Blueberry Sweet Potato breakfast casserole - Paleo, Whole30

When I am doing Whole30, I get tired of eating eggs! Who doesn't? Believe it or not, this is what I eat when I am tried of eggs. Even though it has eggs in it, it doesn't taste like an egg dish to me.

Cooking Equipment

12-inch cast iron skillet, seasoned

Ingredients

up to 1/4 cup ghee (if you're not on whole30 you can use butter)

2-3 medium sweet potatoes, peeled and dices in half inch cubes

1/2 tsp salt

1 apple, diced

5 large eggs

1 cup canned coconut milk 

1/4 cup chopped walnuts or almonds

1/2 cup blueberries fresh or frozen

Preheat oven to 325 degrees. On your stove top, heat half the ghee in the skillet add your sweet potatoes and sprinkle with salt. Cook sweet potatoes until they are almost soft, 7-8 minutes and then add the apple. Cook for 3-4 minutes minutes until the sweet potatoes and the apples are soft. While cooking your apples, warm the coconut milk in the microwave for 15-20 seconds to partially melt it. Beat your eggs slightly with coconut milk. There will be some clumps of coconut milk in the eggs, this is fine as it will melt more when you pour it in the skillet.

Sprinkle nuts and blueberries over the sweet potatoes and then pour the egg mixture. Stir to incorporate with the sweet potatoes. Any clumps of coconut milk should melt, take care to mix it in with the eggs.

Place the skillet in the oven and bake until the eggs are done, 15-20 minutes.

Peach Iced Tea in the Instant Pot

Pressure cooking is amazing at infusing flavors in minutes rather than hours. Honestly I am not even sure how long it would take to make peach iced tea if I had to wait for it to infuse the peach flavor naturally but I'm guessing quite a long time and probably some amount of muddling.

My trusty Instant Pot makes all of this unnecessary. It makes peach iced tea in one minute! Ok, it really takes more like half an hour because the full pot takes quite a while to come to pressure, if you've been pressure cooking a while you know how misleading those cook times can be! #realtalk

This tasty beverage is also a great option for healthy living it is Whole 30, Paleo and zero points on Weight Watchers (green, blue and purple). If I am feeling fancy, I add carbonation to it with my Drinkmate beverage fizzer. If you haven't tried sparkling peach iced tea, you are missing out. Be careful though it fizzes A LOT.

Take the tag off!

Ingredients

8 cups of water

2 family sized tea bags (I use Lipton Cold Brew)

1 can of peaches in 100% juice

optional: sweetener of your choice (none for Whole 30)

Directions: Put water and peaches (do not drain!) in your Instant Pot. Remove any paper tags from your tea bags and add to the pot. Set Instant Pot to sealing, manual pressure for 1 minute. Turn off the "keep warm" setting. Following the end of the cook time, allow to naturally release for at least 5 minutes and then quick release the remaining pressure.

When I'm following Weight Watchers, I add 1/2tsp of Lankato Monkfruit 0 calorie sweetener (0pts) to each large glass! This is not Whole 30 or Paleo compliant though.

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Dairy-free, fluffy mashed potatoes

While you can make mashed potatoes by simply smashing up your potatoes the fluffy, creamy potatoes that many of us are accustomed to eating usually involves some kind of dairy - butter, milk, cream or actually in my family, we really like to add cream cheese to ours.

The dairy really transforms them into another dish. So, how do you make them dairy free but still decadently delicious? Well, you might think I am crazy but coconut milk or more specifically, coconut cream. The creamy/solid part of a can of full-fat coconut milk.

I promise you will not taste coconut in these potatoes at all. It's amazing to me how close the taste is the dairy laden potatoes of my childhood.

Ingredients

2 lbs potatoes, diced into 1" cubes, peeled if desired or not

1 can full-fat coconut milk

2 Tbl ghee

Spices - whatever you like in your mashed potatoes, I use garlic, salt and pepper.

Cooking equipment: potato masher or hand mixer

Boil your potatoes until they are soft in enough water to cover them, about 20 minutes. Drain the water and add the coconut milk using only the solid coconut cream, reserving the liquid from the can. Add the ghee and spices to your taste. Mash the potatoes, I use my kitchen aid hand mixer to mash. If the potatoes are too thick you can use some of liquid from the can or additional ghee until they are your desired consistency.

I like to mix a little extra ghee in when I eat them too. :)

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Dairy-free ranch in your blender!

You are not going to believe how much this non-dairy dressing tastes like ranch! I am shocked myself and I am a ranch aficionado. 

This dairy-free recipe makes a smallish batch and be made in a personal sized smoothie blender and it's perfect for lactose free, paleo or Whole 30 diets. I made it because I'm doing Whole 30 and one of the biggest W30 challenges is condiments or sauces to liven up vegetables that you eat by the truckload. But also, you are supposed to have "plated fat" with every meal and this counts!

I mix it up in my Epica smoothie blender and it's filled to the top. My blender is 20oz if yours is smaller, it will be too small for recipe as written as it basically fills my blender. The nice thing about making this recipe in a smoothie blender, is I can use the top as a convenient pour spout.

When it's first mixed, it's a little thin. If you chill it about 30 minutes it will be perfect consistency but you can eat it right away. If you know you are going to eat it immediately you can use less of the "watery" part of the coconut milk when you blend it so it's thicker.

Ingredients

1 can full fat coconut milk (see note on making a thicker dip)

1 egg or 1/4 cup liquid egg

2 Tbsp of red wine vinegar

juice of half a lemon or about 1 Tbsp lemon juice

1 tsp sea salt

1 tsp garlic powered

3/4 tsp onion powder

1 tsp dried basil

1 tsp dried oregano

1 tsp ground black pepper

Cooking equipment:

Blender with at least a 20oz capacity

In the blender

Put all of the ingredients in your blender and mix for 2-3 minutes until well blended. You may serve immediately or chill for 30 minutes for a thicker consistency. Can be refrigerated for up to 1 week.

Please note this recipe contains raw egg. Consuming raw egg can increase your risk of food-borne illness.

If you want a thicker dip, don't use all of the liquid in the coconut milk.

 Do not allow the ranch to warm to room temperature and then put it back in the fridge for consumption later as it contains raw egg. 

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