Sunday, March 28, 2010

purple sweet potatoes...are amazzzzzing...

i love sweet potatoes...love love love them...i can't explain it...i just do...if it were possible to just live off of them i would...oh, and avocados too...getting back to my love affair with sweet potatoes...i was watching an episode of doctor oz one day this week and in one of the segments of his show he listed the 5 superfoods of 2010...and one of them was "imo"...a purple-fleshed sweet potatoe...imo are a good source of anthocyanins and have the highest antioxidant activity among sweet potato varieties...in one study, the antioxidant activity in purple sweet potato was 3.2 times higher than that of a blueberry variety...crazy right?

my mother and i went on a hunt for them earlier today, and found them in an asian grocery store...i had some for dinner this evening, i steamed them very lightly, for about 5 minutes...i'm hooked...this variety of sweet potato is incredibly tasty...it reminded me of a cross between a roasted chestnut and sweet potato...it's not as sweet as a regular sweet potato...it's a little more dense in texture than the orange fleshed sweet potato...i think i want to eat them every day...

i had some really yummy food today...

cherry chocolate bomb (breakfast)
sprouted corn tortilla with some amy's refried beans (lunch)

and for dinner i had:



i mixed this with some frozen veggies (kale, collard greens, yellow beans, rapini) and i got this...



i steamed some of these lovely pretty purple sweet p's...



and i sauteed these little gems...



and i had myself a beauty of a plate...a fantabulous dinner...



what did you all have for dinner this evening?

i hope you're all having a wonderful weekend. my head is aching right now...and i have no coconut water to help make it go away...

good night lovelies...
Posted by Nelly at 3:25 AM

6 comments:

  1. Averie @ Averie CooksMarch 28, 2010 at 4:52 AM

    oh the din din looks great and ive had purple tiny "new" or red potatoes that are purp but never purp sweet taters. yum!

    love your layout and you inspired me to get off my ass and change mine up :)

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  2. AnonymousMarch 28, 2010 at 6:35 AM

    I love the idea of purple sweet potatoes! I've never seen them before but it's definitely something I'd try :)

    Sorry about the headache :( Get some sleep & feel better!

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  3. LaurenMarch 28, 2010 at 9:14 PM

    Never heard of imo! Where was the asian grocery that you found them at? Was it in chinatown? I want to try them! They sound great. Hope you had a great weekend.

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  4. NellyMarch 29, 2010 at 2:51 AM

    hi lauren!!!!

    i actually went to a store in the islington and finch area...but i am ALMOST positive chinatown would have them at any grocery store...

    they are amazing...i hope you find them!!!

    hope you had a lovely weekend too...(even though it was so gloomy and wet today)...

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  5. AnonymousApril 2, 2010 at 5:54 AM

    in hawaii, we eat those purple potatoes a lot, we call them okinawan sweet potatoes. you can make a really good mashed potato dish using them + coconut milk. there's also a famous desert made from there: okinawan sweet potato haupia pie. it's basically sweet potato pie topped with a coconut custard. soo good!

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  6. NellyApril 3, 2010 at 6:45 AM

    yummers!!! thanks for the ideas healthy, easy, ono!!!! i'm totally hooked on the mashed potato dish!!!

    =)

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