Ratatouille-Inspired Summer Veggie Dish. Every time we go to the farmer’s market, I always curse myself for not making a list, or at bare minimum, planning a couple recipes to guide my purchases. I always make a list for the grocery store, but for some reason it never occurs to me to make a list for the market. I either leave empty handed or I buy everything in sight – there’s rarely a happy medium. This weekend though, I seemed to get it just right. We found ourselves at the Burlington Mall farmer’s market and by some miracle, I came prepared with a few recipes in mind – Bread and Butter Pickles, Zucchini Bread, and Homemade Salsa. These are all long-time favourites, but two are new to my own recipe repertoire. In the end, I ended up with a basket of perfectly ripe tomatoes, 3 huge zucchini, raspberries, and pickling cucumbers. Just enough to round out what was already waiting in the fridge back at home! After spending much of the morning making recipes, a quick and easy meal was in order.
Print, Email, or Text this recipe 1. Cooking Guide For Veggie-Lovers (Infographic) The Mediterranean Secret to Phenomenal Vegetables. 15 Super-Simple Recipes To Help You Eat More Greens. Leafy greens are some of the healthiest foods you can eat, since they're loaded with beneficial nutrients like folate, calcium, magnesium, and potassium. Leafy greens include spinach, kale, arugula, chard, collard greens, mustard greens, dandelion greens, cabbage, and others.
Generally, heartier greens like kale, chard, and collards are more nutrient rich than greens like lettuce, but all leafy greens contain chlorophyll, which may help support detoxification in your body. Browse this list of easy ways to incorporate leafy greens, and choose the ones that work best for you: 1. Add spinach or kale to an egg scramble, omelet, or frittata. 2. This is a perfectly nutrient-rich side for just about any meal. 3. These kale chips are quick to make and easy to store for later, these are a great healthy snack. 4. Add toward the end of cooking time of your favorite soup, and the greens won't taste bitter, but will instead absorb the other flavors of the soup. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. Avoid These Veggies – Even if They’re Organic. Avoid These Veggies – Even if They’re Organic by DR MERCOLA Fruits and vegetables—apparently even organically-grown varieties—may have cow-, pig-, and chicken collagen coatings on them rather than wax, as well as a number of other unsavory ingredients.
Wax was first applied to the skins of fruits and vegetables for longer shelf life hundreds of years ago. Today, that tradition is being carried on with a new generation of chemicals and compounds I’d rather NOT have on my fresh produce… Modified Atmospheric Packaging While I normally do not feature blog posts, this instance is a rare exception, as I thought this Reality Blog report contained quite a bit of worth-while details. In response to one of the videos above, this blogger dug up information about so-called ‘modified atmosphere packaging‘ that could offer one potential explanation for the bizarre plastic-like coating found on lettuce: Edible “Invisible Packaging” is More Common than You Might Think Is it Safe to Eat?
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