Ok ok I did it. I washed my hair. AND shaved my legs. I hated every second of it. Especially since it’s now freezing in Colorado. Shaving your legs + goosebumps, blows ass. It’s painful. It’s like constant razor burn throughout every swipe of the razor. But I’m trying, people. I’m trying!
Guess what I decided? This weekend is going to be good. Real good. You know why? Ok, so last night I went out shopping for a Halloween costume and found this awesome black sequin, open back dress. So it’s slutty, but not really because it goes down to my knees in length. I looked through a bunch of the Halloween costumes there, you know, the dirty nurse, dirty Hogwarts, dirty firewoman, but I can’t pull that stuff off. Nor do I want to. It’s freezing, and my ass barely fits into my spandex, let alone a dress that is suppose to cover only half my ass. Imagine how that outfit would look. I’ll help you out: not good.
But before I become a slightly skankified Audrey Hepburn, I’ll be attending an awesome fundraiser. My friend Clark who owns CrossFit South Denver will be hosting a Bears for Kids Charity Competition this Saturday October 27th from 12-4pm. It’s a pretty cool fundraiser, especially since 100% of the proceeds will go to the Denver Children’s Home. And in an attempt to raise even more money for the kids, for every $10 received in donations, Clark and I will do one burpee. Once the total donations are totaled, we will compete to see who can finish the burpees first. So what I’m pretty much is saying, you should come, hang out, work out, and do burpees. Come on, you know you wanna.
Oh and remember how I said the dress went down to my knees. I lied. I just tried it on. My ass took control once again with this dress. It’s real short. Ugh.
Is it pathetic I get goosebumps every time I see the commercials for the last Twilight movie? Wait, don’t answer that.
Crockpot Sweet Potato Basil Soup
- Yield: 3-4 1x
Ingredients
- 2 sweet potatoes or yams, diced
- 1/2 yellow onion, sliced
- 1 (14oz) can of coconut milk
- 1 cup vegetable broth
- 2 garlic cloves, minced
- 1 tablespoon dried basil
- salt and pepper, to taste
Instructions
- Place all ingredients in the crockpot.
- Mix around.
- Cook for 3 hours on high.
- Use a hand blender, blender, or food processor and puree mixture until smooth. My 9 cup food processor fit it all just perfectly.
- Eat up! If you have leftover meat, add it to your soup…obviously.
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I just made this with leftover sweet potatoes! I was making the Chocolate Chili from theclothesmakethegirl for supper and just cooked all the onions and garlic at once and split them between the sweet potato soup in the soup pot and the chili in the crockpot (by the recipes its the other way ’round, but I already had the potatoes roasted and I like my chili to simmer a loooong time). Because I can’t be trusted to follow a recipe, I added a few cups of very thinly sliced kale after pureeing and let it simmer for a little while and topped it a crumbled bacon garnish. Because bacon.
Update: kale definitely needed to be pureed a little too after simmering in the thoroughly pureed soup. Slices tend to clump up instead of distributing their veggie goodness throughout.
Could I use unsweetened coconut milk instead?
That should work
Mine is cooking in the crockpot now. Had to use rice milk as I am allergic to all treenuts, cocnuts and soy. I used a less since it is more watery. I will let you know how it turns out 🙂
Would using fresh basil be a bad idea?
Can’t wait to try this!
Nope!
What size sweet potatoes did you use?
medium
So… I think I now understand why your site is called PaleOMG. Because… OMG this was the best freaking soup ever. I know its a post from a year ago, but just had to comment. It’s fall here in New England and this is exactly what I needed for lunch to warm me up. Thanks so much for a wonderful recipe!
BRB while I go lick the bowl.
As a newbie to paleo I am just stunned at the deliciousness of this soup and beyond happy my husband is a picky eater so I don’t have to share!
I’ve made this recipe at least 20 times now and I love it!
I’m wondering what good proportions would be if I wanted to turn this into a sweet potato mash / mashed potatoes recipe instead but keep as much of the original flavor as possible… any suggestions?
Love this! I don’t typically do soups without meat, so I need some heartiness, and this was perfect. I used light coconut milk, a whole small onion, and water instead of broth (forgot broth at the grocery store). It was absolutely wonderful! Be warned that there isn’t a ton of food in the crockpot so he immersion blender sent things flying a bit…
Had anyone tried fresh basil in this recipe?