Veggie Quest is coming to you live from the beach this week with a spa-fresh end-of-summer treat: cucumber-lime popsicles with fresh mint and cantaloupe. Yes, it’s been a grueling week here on the Outer Banks. Every morning I’ve had to take in the gentle breezes blowing off the Currituck Sound and … [Read more...]
3 Fast & Healthy Ways to Enjoy Jicama Sticks
Jicama sticks are my new best friends. (Perhaps I need to get out more?) Crunchy, sweet, and juicy, these guys are fun to munch and taste great with whatever you happen to have on hand. They also contain fiber and vitamin C, and retain their attractive, creamy color for up to a week when stored … [Read more...]
Hitting the bar for salad inspiration
As you might imagine, eating salad every day this month has forced me to look for inspiration in unusual places. Here's my new favorite: the self-serve bar at Whole Foods Market.I know—finding salad ideas at a salad bar, who'd have thunk it? Hear me out, though. The self serve-bar at Whole Foods … [Read more...]
Jicama, Pineapple, and Fresh Mint Salad
I have to say, I’m quite proud of myself—in honor of National Salad Month, I’ve had a salad EVERY day in May so far! (Yes, all four of them!) Truly, I feel accomplished—even with Veggie Quest, it’s still hard to eat vegetables as often as I should. Are you trying to eat more salad too? Here’s a … [Read more...]
Roasted Purple Potatoes: The End of the Veggie Rainbow
Despite the extra time I put in over the last seven days for Eat the Veggie Rainbow Week, I think I'm actually going to miss it. (At least a little.) While I'm ready to get back to some of my regularly scheduled vegetables, eating by color was a great way to stretch my veggie boundaries and enjoy … [Read more...]
Green Zucchini Gazpacho
This zucchini gazpacho is spring in a bowl: fresh, vegetal, and the vivid green color of newly sprouted fescue. At first bite, it's mellow and lightly sweet, thanks to the raw zucchini and celery. But wait a moment and your tongue will start to tingle—that's the arugula and garlic talking. As you … [Read more...]
Roasted Garlic: Thursday’s (Creepy) Treat
I should have tried roasting garlic a long time ago, but it seemed like a lot of hassle for a lowly accoutrement. However, since garlic is white when raw and a mellow tan/gold when roasted—just the color combo I needed for Thursday of Eat the Veggie Rainbow week—I decided to give it a go. As it … [Read more...]
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...]
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...]
I'm Lee, an RD thriving on a healthy plant based diet.