I had three lovely sweet potatoes to use up, so last night I decided to make sweet potato open-faced sandwiches.
After chopping the sweet potatoes, I ‘basted’ them with coconut oil. I have been wanting to try this for a while now because I thought that the coconut and sweet potato tastes would blend well together. After basting, I sprinkled the fries with paprika and a tiny bit of fine grain sea salt.
I baked them in the oven at 350F for about 15 minutes on each side. I broiled them for another 5 minutes on med-low. Be sure to watch them very carefully on broil because the burn so fast!
While they were cooking I made a homemade ketchup consisting of organic tomato paste and some salt-free BBQ sauce. I continued along the ‘piping’ theme of the day and put it in a baggie so I could pipe it onto my open-faced sandwiches.
I also toasted up some flax bread:
Layered on the fries and then piped them with the homemade ketchup.
The result was simple yet magnificent.
Eric doesn’t like sweet potatoes, but he gobbled up this dinner. I like proving him wrong this week!
After I tried this, I said ‘OH wow. Sweet Potat-OH!’ Yup, I’m an odd one.
I couldn’t overtly taste the coconut oil on these fries, but I could definitely smell a hint of it. I think I put on too much though because the fries didn’t crisp up very much like they usually do. I would suggest not using more than 1/2 T of coconut oil to baste 3 sweet potatoes. I used 1 T and they were soaking a bit. ;)
Dessert:
A leftover Healthy Peanut Butter Coconut Swirl Pancake.
Dear God!!
I never thought I would see the day when a COLD, leftover pancake tasted brilliant right out of the fridge. I think I honestly might have liked it better COLD! The peanut butter and coconut/maple flavour was just bursting out of the pancake. This would make an awesome pre-run snack to. Just make a batch on Sunday and refrigerate them for the week. WOW!!!!!
Time to get back to work. I’m off to update Glo Bakery website and then try and figure out how to implement an online shopping cart + shipping tool. I want to cry! I don’t know where to even begin…
I may have to take my laptop outside to enjoys some sun.
I’m planning a fun fitness topic tonight, be sure to check it out!
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Have a lovely, healthy, and glowing day, :)
angelaaa! hello :)
i love just about ANYTHING in sandwich form and I haven’t actually done it yet, but I’ve envisioned the Sweet Potato Sandwich and imagined that it would be delicious. lol
you know what could be a yummy addition? black beans… I had this vision of like a sweet potato sandwich with a layer of mashed black beans, & def ketchup, and maybe some sort of green too? something chewy, like kale. mmmm.
lol. have a great day! & good luck w/ the online bakery work. sounds intimidating – baby steps! good luck :)
Oh yum… I was just searching for something to do with some SPs I need to use up!
Sweet potatoes are just so darn amazing! ;) Enjoy your time in the sun.
xxoo
Heather
That sweet potato sandwich looks so good and filling! I never buy sweet potatoes even though I love them, they’re next on my grocery list.
Love your fun lunches, so inspiring!
Hi Angela,
I was wondering what kind of cruise did you take for your honeymoon? I’ve never considered a cruise before but your pictures make it seem like fun!
We went on a 12-day Mediterranean cruise with Princess Cruise Lines. There were things we liked about it (the food and the ability to see so many places in such a short amount of time), and things we didn’t like (the avg age on the ship was 50+, very costly, and we found that we didn’t have enough time in each city). All and all it was a fun experience though and Princess Cruise (Emerald ship) was absolutely phenomenal in every sense of the word. I would research on Trip Advisor- thats what we did! ~A
Ange, you always come up with the most delicious ideas for meals!! you should be a personal chef :).
ps i can’t wait for the healthy living summit swag bags….omg glo bars finally! i cannot WAIT.
All of your eats look amazing!! I really need to try those pancakes!!
That sandwich looks like exactly what I am craving today!
See, i would make those pancakes, except I can GUARANTEE, i would eat the entire batch at one sitting. Just looking at them makes me drool :-)
Haha, you are such a baker, piping everything on food :P Cold pancakes before a run is a fabulous idea!! No, genius idea!
Yum! And I have a sweet potato that was just looking to be used . . . definitely going to try it on a sandwich!
Pipping your own ketchup is such a great idea.
mmmmm, you have me wanting a sweet potato!!
Mmm! Not usually a fun of cold pancakes but that sweet potato sandwich is a must try for me!!
Ange – you make the most amazing looking food! Seriously! It’s pretty amazing you make cold pancakes sound delicious…but…you do! Props to you girl…props to you!