Sweet Potato Peanut Butter Swirl Brownies

May 2, 2017

Your dessert just got a serious upgrade with these sweet potato peanut butter swirl brownies! Naturally sweetened with sweet potato and perfectly paired with peanut butter, this sweet treat will up your dessert game ASAP.

I think most people would be surprised to discover that the contents of my kitchen are pretty hack. While, I’m certainly not complaining, most of my kitchen equipment, utensils and flatware are hand-me-downs. From people’s grandmother’s, other family members or when my Mom was finally ready to depart with her back-ups of everything.

The only things that are actually new are my stand mixer (which was a birthday gift from C), a blender (which was given to me by a brand) and an immersion blender (given to me by C’s Mom). For someone who loves cooking, I am incredibly cheap when it comes to spending money on kitchen gear.

C nudges me about this all the time, because I’ll complain that I hate our dishes, that my food processor is 25 years old and that I don’t have a knife that actually cuts. Every time he urges me to go out and invest in good quality kitchen equipment, I have the same argument. And please don’t judge me for this…I remind him that one day we’ll probably get married and register to our hearts content.

Omg I can’t believe I just wrote that publicly on the internet.

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For as shameless as that might make me, it’s true. Even though our dish towels are ratty and my food processor smokes when I use it (yeah I know – no bueno), I’m convinced I can survive just one more year or so with them. But there’s one thing that I reached my limit on, my knives. At this point I’m using an old knife I bought from a dollar store when I was in college and a set my Mom bought me from Costco. They can barely cut a strawberry, let alone a potato. I’ve let out many a scream over the poor quality of my knives.

So when Kamikoto reached out about their Japanese steel knife set, let’s just say I was pretty stoked. I read Anthony Bourdain’s memoir a while ago and actually bookmarked his recommendation to only buy Japanese steel knives. I had planned to put that on my future registry (lol).

But here’s the thing, when the knife set arrived, it was like the clouds opened up and I looked into the eyes of the knife god himself! All those years of complaining went out the window. I could cut a butternut squash without having to microwave it first. And didn’t have to ask C to cut my potatoes because they needed superhuman strength.

I finally discovered what it meant to have a knife that works!

Now there are certainly a lot of things in my kitchen that I can learn to live with. I may hate our hand-me-down plates, but they work. As for the stuff that didn’t, like our knives, I really wish I had invested in a nice knife set years ago. It honestly has improved the quality of my experience in the kitchen and made chopping a breeze.

I also now know exactly what to get people as a wedding gift, because this set legit changed my life.

So if there’s one thing to invest in, in your kitchen, let it be your knife set…and maybe a food processor that doesn’t appear like it is going to blow.