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White Sweet Potato Curly Fries

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Homemade Ketchup & Fries

If you’re going to make homemade ketchup, then you must also make a homemade something to dip in said ketchup.  Like curly fries.  White sweet potato curly fries.

I was drawn to the palest sweet potatoes in the stack {labeled Japanese sweet potatoes}, assuming they’d be less sweet than the typical orange variety.  A little Google research validated the less-sweet hunch, but left me confused on what variety of sweet potato I picked up from the stack.  Although Japanese sweet potatoes have a white flesh, their skin is super purple.  A Japanese sweet potato, my potato was not.

Homemade Crispy Fries

Another mission was to make a crispier fry than I had made in the past.  I used this recipe {that called for eggs whites in lieu of corn starch} and a crispier fry is exactly what I got.  And although the spiralized slightly sweet potato fry was delish, it was a bit too time consuming for me.  I’ll likely stick to the traditionally shaped fry in the future.

Homemade Chipotle Ketchup

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Homemade Chipotle Ketchup

There is no shortage of housemade ketchup in Austin.  So much so, that I’ve not only developed a taste for the condiment, but the desire to make my own has crept upon me as well.

Boiling Homemade Ketchup

And since I still had leftover chipotle peppers in the freezer {from salsa making} and I still can’t get enough of that smoky spice, I decided chipotle ketchup was the way to go.

Homemade Ketchup & Fries

I was surprised how much the ketchup lightened after a few seconds in the Blendtec.  But after the initial confusion of red turned orange, I fell in love with my housemade ketchup.  I jarred some up for a friend’s party this weekend and added ketchup to my unpublished list of store-bought things I plan to home-make from now on.

Curly fry recipe coming soon.

Recipe adapted from Epicurious.

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Easy Peasy Chicken Snack

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Healthy Snack

There are only so many walnuts and pistachios I can snack on throughout the day before I become oh so bored.  But then I went tubing last weekend and had the fear of not only being bored, but starving.  So I picked up some boneless, skinless breasts and created a rapid snack that I could take with me on the river.

Chicken Seasoning

I’m really loving the spices and freeze-dried veggies/herbs I picked up at a spice shop while in Milwaukee and thought they’d work well with what I was trying to accomplish.  The Caribbean Calypso Seasoning is so vibrant and perfect for seafood and poultry. Perfect.  And the freeze-dried scallions are more addictive than you could ever imagine.  They’re like the way healthy version of french fried onions.

Seasoned Chicken

I boiled the chicken, cut it into cubes, sprinkled liberally with both seasonings, and packed away in to-go containers.  This snack was filling with a flavor that kept my attention.

A Spiralized Meal

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Spiraled Zucchini Casserole

I’ve been admiring others’ perfect veggie noodles/spirals a lot lately.  Like a lot, a lot. Enough to order another gadget that will undoubtedly crowd my cabinets to the point of kitchen avalanche.

Spiralizer

But after my first spiralizing experience, I have a feeling that this tool will be used often enough to stay front and center.  It may even find a permanent place next to the Blendtec that’s used almost daily.  Seriously.

Roasted Veggies

It is unlikely that I’ll go all out with recipes like the one pictured in this post {Inspiralized’s Baked Zucchini Pasta with Pancetta, Olives and Broccoli} on the regular. But I would like to have a stock of simple zucchini noodle {or other vegetable noodle} dishes that I rotate throughout the week.

Sauteed Pancetta

But if you’re looking for a gluten-free, dairy-free comfort food casserole, this recipe {using coconut oil in place of olive oil and macadamia nut ricotta in place of milk ricotta} is the way to go.  Topped with an egg, I bet it would become an extra delicious breakfast dish as well.