In keeping with Eat the Veggie Rainbow week, I'm eating something yellow: golden bell pepper strips with hummus.However, since it's rainy and dreary outside, I decided to turn my yellow bell pepper into a cute, sunshiny flower before devouring it. I'd hoped to make my flower look like this: Image by … [Read more...]
Archives for March 2011
Quick and Easy Coconut Pumpkin Soup (Orange You Glad It’s Tuesday?)
Knock knock! Who's there? Orange. Orange who? Orange you glad it's Tuesday so we can eat coconut pumpkin soup? (Me too!!) _____ Quick and Easy Coconut Pumpkin Soup The basic pumpkin soup recipe here is my own, borne of having lots of pumpkin stashed in my … [Read more...]
Red Hot Monday: Fast Broiled Grape Tomatoes
They may not be exotic, but broiled grape tomatoes are delicious, fast enough to make on a weeknight, and decidedly red—the perfect veggie to kick off "Eat the Veggie Rainbow" week! Better yet, if you like a show with dinner, when grape tomatoes broil some of them get so steamed up they erupt, … [Read more...]
Eating the Veggie Rainbow for National Nutrition Month
Photo credit: Eric Rolph. Source: English Wikipedia I was munching on a Butterfinger and surfing my favorite food blogs when I realized that I’d almost missed National Nutrition Month this March. (No, the irony wasn’t lost on me.) For those who don’t know, National Nutrition Month (NNM) is … [Read more...]
Weird and Wonderful Avocado Chocolate Peanut Butter Pudding
You know you want to try pudding made out of chocolate and peanut butter…and avocados. OK, well, at the very least I know I want you to try it—because the experience of tasting this pudding for the first time is downright bizarre and I think you'll get a kick out of it. Your taste buds expect … [Read more...]