Started early this morning putting together breakfast for Sweetie: mashed sweet potatoes, topped with frozen straw, black and blueberries and my Crazy Good No SOS Granola. He also got the rest of the wheat berries, topped with some roasted purple potatoes, purple beans and some sauteed mushrooms that were still around. That plus a banana and an apple is what he’ll eat today.
Since I finished off the sweet potatoes and picked up some lovely purple Okinawan sweet potatoes yesterday, I decided to go ahead and get busy slicing them up and boiling them in a pot of water with some cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg, cardamom and lots of ginger. OMG. Once they were done, I poured off the water, but saved it, and used my hand mixer to whip them up, reincorporating nothing more than not quite all of the cooking liquid back into the puree. These are tasty as fuck and pretty purple color. Can one overdose on anthocyanin, I wonder?
I also went ahead and threw a pot of lentils on stove with a carrot, some celery and a chopped up onion and some garlic. I just freaking love lentils. They’re just so, so good. Sitting on the counter soaking are also two more cups of wheat berries, and two cups of Adzuki beans. I don’t know if I will start these still later today or tomorrow, but allowing both of these to soak will reduce the cooking time.
Decided I needed to make a Costco run this morning, wanting to get some more dates to be able to make our date goo since that’s almost the only sweetener we use anymore. Ended up stocking up on a bunch of other things that I wanted to share with you:
Walnuts – 3 lbs – only $10.99 – last ones I bought were $9.99/lb! (Freeze these to extend their shelf life)
Baking Soda – 13.5 lbs – $4.99 – a little box at the corner store is $1 – use it to clean with and keep a separate container of it in the baking pantry
Milled Flax – 3 lbs – $5.99 – these milled flax seeds appear to be the “steel-cut” of flax seeds. A one pound bag is easily this much, I think.
Pistachios – 3 lbs – $15.49 – not the $8 for 8 oz of “wonderful” pistachios that you often see at the store. Just make sure that you keep what you’re not using in an air-tight bag so they don’t get stale. They’ll last, but 3 lbs of pistachios are a lot to eat.
Chia Seeds – 2.5 lbs – $6.89 – easily about $5 at many markets for about a third as much.
Ezekiel Bread – 2 loaves for $8.69 – corner store wants $6/loaf!
If you’ve got the room to store this stuff, these are some great bulk items to have on hand.