paleo supper

I'm reading The Paleo Manifesto by John Durant, which is convincing me to change my diet a little from the low carb/clean way I have been eating for a few months. Sweet potatoes used to be an absolute staple in my diet until I started eating low carb and cut them out. So far, I've still felt great after re-introducing sweet potatoes. 

The salad includes organic spinach, cucumbers I grew, and tomatoes that friends grew. I bought the whole free range chicken and organic sweet potatoes from Trader Joe's. The potatoes are locally grown. 

I rinsed the chicken, patted it dry, and stuffed it with thyme from my garden and Kerrygold butter. I seasoned it with salt and pepper and baked at 425 for an hour and a half. 

The whole meal is what I would consider paleo, healthy, easy, and delicious! 

sweet potato biscuits

As a southerner, I'm ashamed to admit that I don't have a go-to biscuit recipe. I think I made biscuits in foods and nutrition class in high school, and since then, I've only made drop biscuits a handful of times to top chicken pot pie. So I'm taking a break from doughnuts to search for great biscuit recipes. 

Thumbing through a few hand me down cookbooks last week, I left some pages open with biscuit recipes. When we had extra baked sweet potatoes on hand, I decided to start my biscuit making with a recipe for sweet potato biscuits. 

The recipe is fairly quick and easy, but the dough was sticky, difficult to roll out, and more difficult to cut, pick up, and place on a baking stone. If I make this recipe again, I will roll out the dough a tad thicker, as the best biscuit in the batch was the biggest one I made by throwing together all of the scraps.

Do you have a good biscuit recipe or biscuit making tips? Please share!

Christmas sweet potatoes

I made sweet potato casserole (recipe) for Christmas dinner. 

My dad's friend grew these sweet potatoes. I used the small ones for the casserole and saved the bigger, prettier ones to bake whole later.

Here, my sweet potatoes are plated with Boston butt cooked by my dad's friend in Salisbury and green bean bundles that my mom made.

We had a delicious Christmas dinner that felt like Thanksgiving part two. Well, actually, part three--I wish I had a picture of my plate from our gathering on Christmas eve!

What did your family eat on Christmas?