InstantPot: Sausage and Cabbage

Ingredients:
1 tsp coconut oil
1 package of nitrate free beef sausage, sliced
1 small head cabbage, cored, chopped
1 cup water or broth (chicken, vegetable, or beef)
Salt and pepper to taste

Instructions:
1. Select Saute on InstantPot. Add 1 tsp of coconut oil.
2. Add sliced sausage into pot when pot is hot. Cook about 2 minutes, stir it around. Cook another 2 to 3 minutes. Remove with slotted spoon.
3. Add chopped cabbage. Stir it around after a minute or so. Add broth. Stir. Add sausage. Add pepper and salt (desired amount, but don't go too crazy). Secure the lid.
4. Select Manual, High Pressure, for 3 minutes.
5. When time is up, select Quick Release. Be careful. Use a wooden spatula for that (I am still nervous), and open the lid toward you so you shield your face and the steam will escape on the other side.

Serve over brown rice.

This yields 4 servings.
2 green, 1 red, 1/4tsp oil.

Counts as a vegetable, tastes like a carb.

Let's talk food.

Superfood.

That's the buzz word these days, isn't it?

Well, earlier this week, I bought a whole butternut squash. I have been buying the ones already cubed in a bag but this week, I was feeling brave and bought the whole thing. I wasn't sure what to do with it. But nothing Youtube and Pinterest can't fix.
Youtube and Pinterest are my go-to problem-solvers these days. It started with "How to give a newborn a bath" three years ago. And it is has morphed into "How to take apart (car seat model) to wash" and today, "How to prepare butternut squash."

So I cut it apart, scoop the seeds out, quartered it and slice the skin off, then, I cut into cubes.
Toss it in a big pan, drizzle a little olive oil, and bake at 350 until tender (about 30 minutes).

Since I'll have enough to eat for days, I went ahead and had some for breakfast.
I got a serving, threw some peanut butter over it, drizzle some raw honey, and sprinkled some cinnamon. Hello Morning!!


Here is the nutritional comparison between butternut squash and sweet potato I found on Popsugar. I love sweet potato. But since it is considered a carb when I am following my meal plan, I like to find "substitute." Butternut squash tastes almost like sweet potato to me. So, this was a no brainer. Butternut squash counts as a vegetable but it tastes like a carb.

There you go. How do you like your butternut squash? Share any recipes with me.