Pantry Tacos and Turmeric!!

I had a purple and an orange sweet potato laying around, so I decided to make sweet potato fries and try dipping them in some of that agave mustard hummus dressing I'm in love with. I seasoned the sweet potatoes with salt and pepper, turmeric, cayenne, and garlic powder.

The dressing was the perfect dip. It has a tang from the mustard and also apple cider vinegar, and that goes really well with the sweet potatoes. This dressing is soooooooo good! I want to experiment with a pasta salad using this dressing. I always feel so healthy after eating sweet potatoes, especially the purple ones, it seems like every day I read an article about the health benefits.
For dinner, since it was Tuesday and all, I made pantry tacos! I had an avocado that neded to be used, and I still need to use the tofutti sour cream, so it all spelled taco!

I just heated up some pinto beans with some frozen corn and some taco seasonings, and had tacos topped with avocado, tofutti sour cream, and salsa with tapatio of course. To be honest, I feel like the tofutti and avocado together was too much. Next time I'll choose one or the other.
I also wanted to share a recent experience I had with the healing benefits of turmeric. On Sunday, I woke up with the biggest pain in the back of my knee. I couldn't bend it without severe pain, and it was a little swollen. I have no idea what happened, it literally happened overnight. I didn't know what to do, I don't have medical insurance(never have as an adult) and to be honest it was scary. I went around my morning as usual, and decided that maybe taking a walk would help. It did not. I got home and it was worse. To bend it at all like to sit made me actually yelp in pain. I was getting really scared and upset, it really sucks to feel so scared and helpless. Anyway, I remembered that I had some turmeric root in my fridge, along with a small knob of ginger root. I blended the two and made a really powerful mix. I drank a shot of it Sunday, and also used turmeric on all of my food that day. Monday, I woke up to pain, but a lot less. I did another shot on Monday, as well as adding powdered turmeric to my food, and adding turmeric root to my green juice. Yesterday it was even better, and I had turmeric in my green juice, and turmeric with my breakfast. Today I would say I'm about  90 to 95%. Here is a great article about some of the amazing benefits of turmeric if you're interested. I'm no doctor, hell I can't even go to a doctor, but I know what I experience in my own body, and it seems giving myself a high dose of turmeric really sped up the healing process. Because Sunday was a very painful day for me. I'm noticing that turmeric root is becoming more and more available at regular groceries. It looks like ginger, but skinnier and a little darker. And powdered turmeric is super easy to find. It's easy to add a dash here and there to food because it has such a mild flavor. Anyway, I am a believer!
Happy Wednesday!