300+ Recipe Digital Cookbook
"I spent 10 years creating and testing recipes for this cookbook, it's my proudest creation!"
300+ Recipe Digital Cookbook
"I spent 10 years creating and testing 1000's of recipes for this cookbook, it's my proudest creation!"
- Mariel, Author & Founder
One of the most challenging and rewarding activities I have done this year has been the Bodybuidling.com Employee Transformation Challenge. My husband works at BBcom and he entered the challenge. I love to be a part of all things my hubby does, so of course I had to jump on the same boat and do the transformation along with him. I sort of knew it would be a big commitment, but I never expected it to rule over my life for three months.
Our days looked something like this:
- Wake up and do 25 minutes of fasted morning cardio
- Go to kitchen and eat oatmeal and coffee
- Go to the gym and do 1-1 ½ hours of weight lifting and cardio
- Speed home, get ready for work and drive like a maniac to make it on time
- Work and make sure I ate my boring meals every 2-3 hours
- Drive home, cook and prepare our meals for the next day
- Sleep out of exhaustion
- Wake up and repeat
The hardest part by far…our boring, cleaner than clean, meals. We had to eat super healthy with the trainer we were following: broiled or grilled protein, veggies, and slow digestive carbs (yams, oatmeal, brown rice, brown pasta). Blah. Every single meal we were limited to these and only these things. Meals got boring after day one. We survived ninety days of them. Ninety. Our trainer program didn’t allow the fun Paleo stuff! We couldn’t have fruits, nuts, and we had to reduce fats to only protein fats.
But you know what…the results were so incredibly satisfying that I forgot all about the boring meals and the tough workouts. We rocked our transformation. Preston won second place. He looked like a superhero. I couldn’t technically participate because I wasn’t an employee L, but I was very proud of myself and my results! Body fat went from fifteen percent to nine percent, and my abs were so cut that I could probably hold a piece of paper in between them when I flexed. Ok, that was a weird visual.
I started eating Paleo right after the trainer was over. And seriously, it was the best.thing.ever. No joke. Are you kidding? I could eat bacon? And fruits? And nuts? Whaaaaa? Heaven.
Our favorite Paleo dinner appetizer was either yam fries or bacon. But how, oh how do we combine the two? We knew we needed to figure that one out since it was sort of a lot of work to stuff them in our mouths one at a time. We wanted to savor both at once. One night, we got enlightened. Boom, just like that. Yam fries wrapped with bacon strips. They lasted, um, about 30 seconds. Three large yams entered our bodies faster than the oven could cool off. Give my Bacon Wrapped Yam Fries a try, they won’t disappoint.
Bacon Wrapped Yam Fries
- Total Time: 30 mins
- Yield: 4 servings 1x
Description
Crispy baked bacon wrapped yam fries that are caramelized on the outside and tender on the inside.
Ingredients
- 2–3 medium yams
- 10–20 strips of uncured bacon
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 425 F.
- Cover two baking sheets with parchment paper and set aside.
- Cut yams onto 1/2 inch sticks and cut every bacon strip in half.
- Carefully wrap bacon strips around yam sticks and place them on the baking sheets, without crowding the pan. If you run out of bacon, place yam sticks by themselves for them to bake as well.
- Bake fries, turning once and rotating pans once, until edges are lightly browned, around 15-20 minutes. Fries are done with the surface looks crispy and the fries and bacon have puffed up a bit. Serve immediately along with ketchup or favorite dip.
- Prep Time: 10 mins
- Cook Time: 20 mins
- Category: Side dishes
- Method: Baking
- Cuisine: American
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