If I were you, I’d put cheese in these. Not that these don’t taste delicious without cheese, but cheese is delicious. Especially the cheddar kind. When I’m feeling real frisky, I’ll get my favorite kind of cheese from Whole Foods: seaside cheddar. I could live off of that stuff. Seriously. I eat it until my taste buds hurt. That’s not healthy, but I don’t care, it tastes that good.
I wish these tasted like cresent rolls. Those things are stupid. Just stupid delicious.
Speaking of things hurting, my face hurts. No, not because of acne, I’m used to that by now. But because I’m scowling ALL.THE.TIME. My manuscript for my cookbook was due yesterday and I haven’t stopped typing or staring at a computer screen for days. I’m going to have to get botox between my eyebrows. Damnit. Hope the wrinkles are worth it.
So I have some exciting announcements! First, guess what I get to be part of this year?! The second annual PaleoFX Symposium in Austin, TX, March 28-30,2013. There’s going to be some incredibly influential people there including Sarah Fragoso, Kelly Starrett, Mat Lalonde, and Diane Sanfilippo.
The symposium will focus on not only nutrition, but strength, conditioning, and natural movement. Pretty cool huh? So if you want to see me speak and cook go buy a ticket right now! Or check out their facebook page to find out more about it! Why wouldn’t you want to go to Austin?? I’ve never been and I can’t hardly wait! They say Austin is like the Boulder of CO. I don’t really love Boulder, but I see where people are going with this. And I dig it.
Now for the second! This Saturday from 2-4pm, I’ll be doing a presentation and cooking demo for CrossFit Thin Air at Brickhouse40 . I’ll be chatting all about healthy holiday eating and cooking up some Thanksgiving recipes for any one who comes to join. That means if YOU want to join, YOU CAN! How exciting is that?! And it’s only $10!! So if you’re anywhere near Granby, you should come. I’ll be loud and obnoxious as usual. Sign up here!
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Thanksgiving Side Dish: Bacon and Chive Sweet Potato Biscuits
- Yield: 12 1x
Ingredients
- 1 large sweet potato or yam (equivalent to 2 cups mashed)
- 3 tablespoons Coconut Flour
- 3 eggs, whisked
- 6–8 strips of bacon, diced
- leftover rendered fat from bacon
- 3–4 tablespoons chives, thinly diced
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
- salt and pepper, to taste
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 415 degrees.
- Pork holes in your sweet potato with a fork.
- Place in oven and bake for 30-40 or until soft.
- Once the sweet potato is done baking, turn oven down to 375 degrees.
- When you sweet potato is almost done cooking, place your diced bacon into a skillet and brown until crispy. Then place your cooked, crispy bacon on a plate covered with a paper towel to soak up the excess fat. The fat that is left behind in the pan, you will use in your biscuits.
- When your sweet potato is done, peel and place in a bowl and mash with a fork.
- Then add in your eggs and mix well with your sweet potato. Then add your in your bacon fat and mix well.
- Then your dry ingredients: coconut flour, baking powder, garlic powder, and salt and pepper.
- Finally add your diced cooked bacon and chives. Mix thoroughly
- Now line a baking sheet with parchment paper and use a large spoon to drop your biscuits on the sheet, shaping them as needed. Try to make them all equal in size so they cook the same.
- Place in oven and bake for 22-27 minutes.
- Let rest.
- Top with some melted grass fed butter. You don’t have to, since it’s not paleo, but I did it, and it was delicious. Trust me.
Notes
If you don’t use bacon/bacon fat, add 1/4 cup of coconut oil, melted.
These are wicked ridonkulous. That’s all. *made recipe as stated, no cheese, used bacon fat….holy crap, so good.
Help please! The bottoms burned and the tops get burnt edges also. On the second batch I tried covering with foil, but that didnt help. Ireally want to make these for work party, any ideas what I can do?
I have no clue why that would be happening, but you may need a bit more coconut flour to make sure it cooks evenly
Mine were a little clammy(?) this morning, from putting the lid on too soon, so I threw them in the broiler for 5+ min and it was like fresh baked. Super yummy!
oops, stars!
Tested this recipe last night in preparation for Thanksgiving with my non-paleo family. My self-proclaimed sweet-potato-hating boyfriend ate two bites just to humor me, then said “hey, these are good” and ended up eating two whole biscuits! (I made half with Kerrygold Cheddar and half without). I like them better with cheese. I made one recipe, spooned half of them out, then mixed about a half cup shredded cheddar in with the remaining batter. I also used a cup of almond flour instead of the coconut flour. My potato was quite big and my bacon seemed to make a lot of grease. They were quite wet and spread out a bit more than those in your pictures – they almost looked like cookies! Yum, savory bacon cookies!
My boyfriend has asked me to make them with white potatoes for the Thanksgiving meal because even though he couldn’t taste the sweet potatoes, he’s still grossed out by the very idea that he ate them. I can’t imagine the recipe will come out vastly different, but I can report back if anyone is interested!
Four stars instead of five because it took me WAY longer than the time estimated to make them. Although… maybe that has more to do with my cooking ability than the recipe? All I know is that I was super-hungry by the time they were ready.
I made these for our Crossfit Thanksgiving feast and they were a huge hit! Very easy to make and delicious…thank you for this recipe!
HOLY CRAP THESE ARE REDONKULOUS!!! I did add sharp cheddar cheese, but I’m sure they are just as good without it. I can’t get my husband to ever eat sweet potatoes and he devoured 4 of these!
I made these earlier this week to accompany the honey ginger apple crock pot dish- awesome. Then this morning, I heated 2 of them up, threw on a piece of havarti and topped with 2 sunny side up eggs. Holy sh*t it was awesome.
Making a second batch! I am not a baker but figured I would try.
I realized I didn’t have almond flour so I subsituted it for almond meal. They probably weren’t as fluffy, but still incredible! A bit runny and more like a cookie but amazing!
Julie– ABSOLUTELY AMAZING! I am introducing my family to Paleo cooking this Thanksgiving and so far these biscuits have been truly a hit! Thank you so much!
I dislike sweet potatoes, never had them growing up, so I’ve not been a big fan, but I wanted biscuits for Thanksgiving. Gotta agree with the other people, deliciouuuus. I made it with black pepper bacon, and there were no chives to be found, so I used green onion. I did use about a half to 3/4 cup of cheese cheese, but couldn’t really taste it too much, but didn’t matter a bit.