Sour cream swap-out

Just like everyone else who likes to eat, make and wear, I'm all over Pinterest. I love it! It's awesome! It has great tips for working out, amazingly delicious (and sometimes healthy) recipes, tips and tricks for keeping a clean and organized house and inspiration for everything.

So far, I've only actually made one of the 168 recipes pinned to my Food board. So which of these very special 168 recipes did I feel compelled to make?

Chipotle Chicken Taco Salad
This was actually a pretty successful recipe. It was delicious and easy to make and the flavors were varied so it stayed interesting. (You know sometimes when you eat a salad and the flavors are blended all together and so it gets bland fast? This didn't do that.) The only drawback was actually finding the canned chipotle chile in Adobo sauce. But that fun little scavenger hunt may have been a result of the strange order in which our local International Gourmet Giant shelves its ethnic foods. (This is also the same Giant that has valet parking. It's a very bizarre place.)



Now, if you take a look at my Food pinboard, you'll notice that there quite a few non-recipes. These are things like "place a wooden spoon across a pot of boiling water to keep it from overflowing," icing colors-by-number, tips and tricks and work outs. (Notice how I pin the exercise stuff onto my Food board. Other people have boards devoted solely to working out, but I know I'll never look at those pins again if I do that.)

One tip that I have read over and over, but never pinned is swapping Greek yogurt for sour cream. After the initial, "what? Ew. Bleh!" response, you start to consider the possibilities while dipping your spoon into your daily morning breakfast of Greek yogurt and scrolling through the pins you missed while you were sleeping.

Last night, I finally tried it. Of course I had regular sour cream right next to it at the dinner table in case it turned out to be incomparable. Despite this safeguard, I never used the sour cream. I ate my taco salad with yogurt! They're very similar in taste and consistency so why does that seem weird? Well, frankly, just because it does. Who thought to try that? Whoever it was, I'm glad they did because now I can have the flavor and the cool contrast and none of the fat! And you can try it on the recipe above! Bon appetit!