“Burgers” and “fries”

Last night, my boyfriend and I just felt like a good old fashioned meal of burgers and fries while we watched Pulp Fiction(which was the first time that I had ever seen it). We just decided to do it a little differently. We made a little pit stop at my favorite place-Whole Foods-and grabbed some ground chicken, basil, red onions and sweet potatoes.
We decided to ditch the buns on the chicken burgers and just serve it over a bed of lettuce to make the meal a little lighter.

We cooked the onions on low with some olive oil and salt for about 25 minutes.
While the onions cooked we made the sweet potato fries.
The chicken burgers were incredibly easy to put together. I just formed the ground chicken into two patties and sprinkled salt and pepper on both sides. I then cooked the patties in olive oil for about 5 minutes on each side.
When the patties were done, I put them over a bed of mixed greens with the onions and spread some homemade pesto on top.
Homemade pesto is super simple to make as well: just put one clove of garlic, a bunch of basil, 1/2 cup of olive oil, and 1/4 cup of Parmesan in a food processor.
Enjoy!!
We did!

Sweet, sweet potato fries

I love sweet potatoes. All types of sweet potatoes: yams, sweet potatoes, Japanese sweet potatoes, etc. one of my favorite dishes to make with sweet potatoes is sweet potato oven fries.
If you like sweet potatoes, you’ll like sweet potato fries. And even if you don’t like sweet potatoes, you’ll love the fries.
Today I worked out really hard at the gym and I was studying my brains out so I got really hungry. I needed some fries. But of course, being the nutrition student that I am, I’m not about to go stop by Micky-D’s and order a supersized set of fries. No, I’m going to bake myself some sweet potato oven fries.

You can use whatever type of root you want for this recipe: carrot, celery root, yams, sweet potatoes…
In fact, the more variety, the tastier the snack!
All you have to do is preheat the oven to 400. Then you cut your root vegetables into 1/4 inch wide strips (don’t peel the potatoes! The skin is tasty!). Next, mince 2 garlic cloves and add them to the cut roots. Put the garlic and roots into a plastic bag and pour in about 1-2 tablespoons olive oil along with 1 teaspoon salt and pepper. Close the bag and toss the ingredients around until everything is equally covered. Pour it all on to a cookie sheet and bake for 30-40 minutes.
Enjoy!! I did..