Good, Bad & Yummy: 1 thing I love, 1 thing I don't & 1 simple recipe

Good: Easy, one-pan meals
Bad: Hydrogenated oil - check your nut butters!
Yummy: Crock pot butternut squash soup with coconut bacon [recipe below]

Recipe details:

In crock pot: butternut squash, green apple, carrot, jalapeno, onion, garlic, spices (cumin, salt and pepper, lime juice). Pour four cups of vegetable stock over those ingredients in your slow cooker. Later: pour one can of coconut milk over that mixture, and you blend it with the immersion blender right there in your crock pot. (You can also use a blender). Now you have a super savory, super easy butternut squash soup right there in your crock pot.

Now you can stop there, okay. And you would be perfectly content. You could top it with some cilantro or some coconut cream, or even a little hint of cayenne pepper. OR...

Top with "coconut bacon" - coconut flakes that you coat with these whisked ingredients: coconut aminos, liquid smoke, and maple syrup. Whisk all of those ingredients together and toss the unsweetened coconut flakes in that mixture, then bake in the oven on a baking sheet until they're sort of toasty (~10 mins) - stir it about halfway through it.

But the idea is to brown them, remove them and let them sit for a few minutes so they can dry out and crisp up. Now you have coconut bacon! A great accoutrement to this recipe.

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