I promise that I am going to keep this site up.  I don’t want to abandon it, but I want to make it uniquely me.  I am tired of trying to blog like a number of bloggers out there, so I plan on posting what I want (with in the realms of fitness and motherhood of course:) ) without wondering if this is how someone else is doing it.  It feels better to not always follow the crowd you know?

With that said, I have to post a recipe that I recently made for my family with two goals in mind:

1-It had to incorporate sweet potatoes since I had a couple that I did not want to go to waste

and

2-It had to have lentils in the recipe since I had little to no meat in my freezer, and I was not about to spend anymore money on groceries for another week.

Google came through for me, and I came across the blog The Clean Eating Mama and she had a recipe that was just what I was looking for.  I knew this was a winner in our house when my husband said that he loved it.  This is coming from a man who normally politely eats my vegetarian meals but secretly wishes I would just give up the vegetarian thing.  This will be on our recipe rotation for the next few weeks I think.

Lentil and Sweet Potato Soup

(from The Clean Eating Mama)

Ingredients:

• 2 cups lentils
• 6 cups vegetable stock
• 1 medium onion
• 2 cups diced sweet potato
• 1 T garlic
• 3-4 carrots, chopped
• 3-4 celery stalks, chopped
• 2 T dried basil
• 2 T dried parsley
• 1-2 bay leaves
• 2 T extra virgin olive oil
• 1 tsp salt
• 1/4 tsp pepper