Today it’s snowing the way it used to snow in 1990. The only problem is it’s mid May.
This is not June Lake high up in the Eastern Sierras. We do not get snow this late. Hell, this year we barely got any snow even in January! As soon as my boyfriend and I bought plants and put the boat in the water last week winter reappeared. I remember last mid May I had already spent three separate days swimming at the creek! It’s almost Memorial Day and it’s no where near sunshine and warm days!
I honestly can not remember a time in May that it snowed this hard.
I am so enjoying it! I have had a fire roaring away all day long, bundled up in my leggings, leg warmers and warmest Patagonia sweater. My felines are beyond happy that there has been a fire roaring all day and I do have a little eucalyptus hardwood left.
At the same time I am really, really sad for what this unbelievable spring storm is doing to our local economy. Spring snow is supposed to be good, right? Well, yes, in March when the ski resorts are still ski resorts and have not morphed into mountain bike parks for the summer months.
This weekends plan was to watch the Amgen cycling time trials from the boat on the lake. Yesterday Amgen announced that the time trials are being moved to Santa Clarita instead. This is a giant blow to our economy up here. Most of the hotels in Big Bear should have been booked for the weekend and now all those tourists and cyclists are going to Santa Clarita instead
This recipe was inspired by the amazing breakfast potatoes my boyfriend makes. My good friend Lesandra gave me the hint to use sweet potatoes instead and boom! This recipe just got that much healthier!
Mustard and Turmeric Baked Indian Style Sweet Potatoes with Eggs, Greek Yogurt and Date Tamarind Chutney
1 sweet potato
2 eggs
1/2 cup ghee (or coconut oil)
1 tablespoon mustard seeds, ground
1/2 teaspoon turmeric
1/2 teaspoon black pepper
1 clove garlic, chopped
1 tablespoon ginger, grated
3 tablespoons Greek yogurt
3 tablespoons date tamarind chutney
1 teaspoon parsley, chopped
Peel the sweet potatoes and cut into bite size pieces.
Fry the sweet potatoes in the ghee or coconut oil and drain the excess oil.
In what remains in the pan cook up the garlic and ginger with the potatoes. Add the spices until fragrant. Move the potatoes to the edge of the pan and fry up the eggs in the extra space. Garnish the whole thing with chopped parsley, Greek yogurt on the side with a drizzle of the tamarind chutney.
You can buy tamarind chutney at Ishopindia.com
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What a healthy nutritious recipe that sounds tasty. Thanks for sharing on Real Food Fridays. Pinned & twitted.
Yum! That sounds amazing. I think sweet potatoes lend themselves to curry very well. I’m going to have to try this one! Thanks for sharing on Food & Fitness Friday!
Thanks for the lovely comment! This is my favorite breky this week.
Thanks so much for sharing your awesome post with Full Plate Thursday, I just pinned this recipe it looks so good! Hope you are having a great week and come back soon!
Miz Helen
Hi Amber,
Just a note to let you know that I have chosen your post as one of my features on Real Food Fridays blog hop that goes live tonight @ 7pm EST. Thanks for sharing and being part of Real Food Fridays.
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It’s too bad that event got moved to a different venue, I hadn’t even thought about the effect on the economy when we had that weird weather back in May. But still, as a resident of Northern California myself, I remember thinking I’ll take whatever moisture I can get at this point, lol. 🙂 This recipe looks really unique and tasty, I love sweet potatoes have to give it a try sometime. Thanks!
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Yeah, as much as I love, love the rain, it was kind of a bummer with the whole Amgen thing. maybe next year!
Wow I can’t believe it snowed! It is super hot in the South! I have never cooked with Turmeric, but this looks great and makes me want to try using it!
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Turmeric is such a great healthy ingredient and its so good in so many different dishes!
This looks yummy and interesting. Thank you for sharing!!
Cooking is the best way to spend a snowy day! Open the blinds and just watch outside the windows with some music going as you create in the kitchen – that is a great day in my book!
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Yes, I agree! I love a cold snowy day cooking and baking!
We had a super late and crazy winter here too. It’s definitely gone now and hotter than blazes.
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Yeah, us too. I miss winter.
Wish I werent so picky lol!
I would have cried if we had snow in May!! We had such a long winter but luckily the snow stopped in April I think! We are just getting really hot weather the second week in July! Crazy!