Archive for Side Dishes

Easy-Peasy Almond Butter & Blendtec Review

Can I just say how much I’ve enjoyed my Blendtec since I got it the beginning of January?! I’ve wanted to get a Blendtec blender for a few years now. I’ve seen lots of other bloggers that I love talk about how great it is…

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Top 10 Unrefined Kitchen Recipes

Top 10 Unrefined Kitchen Recipes

The other day I thought it might be fun to look through my old recipe posts and see which ones were “pinned” on Pinterest or “liked” on Facebook the most. I was shocked to find a couple recipes pinned over 1,000 times! I thought I…

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Grain-free “Cornbread”

Grain-free “Cornbread”

One meal we love to eat is cornbread and chili. After cutting out grains and refined sugars, we were still able to make chili paleo, but it starts to get a little tricky when it comes to cornbread…pretty much a paleo oxymoron. For quite some…

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Sweet Potato Casserole

Sweet Potato Casserole

We grew up having a sweet potato casserole at Thanksgiving and Christmas with pineapple, streusel and marshmallows. It was so good! I decided this year to try and replicate it (and omitted the marshmallows, though you certainly could make homemade ones to put on top)!…

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Honey Glazed Carrots

Honey Glazed Carrots

Honey Glazed Carrots Ingredients: 2 cups baby carrots 2 Tbsp. butter 1 Tbsp. honey 1/4 tsp. salt Directions: 1. Bring water to boil in a medium saucepan. 2. Add carrots to water and boil for 8-10 minutes (or until tender). 3. Drain most of the…

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Mashed Sweet Potatoes (Yams)

Mashed Sweet Potatoes (Yams)

Mashed Sweet Potatoes Ingredients:1-2 Sweet Potatoes or YamsAlmond milk or Coconut milk (optional)Butter (optional) Directions:1. Rinse and peel sweet potatoes or yams.2. Cut potatoes into 1″ slices.3. Boil potatoes in water until tender when pierced with a fork.4. Drain water. 5. Mash potatoes until smooth…

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Sweet Potato Fries

Sweet Potato Fries

Sweet Potato Fries Ingredients: 1 large sweet potato (or yam) 1 Tbsp. butter (melted) salt pepper Directions: 1. Preheat oven to 450 degrees 2. Peel sweet potato or yam (or leave peelings on!) 3. Cut potato into 1/2 inch strips. 4. Place strips of potatoes…

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