Life Tastes Like Food

Lately.

I went camping at Big Basin over the weekend. We hiked to some sweet waterfalls.

Plane tickets have been bought for South America in June with my best friend! Recommendations for Peru and Educador are encouraged.

You can blame my lack of blog presence to New Girl, The Mindy Project, and the SJ Sharks being in the Stanley Cup. (How funny was the lastest episode of New Girl?!)

I’ve been craving Safeway sushi for lunch. Like every day of the freaking week.

I think I could spend a whole month in Bed Bath & Beyond and STILL be entertained by walking through those isles. They have everything!

I think I might be starting to go through my quarter life crisis. Someone give me life advice please.

I’ve been baking sweet potatoes like it’s my job.

Simple, sweet, and healthy. These basic sweet potato fries will be a great accommodation to any main dish (or alone as a snack!). Once the ends of the fries start to get crispy, they are ready to eat.

These aren’t as crispy as deep fried sweet potato fries but I think that makes them taste fresher and more flavorful. Dip them in some spicy brown mustard and you’re good to go!

P.S.! I am donating 1 dozen of my Salted Dark Chocolate Chip & Hazelnut cookies to the Baking for Kate Online Bake Sale! The Online Bake Sale is happening THIS WEEKEND so be sure to stop by and bid on some great items. Carrie over at Frugal Foodie Mama is hosting this event, and all proceeds will be donated to Kate and her family (learn more about Kate’s story here).

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Easy Baked Sweet Potato Fries

Prep time: 15 mins

Cook time: 40 mins

Total time: 55 mins

Serves: 2

Ingredients

1 Medium sweet potato
1 Tsp olive oil
Dried parsley
Salt (preferably kosher or coarse sea salt) and pepper to taste
Spicy brown mustard or your favorite dipping sauce

Instructions

Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F.
Wash and then cut the sweet potato into thin slices (about ½ in thick, just slightly bigger than shoestring fries). I left the skin on but you can peel it off if you’d like.
In a large bowl, drizzle the olive oil evenly over the fries, and then lightly sprinkle some pepper and parsley on them. Toss everything together.
Place a wire rack (a metal cookie cooling rack works!) on a baking sheet and then lay the fries on the rack in a single layer. Be careful not to put them too close together or else this will steam the fries.
Bake for 30-40 minutes or until the fries start to get crispy/darker on the outside. (I recommend checking the fries around the 30 minute mark because oven temps vary.)
When the fries are ready, let cool for a few minutes and then sprinkle some kosher salt (or corse sea salt) and extra parsley over them.
Serve immediately.

Huzza! The glory of working at a startup in San Francisco means…free snacks and drinks! ALL DAY, EVERYDAY. Which is a good and bad thing depending on how you look at it. Can you guess how many bags of chips I can eat in one day?! It’s too embarrassing, I’m never telling!

One quality I pride myself on is how quickly I can notice when our office kitchen gets restocked. The downside to this is that I find myself eating a lot of unhealthy snacks throughout the day. I’m lucky that our company provides some healthy alternatives though! Or else I probably would have gained 15 pounds by now. Hummus, raw almonds, and Silk Soy Milk are some of the great healthy options in the office kitchen.

We are always fully stocked with Silk Soy Milk! Whether my colleagues and I are adding it to our morning cup(s) of coffee, pouring it into a bowl of cereal, or dipping cookies in it, we’re using it daily.

And then there’s Silk Iced Latte. WOAH. I didn’t even know they had an Iced Latte product so when Silk asked me take a taste, I couldn’t pass it up! 100 calories a serving (1 cup), espresso, and soy. It’s the perfect mid-day office drink and just awesome to have on any warm day in general! My colleagues and I like to go on a lot of coffee runs throughout the work day so this is a great alternative to have around.

Basically, Silk Iced Latte is a win in my book. It’s sweet, creamy, and has the perfect amount of espresso added to it. And so simple to drink! Just pour over ice and enjoy.

I would say that Silk Iced Latte can be summed up as smooth indulgence and espresso decadence all channeled into Endless Love. (Yep, Lionel says it the best.)

Oh! And if you were to blend it with some ice (or ice cream!), that milkshake would definitely bring all the boys the the yard…if you know what I mean. Ok…I’m done hehe

Seriously though, not only is this Iced Vanilla Latte an awesome addition to the Silk family, but when I walked into the grocery store and saw so many different Silk flavors and options, I wanted to try them all! Although Silk did sponsor this post, these thoughts are entirely my own…so for realz, go Silk Soymilk!

Do you drink Silk Soymilk? If so, what’s your favorite type? I need more recommendations :)

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Life Tastes Like Food

Easy Baked Sweet Potato Fries

Silk Soymilk and Startup Life

Easy Smoked Salmon Eggs Benedict with Blender Hollandaise Sauce

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