Let’s talk about some facts. 10 to be exact.
- I haven’t recovered from my trip yet. My feet still feel weird. Even after a foot massage. Guess I need more of those.
- I hate my voice. I just listened to myself on Paleo Parents: The Paleo View Podcast and I sound like a troll.
- World Market moved and is no longer a 2 minute drive from my house. It’s now 6 minutes. I’m furious.
- The website for preordering my book is acting up. And being a straight up b*tch. It may actually be pay pal, not the website. But let’s not name names. If you’ve ordered since December and gotten the confirmation, we’ve gotten your order and expect to begin mailing them at some point in March (one month early!). If you’ve tried to order recently and got an error message, please bear with us, and we’ll tell you again in a few weeks when pre-orders can be placed again. We will keep pre-ordering open up until the book is available on Amazon and elsewhere in late April this year. Thanks for your patience! I’m not exactly patient, so your patience calms me down.
- Not gonna lie, it took me about a month to figure out how to eject a disc out of my Mac. Seriously. And I figured it out on accident. I’m an idiot.
- I love girls nights. Watching The Bachelor with 4 other women, while we all gossip and eat, is awesome. Just a fact of life.
- 5280 Restaurant Week is coming up here in Colorado. You know what that means?! Wasting lots of money I don’t have at restaurants I could have never afforded before 5280 was invented. If you don’t know what that means, it means there is a huge list of restaurants you can choose from and get a 3 course meal for only $26.40. It’s pretty rad. But that kind of adds up. Pretty sure I haven’t reservations at 4 of these restaurants. #damnmylackofrestaurantselfcontrol
- Beyonce’s performance at the Super Bowl was by far my favorite thing of the entire month of February. I had no clue she was performing until the Super Bowl started, and then I was glued to the screen. They should have Beyonce perform every year, that way I would actually watch the game. Seriously though, I LOVE Beyonce. Like, I would LOVE to be her. I wish I were kidding. I really do.
- I have a stomach ache. I think my wine consumption is catching up to me.
- On a regular basis, I get annoyed with people’s ab pictures on instagram. We get it. You have an incredibly lean stomach. That’s great. But when I’m scrolling through my instagram follower’s pictures and am greeted by a bathroom pic after 13 beautiful food pictures, I’m instantly annoyed. If I wanted to see your abs, I would be sleeping with you. Just a fact, people. Please keep half naked pictures to yourself. Or sext it to a person you’re into. Duh.
That’s all I got for you. Mostly because I’m just day dreaming about what I have brewing in my crockpot for you guys tomorrow…just you wait!!
OMG I ALMOST FORGOT TO TELL YOU. I was incredibly excited to find out that I was voted ‘Best Treat Recipe-Online’ for my Sweet Potato Brownies, and ‘Top Rated Food-Centered Blog’ by Paleo Magazine. Thanks to all your amazing votes, I made it in the magazine!! Pretty cool. Hopefully my cookbooks can make it in the magazine next year! Fingers crossed!
Sweet Potato Chai Muffins
- Yield: 12 1x
Ingredients
Scale
- 1 large sweet potato or yam, cut in half lengthwise
- 1 banana, peeled
- 2 chai tea bags (no sugar added)
- 3 eggs
- 1/3 cup pecans
- 1/3 cup flax seed meal
- 1/3 cup coconut oil, melted
- 3 tablespoons coconut nectar (or other sweetener – add more if you want sweeter muffins)
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
- pinch of salt
- 3–4 tablespoons coconut sugar (to garnish muffins)
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 405 degrees. Cut sweet potato in half, place on baking sheet, and bake for 20-25 minutes, until super soft. Remove skin.
- Reduce oven temperature to 375 degrees.
- Place soft sweet potato and banana in the food processor and puree. Then add chai tea herbs from two bags (discarding the chai bags), pecans, flaxseed meal, baking soda and powder, and cinnamon. Puree until completely broken down and smooth.
- Then add the wet ingredients: coconut oil, eggs, coconut nectar, and vanilla extract.
- Puree until smooth.
- Line muffin tin with paper or silicone liners and use an ice cream scoop to scoop out and pour ingredients into each cup. The ice cream scoop keeps the muffins equal in size.
- Sprinkle each muffins with a bit of coconut sugar.
- Bake muffins for 25-30 minutes or until you poke them with a toothpick and it comes out clean.
- Let muffins cool before consuming, it helps the muffins meld together a bit more.
Notes
This made a little over 12 muffins.
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I’m a little confused on the chai packets as well…are you talking actual tea bags or some sort of powdered chai mix? Once this tiny confusion is cleared up, these are going in my oven ASAP.
yes tea bags, just cleared that up in the recipe 🙂
Re #5: When my girlfriend got her first Mac, it took us forever to figure out how to install a program…because we didn’t understand “drag the pictures together” instructions. Some text that said, “no, seriously, just click on the picture.” would have been helpful! yeesh.
I LOVED you on the podcast. You cracked me up.
I cannot wait to try these.
Congrats on the awards, that’s awesome!
You should try trader joes ruby chai! Best chai ever.
Did you use the basic boxed chai tea packets?! Thanks!
yes box tea packets
I’m coming to Denver at the end of the month for a girls weekend. If you had to pick your top three restaurants to visit for restaurant week, which would they be.
cubacuba, it’s one of my top favorite, and you can stay pretty paleo there. zengo, it’s stupid delicious. and i’m not sure, but i’m going to go with prime steakhouse just because i’m going there soon, mostly because they have flourless chocolate cake. want. hope that helps!
1. You are freakin hillarious! 2. I’m sick of people posting Ab pics of me acting like they are their own!! Just kidding. I also get annoyed. 3. Beyonce, surprise to me as well and I loved it! 4. Thanks for making me laugh daily!:)
These are just what the doctor ordered today!!
…and, Pay Pal did a royal job on me and I’ve given up. It was time to put in my newer credit card (the old one had expired) and when I bought something, things didn’t look right so I read all the fine print. Ends up they treated it like a debit card and not a credit card. Not knowing WTH would happen to (me) since I don’t have a debit card, I called them. # people later, and lots of time on the phone, they insisted that my bank had entered their code wrong and b/c it was the banks issue, they could do nothing whatsoever for me. I called my bank. Ends up, the way Pay Pal did it, it would have been considered a loan WITH INTEREST and, NO, the bank made NO MISTAKES. As proof to me, they had me check both my new and old card. Identical. So, not only did they screw up, they couldn’t fix the problem AND they blamed my bank. NO PAY PAL for me! Mistakes happen. Ignorance and lying about that ignorance is not what I care to deal with.
Yeah, a good vent is good sometimes 🙂
So, I am trying to figure out how to be a paleo-pescatarian, but I don’t like fish that much. It is going to be tough, but I think your site and recipes are going to be very helpful. So happy I found you!!!
I am going shopping so I can make these this weekend. Can’t wait to try them!!!
Can I sub extra sweet potato for the banana? Can’t have any fruit, but want to try these!
yes, i used a banana in the recipe so you could just use 2!
Great, thx!!