Posts Tagged carrots
Thai shrimp spring rolls with peanut sauce and citrus soy.
These springs rolls are an excellent, healthy lunch (or dinner) option and are a breath of fresh air from your normal turkey sandwich or grilled chicken salad. The homemade sauces really add flavor and round out the dish. From the original site: Thai spring rolls with peanut sauce and citrus soy.
Spaghetti and Meatballs
It’s yummy spaghetti and meatballs with veggies built into the meatballs and tomato sauce. No fighting with the kids (or hubby) to eat their veggies! From the original site: How to make awesome spaghetti and meatballs with a hidden serving of vegetables. Our trick? Pack the meatballs with grated carrots and zucchini. Aside from being healthy, carrots add natural sweetness while zucchini adds gr…
Vegetable Stir Fry with Orange Ginger Sauce
“All of these vegetables need to be eaten before they go bad!!” Sound familiar? We went to visit my man’s parents for Mother’s Day and had just gotten my organic produce box the day before we left. I contemplated taking the whole box with me, but it wouldn’t have fit in the overhead compartment, so we took a few apples and the prized mango and sadly left the rest in the refr…
Vegetable Pasta Italiano
I just love a meal I can throw together in a few minutes. This is super easy and makes use of prepared organic marinara sauce. I’ve tried it with all kinds of pasta sauces and you just can’t go wrong. I add veggies to it and prefer to leave them chunky, but my sister always “hid” the veggies in hers by pureeing them so her kids wouldn’t know there were veggies in there. Som…
Carrot Souffle
[ed- Easter's coming! Dawn brings us a great idea to get your kids to eat Carrots!] I am NOT a fan of cooked carrots. Never have been. A few years ago my Step-mother hipped me to the Carrot Souffle at our local chain Cafeteria and I’ve been hooked ever since. In the past I’ve just called in and ordered a huge pan of it to take home. Last year I decided to find a recipe to duplicate the dish and perfe…
Whole-grain carrot and cheese crackers
This was an experiment loosely based on a recipe I saw over on foodtale.com. She drew me in with her beautiful photographs and intrigued me with her carrot and cheese snack crackers. I wanted to do something similar, but use whole wheat flour and flax-seed meal to increase the nutritional benefits. I was afraid a straight substitution would result in a dry, dense batter. “What would whipped egg w…
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