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Purple Roasted Potatoes & Banana Boubon Vanilla Softserve

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What’s shaking friends? Anything exciting happening on Tuesday for you? I’ve been a busy girl running errands, whipping up a few things in the kitch, and trying to find myself a yoga teaching gig in Phoenix. I think I just may have found something , but we shall see. I’ll keep you posted! I am super duper excited!!!! I’ve also started working on a new professional website for myself , so that’s keeping me really busy. Can you say screentime overload between that & this blog?

So the response on the 5-Minute, 3-Ingredient Dark Chocolate Fudge Balls was pretty awesome! Thanks to everyone who said they were loving the looks of those! Give ’em a whirl because they are really yummy and easy and when you just want something chocolaty and nothing else will do, well, those will more than do.

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So for today I thought I’d show you a recent TJ’s shopping trip: Dark Sumatra coffee, carrots, cauli, taters, bananas, apples, red peppers, romaine, spring mix, poppyseed salad dressing, bag of pears, you get the idea. Nothing earth-shattering until…

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…You hone in on this little section with the Mango Chutney (which will get turned into a salad dressing base soon) , Pumpkin Butter (seasonal & awesome on anything from apples to oats to ice cream “syrup” ), Premium EVOO with a cool bartender’s nozzle thingey so the EVOO doesn’t just come flooding out , Maple Syrup ( Grade B , which actually has a nicer flavor than Grade A, smoother and richer ), and TJ’s Bourbon Vanilla Extract .

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Moving along to Today’s Eats… Well from the TJ’s trip, I scored a bag of cute little purple, red, & white potaotes so I quartered the mini-taters and sprinkled them with S & P, Ground Ginger, and EVOO (I didn’t use new EVOO from TJ’s, and had an EVOO flood, just the way Scott likes his taters) . Then I roasted them covered at 375F for 20 minutes, uncovered and flipped them, and then roasted uncovered for another half hour.

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Perfectly crunchy on the outside

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Soft & Tender on the Inside (just like me) (sorry can’t help myself)

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And for dinner I tossed together a huge plate of greens, cukes, tomatoes, carrots, peppers & added in the pretty purple, red, & white taters. Taste-wise the purple taters are pretty much the same as other colors of potatoes but what do you think if you’ve had them?

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Then for dessert. Well remember that TJ’s Bourbon Vanilla Extract I bought? Well, I put that to use with a Batch of Banana Bourbon Vanilla Softserve . Never fear, Gena , I have gotten a buzz from the ‘Nana Softserve . If you don’t have access to the TJ’s Bourbon Vanilla, any vanilla extract will do , or just a shot glass full of bourbon probably wouldn’t hurt, either.

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Scoop the luscious softserve into a bowl.

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And try not to devour the whole thing at once. It will tax your skills, trust me.

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And as long as I had the VitaLove out, I figured I’d make Strawberry Protein Softserve for Skylar. She’s ok with whey protein and I had this sample from YouBars so I took it plus added…

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… 1 frozen banana, 3/4 c frozen raspberrries, dash of agave, splash of almond milk and blended .

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And 45 seconds later, my toddler was in Strawberry Protein Softserve Heaven

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And then, I decided to throw some Dark Chocolate Fudge Balls Into the Bourbon Banana Vanilla Softserve . Sorry, I ate it before I took a picture. Use your imagination.

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and their Pure Oxygen Whitener (a Green Version of OxyClean for the laundry)

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both work wonderfully!! As they say on their website , “Free of any synthetic chemicals, your family and the planet will appreciate it.”

Yoga Today is Kukkutasana (Cock Pose) . Yes, really that’s the name, as in PeaCock . Ahem…moving right along….

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What Green thing do you do, or what would you like to start doing that’s a little more green? A few things that come to mind for me are: Using cloth grocery bags , and at least once a week not driving anywhere and walking where I need to go in order to reduce my carbon footprint . I cloth diapered for half Skylar’s diaper days as to not put 500 years into the landfill for each plastic diaper thrown away . I re-use plastic baggies and save all my containers from nut butters, jelly, hummus, etc and re-use them for food storage or for car snacks . I use nontoxic and eco friendly cleaning products when possible. I am vegan , and although it’s largely for health reasons , that choice also reduces my carbon footprint. What do you do that’s Green or Eco-Friendly?

Stay Tuned For A Creative Fresh Veggie Salad & Dressing Recipe…