Happy last day of the month!
This was a month of spectacular eats, so choosing a recipe to submit to Spicie Foodie’s Your Best Recipe was difficult! She rounded up a ton of great, international recipes – check out her site for the line up!
Ultimately I went with the Tempeh Crab-Free Cakes. They were so cool to make.
I’m crab-free!
Vegan-izing food is fun… even if you’re not vegan…
Other items I wanted to choose (click the pics for the recipes):
Chickpeas + Spiced Tomato Sauce
Egg-fin
Zucchini-Banana Muffins
Olive Basil Cookies
Mango-Cucumber Lentil Salad
Then there was the following tasty creation….
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I’ve made sweet potato shakes before. They were good. Delicious, in fact.
Like every other red-blooded female out there, chocolate is one of my favorite things to nosh on.
How is it that I never thought to combine the two tasty treats?!
Check out my new black border in the background!
Until now. *Insert evil cackle*
For this shake I used half of a Rich Dark Chocolate EAS drink.
I love these for a few reasons:
- Taste = good
- 17g protein
- 0g sugar
- 110 calories
That makes a perfect post-workout snack for me. I also like the Strawberry flavor, but only in shakes.
I threw out the coffee flavor after trying it. Not my cup of coffee tea.
Chocolate Sweet Potato Shake
- 1/4 large sweet potato (pre-baked)
- 1 scoop vanilla protein powder
- 1/2 dark chocolate EAS drink
- 1/2 C kale*
- 1/2 tsp cinnamon
- shake of salt
- ice + water, to taste
Throw it all in a blender and blend until well-mixed. Add straw and try to go drink it so fast you get an ice cream headache.
*Only 1/2 a cup because it was the Whole Food frozen variety. Fresh is less condensed, so you’ll want to add more. If green creeps you out, leave it out altogether!
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My boss just called. We’re meeting at a bar to watch the Brave’s opener. Have I mentioned I love my job?!
Anyone else excited for baseball season?!
Your recipes have my mouth watering! And I would never have thought to combine sweet potatoes and chocolate…very interesting…what does the combo taste like (remind you of)?!
It’s like dessert – the sweet potato makes this super creamy. Like sweet potato pie in a glass… but better because it’s in the form of chocolate shake!
How cool your boss is having you meet to watch the game! LOL
And I can’t believe I’ve never thought to do sweet potato and chocolate together either. Well, yes I can because I’m not too creative with food…but it does sound GREAT!
Hell yeah! I’m at Hand in Hand – come say hi. 🙂
You have to try it out – it will change your world.
that mango salad with lentils looks amazing I love mangoes!
I like veganizing stuff for fun too even though I’m not vegan either.
I’m jealous of your day watching the Braves games. I don’t even know – did they win?
Of course! Heyward repeated his first season by opening his second season with a homer at his first trip to the plate. This season is going to rock.
These meals looks to-die for!! holy yum!
Chocolate and sweet potato might be my two fav things! And combined..oh dear 🙂 heaven!