Sweet Potato Burger Bowls

 

Hi Friends!  I want to preface this post and recipe by saying this is the most flexible recipe to work with.  You can add or omit anything you want...seriously.  This is a protein-packed and easy meal for you or the fam.

 

I tweaked it when making it for mine and I will explain.

 

I have seen variations of this recipe on Pinterest and TikTok.  One of my favorite TikTokers Alycia H was making a similar bowl one night and I felt inspired and it was sooo yum!  I wanted to share it with you AND share a recipe because it has been a minute since I have shared one here...anyway,  I digress...here is what I used to make four bowls

 

1 lb. ground beef

1 vidalia onion

2 sweet potatoes (or 1 sweet potato and 2 cups of rice)

1 avocado

2 cups cottage cheese (we like Good Culture brand)

 

Various toppings: Everything But The Bagel Seasoning, Pickled Onions, Truffle Hot Sauce 

 

 Wash your sweet potatoes/potato.  Rub with olive oil and salt. Then cook your sweet potato in the air fryer. It took approximately 30 minutes for 1 large potato.

 

Heat skillet, drizzle with olive oil.  Cook your vidalia onion until caramelized. Add in your ground beef.  Season with salt and pepper to taste. Cook until browned.

 

Assemble your bowls.

 

Cut sweet potato in half and mash each half in individual bowls. My girls do not like sweet potatoes so I substituted white rice in their bowls- cooked two cups so they would have 1 cup each.

 

Top the potatoes or rice with 1/4 of ground beef mixture. 

 

Slice avocado and spread between the four bowls.

 

Put 1/2 cup of cottage cheese on each bowl. 

 

Top with your toppings of choice - I did Everything But The Bagel Seasoning, Pickled Onions and Truffle Hot Sauce

 

It was DELISH!

 

Favorite Easter Recipes

 

 

 

 

 Resurrection Rolls

 

A MUST every year is making Resurrection Rolls together on Holy Saturday- we talk about the significance and talk about the scripture as we are making these- great activity for the kids and so fun to make and see how "Jesus rises."  We use Shay's recipe HERE

 

 

 

 Bacon Gouda Croissant Casserole

 

We also typically do a big brunch on Easter Sunday.  Another one of Shay's recipes has been a big hit over the years.  You can find it HERE 

 

 

 

My mom will make a Noodle Kugle or an Italian Pastitera as well.  We always have our colored eggs out too in case someone is hankering for a hard boiled egg ;)

Bunny Breads

Every year, since I was little, we also make Bunny Breads.  My mom found the original recipe in The Boston Globe and cut it out :)  You can also find it in my post HERE

 

Then we always do some kind of a beef roast or ham.  This year, we are going back to an old favorite

 

 Beef Roast with Worcestershire Butter Sauce

Find it HERE

 

 and I will make a roasted broccoli to accompany this while my Father In Law makes his amazing scalloped potatoes!

 

 

Birds Nest Cookies

 

Another recipe my Mom cut out from a magazine - it was a Jif Peanut Butter Ad.  You can still find the recipe on their website HERE

 

 

 

 Love sharing our traditions with you.  Hope you give one of these recipes a try!  Very excited for Easter Weekend :)

 

Lobster Risotto

This dish goes down as one of my favorite meals of all time.  I thought I would share it with you today to perhaps inspire you for a lovely Valentine Dinner on Friday Night.  We are going with something similar.  Robby B is whipping us up a Lobster Pot Pie but the whole lobster topic reminded me that I needed to still share this recipe with you.

My friend Jeanine is an amazing cook- I would actually call her a chef.  Everything she makes is not only delicious but also beautiful!

The first time she made this for us was when she hosted our wine club and I just wanted to dive into the bowl- ha!

I asked her for the recipe as I decided that is what my dish would be on Christmas Eve for our Feast of the Seven Fishes...it did not disappoint and I was so glad....my extended family actually wiped it out so I was thrilled!

Here is this little recipe...it is not complicated...like any other risotto dish, it is just time consuming...but oh so worth it...enjoy!

Ingredients:

6 cups chicken broth

1 yellow onion, diced

1 diced shallot

1 garlic clove,  minced

1-1/2 cups Arborio rice

1/2 cup white wine

2 cups loose, chopped lobster meat

3 Tbls Butter

1/2 to 1 cup heavy cream (depends on how rich you want it)

1/2 cup shredded or grated Parmesan

Salt/pepper to taste

Chopped chives for garnish

Instructions:

 

Bring the chicken broth to a low simmer. Take a little of broth (enough so lobster does not dry out) and heat lobster meat w/ it in a saucepan.

Heat oil over medium heat in a lg. saucepan. Stir in onion and shallot until tender. Stir in garlic. Add arborio and stir 1-2 minutes. Add wine, stirring for 1 minute. Stir broth, 1/2 cup at a time, into rice mixture. Stir constantly until absorbed. Repeat with rest of broth, about 30 minutes. Stir in butter, cream and cheese. Add about 1-1/2 cup lobster meat (reserve 1/2 cup for garnish). Add salt and pepper to taste, garnish with remaining lobster and sprinkle w/ chives.

I doubled this recipe for Christmas Eve and Jeanine did as well when she was hosting but you don't have to for an intimate Valentine dinner :)