All through the month of January, we did a Veggie Challenge in my weekly newsletter! We worked on increasing our vegetables, diversifying our vegetables, trying a new vegetable and trying a new recipe that included vegetables. The last week, I asked if you would share some of the yummy vegetable recipes with all of us, and HERE THEY ARE!!! I hope you will try some of these and continue to work on all of your goals from last month! Turmeric Rice By: Myka K 1 cup Rice ¼ cup Diced…
Cauliflower Rice with Corn and Green Chile This simple cauliflower rice with corn and green chile side dish truly exceeded all of my expectations! We had been traveling for over two weeks and when we got home I was scrounging in the freezer for dinner. I had a bag of cauliflower rice, some frozen corn and green chile. So, this is what I made! I added a little garlic powder and cracked black pepper and it tasted amazing! So I am sharing my success in this cauliflower rice with corn…
Broccoli Slaw Serves: 6 Cook Time: 0 Prep Time: 15 minutes This week I was trying to make my fresh vegetables last to reduce my number of trips to the grocery store. I had bought some fresh broccoli including the stems and I was steaming the heads for dinner. As I was about to throw away the stems, I started thinking about the waste! Here I was in need of more fresh veggies and I was throwing away a perfectly good part of this broccoli. I started brainstorming and came…
Garlic Turmeric Roasted Cauliflower This simple side dish, garlic turmeric roasted cauliflower is so flavorful! It is packed with wonderful nutrients from the garlic and the turmeric to help boost your immune system. Allium from the garlic has amazing antioxidant, antiviral, and antibacterial properties. The curcumin in the turmeric is anti inflammatory and may help to reduce risk of heart disease and Alzheimer’s disease. Learn more about the benefits of turmeric here. Plus, you get all the good stuff from the cauliflower like vitamin C and vitamin K! Don’t forget,…
Lemon Garlic Roasted Yellow Squash This lemon garlic roasted yellow squash was delicious! It is easy to prepare, about 10 minutes, and really was quite good. I love finding new ideas to put more veggies in my life! I was challenged a couple of weeks ago by one of my clients who asked me for more ideas for side dishes. I was stumped. I realized that my side dishes are often quite boring! I decided to come up with some new, interesting, tasty, and easy ideas for vegetables sides. This…
More Sides Please! I had a request this week from a client for some more ideas for side dishes. This request really got me thinking and wanting to do my own side dishes with a little more flare this week. Today I decided to make my kale into something different and it ended up being truly amazing! There are a couple of tricks to this. 1. Make sure you bake them at a high temperature. 2. The amount of time you bake them for is very important as you don’t…
