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Tahini Mashed Purple Sweet Potatoes

November 21, 2016 by Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine 139 Comments

There’s nothing quite as comforting as a plate of mashed potatoes, but it’s time to take it up a notch! Tahini Mashed Purple Sweet Potatoes will blow the traditional side dish out of the park! This recipe is gluten-free, vegan, paleo, and top 8 allergy-free! This purple mash will be the star of any family dinner!

I was lying awake at night embarrassed by the fact that this potato queen did not have a mashed potato recipe on Strength and Sunshine yet! :O Over 3 years and I’m just posting some mashed potatoes? A tragedy! Given the fact that we are only 3 days out from Thanksgiving gives me the perfect opportunity to bring you one last twist on a classic essential for this year’s feast! Since we don’t see much purple on the Thanksgiving table, lots of white, orange, brown, and yellow, a little pop can really help with the celebration.Read More

Purple Sweet Potato Tater Tots

October 3, 2016 by Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine 151 Comments

The childhood classic just go a makeover! Purple Sweet Potato Tater Tots that are baked, gluten-free, allergy-free, vegan, and paleo. This healthier alternative recipe to the fried side dish will have your tots all smiles and laughs! Who could say no to colorful food?

It’s that wonderful time of year again when not only is it sweet potato “season” (although I’d argue there is never a season for potatoes…Potatoes are 365), but also PURPLE sweet potato season! I do have to lament this time and try to reconcile the fact that there is only a 7% chance I’ll have a PSP anytime soon :/ Nary a purple beauty to be found in NJ, I kid you not! The last one I had were my special birthday shipment from Frieda’s, my only connection to the lovely Stokes Purple. Too bad Freida’s has kind of died away and I never hear from them anymore 🙁 No tatoes for me!)Read More

Harissa Potato Salad

January 18, 2016 by Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine 188 Comments

Two types of potatoes, broccoli, and eggplant roasted to perfection and paired with a smoky and spicy harissa sauce. A harissa potato salad, gluten-free, vegan, and paleo, that will elevate you bland dinner side dish to an all new level!

January’s Theme – A New Ingredient For The New Year: Pick a new ingredient that you’ve been wanting to try… and cook or bake up a new recipe in the new year. Are you curious about nutritional yeast, fish sauce, matcha, teff – or maybe even ugli fruit? Show us how you’re cooking with something new (to you!) in 2016. (Recipe ReDux)

Call me condiment girl! From my undieing love for ketchup, infatuation with bbq sauce, and must-have mustard stock, I love them all! They make food fun, enough said! Any easy way to flavor up food, not only am I condiment girl, but also the spice queen, it’s my life’s mission to try to to create with them all. Since this month’s Recipe ReDux theme was all about cooking with new interesting ingredients, I thought it was fitting to bring my first recipe using harissa to the blog!

Italian Chicken Meatballs & Sweet Potato Spaghetti

September 9, 2015 by Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine 155 Comments

Italian chicken meatballs baked and simmered in a homemade tomato sauce, served over easy sweet potato spaghetti. Gluten-free, allergy-free, and paleo, this delicious version of the classic will quickly become a new family dinner favorite.

By posting this recipe I am entering a recipe contest sponsored by California Ripe Olives and am eligible to win prizes associated with the contest. I was not compensated for my time.

Mediterranean cuisine encompasses the likes of Italian, Greek, Turkish, Moroccan, any county that creates the region around the Mediterranean cuisine. That’s why it’s so large, lovely, full of so many flavors and ingredients. One notable ingredient that all these cultures of the cuisine use is olives. Lucky for us here in the states, we have amply supply of California Black Ripe Olives. You know I am pretty fond of black olives already, evidenced here. They are just such a great healthy addition to the diet. From their healthy monounsaturated fats to their values of vitamin E (.25 mg per serving), iron (.49 mg per serving), vitamin A (60 IU per serving), and fiber (.5 grams per serving).Read More

The Best Grain-Free Starches And Carbohydrates

March 10, 2015 by Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine 98 Comments

I love my grains, but I also love my non-grains. Being a Celiac and just a crazy foodie (one that loves potatoes and plantains like no other), I live for all the grain-free starches and carbohydrates out there. For dinner, I am 90% of the time having a non-grain starch. Growing up, I really only ever had potatoes and sweet potatoes as my non-grains, but once I started diving into my passion for cooking and finding every fun way to make gluten-free (allergy-free) living amazing, I began trying everything I could get my hands on.

I’d never turn down a potato. If I could live on them, I would. I consider myself a potato ~~snob~~ connoisseur. It makes me so angry when people don’t know the difference between a Purple Sweet Potato and an Okinawan Sweet Potato. But I’m not here to talk only about potatoes today. I’ve compiled a list of all the best grain-free (gluten-free and paleo…so I’m not including beans here) starches and carbohydrates! There are so many, but they may just be my favorite category of food!Read More