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breakfast hasselback sweet potatoes + friday links

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putting sriracha on it, spreading it with nutella, covering it with sprinkles... these are a few of the elite actions that i keep in my back pocket for when i need to a) salvage a dish that i royally screwed up, b) elevate something that would otherwise be just a little bit too basic, or c) recover from reading too much heavy news. to this list i would like to add: hasselbacking. so jolly, so easy to do, and it looks so cool! you can hasselback a lot of things: salami, zucchini, tomatoes. the original, of course, is the potato, so today over on the west elm blog, i have hasselbacked a sweet potato and added bacon and eggs to make it a perfect little pocket-sized brunch. go check it out!!

eggboy and i are off to chicago for a bit! we'll be celebrating stoopie's birthday, having our first of two thanksgivings (!!!), and i'll be going inside of the tv to be a jennie-o turkey girl! it does not involve me dressing like a turkey, unfortunately, but i will be demonstrating some fun thanksgiving sides and desserts on air. i can't wait! i'm nervous and excited and praying that i don't accidentally tell the anchor to please toss this salad. so if you live in chicago, tune in on monday and tuesday morning! i'll be tweeting exact channels and air times.

have a great weekend everyone!!!! 

friday links!!!

this guy opened a rogue trader joe's in vancouver and i really want to do the same in grand forks.

hi, look at this massive squishy egg nest. if anyone should have it, eggboy should, right???

go to this post for the ramen donuts, stay for josh's joshness. 

i would like a winter ball to wear this convertible pouffy dress to, please and thanks.

these maple oozy gooey butter cake bites. i could see myself eating entire batch in one sitting.

i'm a sucker for temporary tattoos these days.

ariko inaoka's photos, how beautiful are they??? i especially love the erna and hrefna series.  

ellen made my red velvet macaroon cake in miniature tiered form!!!!

this brussels sprout & hazelnut gratin looks sooo perfect.

kelsey has a new elk friend + fig pull-apart bread (!!!!)

coconut oil pie crust!

mandy's new series, "the shit i eat when by myself," is so real and fantastic. 

my friend talia has an entire radio show about pizza and i've spent the week listening to the backlog and i love it so much.

can all of my ice cream cones come with little bunny cookies and christmas trees?

-yeh!

naptime in a bed of stuffing

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you know, for how good stuffing tastes, you'd think it'd dress a little nicer for the occasion. it always looks so disheveled and unkempt, like please, we are at an event, would it have killed you to run a brush through your hair? (i guess i shouldn't talk?) it was probably stuffing's beat up homeless look that kept me from trying it for the first approximately 18 years of my life. if someone had told me that it's just bread with a few harmless vegetables and tons and tons of fat, i would have been all in.

maybe that was my family's plan all along: keep molly alienated from the stuffing so that there's more for us.

oh well, they won!

but now i'm making up for lost time. i've been dipping my toes in these past few years with challah stuffing, sufganiyot stuffing, and a soon-to-come bagel stuffing, and now i'm thinking i'm grown-up enough to make a boozy one. it's inspired by shelly's pretzel panzanella, it references my past life as a mustard collector, and it requires you to open a can of beer, pour a little bit into the stuffing, and then pour a lotta bit into your mouth because what is a giant dora the explorer float without a slight buzz anyway? oh, and bacon!!!!! duh. 

this recipe is over on jones dairy farm's stuffing microsite! it might be one of the jolliest sites ever, because my stuffing is cozied up next to outrageous things like cinnamon roll stuffing and hawaiian sweet bread stuffing and a bagillion other casseroles of love that i just want to take a nap in once i'm all tryptophanned out and ready to explode. 

thanksgiving is in 15 days people!!!!!!!!!!! get jazzed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

-yeh!!!!!

thank you so much to jones dairy farm for sponsoring this post!!! they are the bee's knees and you should all check out their stuffing site because it's got >25 stuffing recipes, a stuffing vs. dressing poll (team stuffing 4ever), cooking tips, a $1 off coupon, and a really great aqua/lime green color scheme. follow them on fb and twitter for giveaways, tips, and other fun goodies!

chocolate peanut butter breakfast mousse + a giveaway

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this week has brought big, fat, snowflakes. thick juicy ones that require us to break out into the schmaltziest of christmas songs while we brew our coffee in the dark of the morning. 

it hasn't really stuck yet, but the christmas shit has hit the shelves,

gingerbread recipes are on my brain,

and i'm slowly adding on a new winter layer by way of bagels and salted butter. (someone stop me or else my wedding dress isn't gonna fit.)

it's happening you guys, winter is totally happening.

for a second there, when the weather was so darn warm during harvest, i was worried that this winter would be one of those freak winters that doesn't have snow. but lolz who am i kidding, those don't really happen here in the north pole, especially during a polar vortex, which by the way is coming for a visit next week!!

i'm so excited i could spit. 

i'm going to hibernate and mull two servings of wine to have with our supper and only watch christmas movies when we don't have homeland to catch up on. but speaking of homeland, i am stressing out about it this week for obvious saul berenson reasons. ughhghghgh. 

so here's a little festive recipe for you to eat in the morning by the window as the snow sprinkles down from the sky. it's mousse inspired by ashlae's two ingredient mousse, and oh how it's breakfasty, let me count the ways: it's made with yogurt! so it's sort of reminiscent of those yoplait whips that i used to get when i was still fearful of grown-up yogurt. it's got peanut butter, so, protein. and it also has hidden green things in it (!!!!!!). i mixed in one of those aloha packets, which is basically a bunch of green veggies condensed down to a powder. you can't really taste it in this mousse + that's one less salad you have to eat later in the day = four bagels' worth of wins. the type of chocolate you'd like to use is up to you: for an extra healthy version, use a super dark chocolate, like 75% or 80%. for a sweeter version, use milk chocolate. you could also experiment with different yogurts. i like using the plain jane variety because i find that most yogurts are just 2 sweet 4 me. and then when you're done, finish the suckers off with some fruit and another dollop of yogurt and dare i say, sprinkles. because...breakfast mousse should have breakfast sprinkles, no?

chocolate peanut butter breakfast mousse

makes 4 servings

ingredients

7 oz chocolate, chips or broken up into pieces

3 tb creamy peanut butter

a pinch of salt

1 packet aloha daily good greens chocolate blend

1 c plain yogurt

 

clues

first: i find it easiest to have all of your ingredients measured out and standing by (cooking show-style), as well as four jars or containers and an electric hand mixer. 

heat your chocolate in a double boiler or large microwave safe bowl, microwaving in increments of 30 seconds, until it's just melted. try not to get it hotter than it needs to be.

if using a double boiler, pour the melted chocolate into a large bowl. (if you microwaved it, you can keep it in the same bowl.) with your mixer, beat in the peanut butter, salt, and aloha blend until combined. add the yogurt and beat for 30-60 seconds, until it begins to thicken. transfer to your jars and then, i mean, you *could* eat it now, but it's best to let it set up for at least half an hour in the fridge.

have yourself a classy, mousse-y breakfast!

-yeh!

if you'd like to win an aloha trial pack, leave a comment telling me about your favorite way to incorporate chocolate into your breakfast! open to u.s. residents only. update: this giveaway is now closed.

thanks so much to aloha for sponsoring this post!!!! all opinions are my own!

brisket tacos + an end of harvest party

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this year's end of harvest party was extra special. it was eggboy's first one as a man in charge, alongside eggdad, and it was our first gathering in the space where our wedding reception will be! the space is typically used for tractors and tools and welding, but we cleared it out, put up string lights all hipster-like, and set out the baddest taco bar in the history of midwestern taco bars. 

eggboy contributed about 12 kinds of salsa and i spearheaded some brisket, even though i was nervous about cooking for a bunch of big burly hunter men. because, i mean, preparing meat does not come as naturally to me as, say, baking a cupcake. i did not grow up eating red meat and when i was little i did not even really like any meat unless it was (turkey) baloney or (turkey) salami. so tell me to host a high tea or afternoon cake club and i will do it in a jiffy, but inform me of a dinner that i need to cook for 16 people that probably kill a majority of the meat that they eat and i will be a nervous nelly. very nervous nelly.

so i hyperventilated a bit and stressed out but in the end i chose brisket for the centerpiece of our tacos because in the past few years, brisket has wiggled its way into my life by way of the jewish holidays and i invited it to stay a while because of its earth-shattering smells and perfect next-day sandwiches. brisket might actually be my comfort meat, my entryway into the world of non-lunchmeat meat. each time i make it, it gets easier and i think why don't i make this more often? maybe when i'm a real married minnesota lady, one of those who has a slow cooker, i'll make brisket on the reg and you can all come over for brisket tacos every other tuesday.

here was our menu:

for noshing // chips, a butt load of guac, and every single kind of salsa that eggboy could get his hands on

for the taco bar // zinfandel braised brisket (recipe here), a light cabbage slaw, and all the fixins you could ever want

on the side // roasted sweet potatoes

for sipping // kendall-jackson vintner's reserve zinfandel

for dessert // eggsister's coconut cream pie!

happy taco-ing everyone!

-yeh!

thanks so much to kendall-jackson for sponsoring this post!!!! all opinions are my own!