Stuffed Sweet Potatoes

My goal is to EAT REAL FOOD and to only buy what I need when I  go grocery shopping. This week, I bought food for three vegetarian meals that I wanted to try.

I did the shopping Thursday evening, so that night I made the easiest one. Minestrone soup (from a can) and grilled cheese sandwich. The soup was only OK, and a homemade version would have been better. For the sandwich, I used fresh mozzarella, and a Mediterranean olive spread, to help the flavors match the soup. It was nice and melty. Yum.

The really exciting meal was last night though. It was based on a recipe on Skinnytaste (Loaded Baked Sweet Potato) and it was so good.

Basically, you take a sweet potato, and bake it the microwave, then stuff it with Mexican-style toppings. I added a little more black beans, and didn't add taco seasoning to the yogurt, because I didn't think it was necessary. Also, her way seemed like a lot of work. I basically cooked the potato, then added the beans, salsa, green onions and let it absorb in a little. Then I added  a little cheese and some greek yogurt. I also cut up some avoccado and red onion, but ended up eating those separately.

I had a hard time getting a decent picture of the results. This one was the best. 

 

The thing is, I was a little unsure. But the sweet potato makes a really good base. It is much more moist that a regular baked potato, and mixes in really well with the toppings. I'm not sure about a sweet potato with bacon on top, but I bet a more traditionally loaded potato would be yummy too. I'm never going back to boring whites again!

Now to eat the leftovers...