read. Then I have to go back and read it 3 more times. So you can imagine how long it takes me to read a book. Or how studying went for me throughout college years.
My friend even mentioned to me the other day how slow of a reader I am. What a d*ck!
But thankfully this book is a love story so I’m DIGGIN it. I freaking love love stories. I’ve told you before that I’m a hopeless romantic, so this book fulfills my love needs since mine are lackluster.
Spicy Baked Cauliflower and Sweet Potatoes
- Yield: 3-4 1x
Ingredients
- 1 head of cauliflower, stem and leaves removed, roughly chopped,
- 1 sweet potato, diced
- 1 yellow onion, diced
- 4 tablespoons fat of choice, melted (i used bacon fat)
- 1 tablespoon smoked paprika
- 2 teaspoons cayenne pepper
- 1 teaspoon dried oregano
- 1 teaspoon red pepper flakes
- salt and pepper, to taste
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
- Add all ingredients to a 9×13 glass baking dish. Mix well.
- Place in oven to cook for 30-35 minutes until sweet potatoes are tender.
- Eat up! Oh you so spicy!
Super delicious! Although my hubby and I made it without the sweet potatoes and with half of the cayenne and it was stll oh-so-spicy! (And we’re from Arizona. We eat spicy all of the time!) Next time we will include the sweet potatoes and/or go with less cayenne. Thanks for the great recipe! Love your stuff!
Thank you 😀
Delicious recipe, I’m currently eating left overs for breakfast right now. My mouth is on fire though. I might have to decrease the cayenne pepper next time. I added bacon and found the meal very satisfying. Thank so much for the recipe!
This side dish was INCREDIBLE. I was expecting it to be delicious, but THIS delicious? Thank you. Best side dish ever; until you top yourself. Likely.
Omnomnomnmmmyesssssss… This is wonderful. I didn’t put in any cayenne (because my british husband is the wimpiest of wimps) and yet with the paprika and s&p it was still delicious. Next time he’s gone though I’m breaking out the spicy shit. Bet on it.
This is kind of a silly question- but how do you get bacon fat? Or any other animal fat? Do you have cook it, then keep the left-over fat?? I’m new to this! HELP!!
so whenever i cook bacon, i pour the fat out into a jar and keep it in the fridge. but i buy duck fat at my specialty store
Loved it the first time and making it again tonight. Glad you posted a side dish because I have no idea what to ever make as a side, except the usual blasted potatoes. Making it to go along with the deer tenderloin that Dearheart harvested for us this year. Thanks for all you do!
This was a HIT. I didn’t make it spicy…I added 1/2 teaspoon of New Mexican chili powder instead of the cayenne. I made this on a cookie sheet hoping to get more of a “roast” and the veggies were still too crowded and ended up getting more of a “steam”…I cranked up the heat toward the end to get a little extra color. I think next time I might just roast it in two batches. We ate this with browned chicken apple sausage and then had leftovers for breakfast with a fried egg on top…MAN, was it good!
Love all the awesome benefits of this dish, I would leave out the fat, just to keep the dish a healthy and vegetarian:)
Wow! this is absolutely lush! Thank you for sharing and I can’t wait for the book. Is there lots of vegetarian options within it please? (“,) xxx