The quintessential springtime salad! Can you just imagine this recipe’s tiny sweet strawberries bursting in your mouth? Soft, gently flavorful leaves of spinach, fresh from the ground? With a bit of bite from the onion and some satisfying give from the pecans? Thank you, lowfatveganchef.com, for the original version of this recipe.
Category Archives: Recipes
YOUR HEALTHY PLATE: Spring Peas with Walnuts and Dates
A celebration of spring! If you can’t decide whether to get the snap peas or the snow peas, or maybe those beautiful little spring peas, here’s a recipe that will let you use all three. From foodnetwork.com.
YOUR HEALTHY PLATE: Chicken Cacciatore
If, like many of our friends this week, you’re getting ready for a huge onslaught of guests to celebrate a commencement of one sort or another, think about putting a recipe like this in your slow cooker. The very process of slow cooking blends and brings out flavors, caramelizes and smoothes the natural sweetness in ingredients like tomatoes, and generally turns what was previously a very nice recipe into something entirely more subtle and sublime. Try this chicken cacciatore, in honor of Ann’s graduation.
YOUR HEALTHY PLATE: Spinach Pesto Pasta
Here’s a special pasta dish with a gorgeous rainbow of colors. The original recipe comes from vegweb.com. Continue reading
YOUR HEALTHY PLATE: Tropical Smoothie
Every time you find a little bit of overripe fruit on your counter, peel it and put the fruit into a container in your freezer. Once you’ve collected enough to make this recipe, dance a little jig and say a “hail merry” because it’s HailMerry.com who came up with the original version of this recipe! Continue reading
YOUR HEALTHY PLATE: Deviled Eggs with Crunchy Veggies
Probably my favorite thing to do with leftover eggs…. I especially love to serve them on a special egg-shaped plate with 12 indentations, one for each deviled egg.
YOUR HEALTHY PLATE: Veggie Frittata To Go
Here’s my slightly embellished version of a lovely recipe from Lauren at Eat Drink and Be Hopeful. Enjoy your spring eggs, and do your best to get ones with deep yellow-orange yolks that sit up high on the egg whites like little sentries perched up high! You can be assured that the deeper the yellow-orange color, the more nutritious the eggs and the happier the chickens who laid them.
YOUR HEALTHY PLATE: Cinnamon-Chocolate Walnuts
This nutritious and delicious dessert comes to YHIOYP courtesy of Wendy Bazilian @eatmovebe and at wendybazilian.com, author of The SuperFoods Rx Diet. She calls this a super-easy recipe that you can adapt to your own tastes. It’s a simple recipe, with nuts and chocolate to nourish and satisfy your heart, mind, and taste buds! If you’re planning on a special dessert for a special dinner, this one is a great choice.
YOUR HEALTHY PLATE: Springtime Pea Soup
Whenever I enter the home of my friend Deena there is always something remarkable burbling on the stove. She says that she adapted this soup from the Barefoot Contessa, but I think it’s equally likely that Ms. Contessa gets her best ideas from Deena.
YOUR HEALTHY PLATE: Asparagus Leek Soup
This extremely elegant recipe comes from the incomparable Mark Bittman, at Kitchen Express and the NY Times. Enough said. Continue reading