2-08pm
Those of you following my life and not my recipes get the day off from reading today’s post! The other day Caroline Leaf posted a Facebook status that her daughter Dominique had made a sweet potato waffle.
It looks yummy and so simple, but I don’t have a waffle pan, so I decided to try it as a pancake. Step by step…here we go…I only had orange sweet potato, so when grated it looks like grated carrots. It wasn’t. Grate the sweet potato raw…
Then add a free range egg…
I just broke the egg directly onto the top of the sweet potato and mixed it well. As I don’t have a waffle pan, I decided maybe it should be a bit better blended so I used my stick blender on it…
…and it came out looking like this….
I heated a blob of coconut oil in my small pan…
…and once the coconut oil melted, I poured in the batter and spread it to fill the pan…
It started to cook. While that was happening, I defrosted some frozen berries…
Within a few minutes, the pancake was beginning to fluff up and pull a little away from the side of the pan….this is a good indication that it’s time to flip it…
Gently, once you’re pretty sure it’s browned on the underside, lift the sides all the way round. Then, with a large enough spatula, take the plunge, pick it up and turn it over…it should be lovely and golden on the other side…
Don’t worry if it breaks. Just try flatten it so the other side cooks. It won’t take long before you can slip it out onto a plate and zoosh it up with a delicious topping of your choice. I put on the berries and some cream….
…which is how you think I ate it…but this is how I REALLY ate it…doused in cream!
Yum! It was good. The sweet potato doesn’t taste anything like sweet potato. It’s like a cake kind of base, that you could use for any number of dessert dishes. It’s absolutely worth experimenting with as a low carb option. Each pancake probably has about 7g of carbs. To get an accurate figure, I should have weighed the sweet potato. I didn’t use 2 cups as Dominique’s recipe called for…I probably only used a cup. Low carb purists may not want to use it because it is sweet potato and grows under the ground, but it’s worth knowing about!
Certainly not worth fretting over! Talking of which ‘do not fret’ was my Bible verse this morning. It appears three times in Psalm 37.
Psalm 37 vss. 1,7,8 –
“Do not fret.”
The meaning of ‘fret’ is a state of visible anxiety.
9 letters altogether – “Do not fret”. If only we can internalise them – hard wire them into our brain so their impact flows through our veins, circulates through our minds & seeps calmness into our day. It’s a calmness that comes not from our own strength but from the empowering of the Holy Spirit, in whom we trust. What’s interesting is that 2 of the verses say do not fret about what others are doing. We so often worry about others – those close to us – our children. We also worry about what others do to us…workplace people, other drivers on the road, those we mix with in daily life. Where there are people, we have the potential to worry and fret. Verse 8 is surprising. It’s something I’ve never thought about before when it comes to worrying. It says, “do not fret – it leads only to evil.” I think what can happen is that it escalates beyond simple worry – it becomes bitterness and anger.. God doesn’t want us to be anxious. Lay down your concerns before Him today and take up the peace He offers!
Keep the smile going!
God bless you!
In His Grip,
Helga xx 🙂
Gratitude Pic: The Cottage cushions are finished….
