Just gently heat thru so as not to
cook the veggies too much, they should have a little crunch still.
Not exact matches
Just made this for dinner — I'm eating semi raw at the moment so
cooked the sweet potato (and added some parsnip
too), then marinated the mushrooms in olive oil and balsamic vinegar, wilted the spinach with salt and a bit of chilli before adding to the
cooked veggies.
It couldn't be easer to make
too, all you have to do is slice up the
veggies,
cook them with coconut oil for ten minutes and then mix them in with some buckwheat noodles, dried herbs, tahini, lemon juice and tamari.
I halve the ingredients as I only
cook for two and even though I usually lack one or two of the
veggies (I've replaced chickpeas with lentils before and have completely left out spinach and / or aubergine once or twice as well) the flavor is always spot on and not
too spicy for me (probably because I use almost the full amount of sweet potatoes....
Once you complete all of the prep it
cooks so quickly and you can include lots of protein and
veggies, making for a relatively healthy meal (especially compared to take - out, though I love that
too!).
My go to is a big bowl of steamed organic broccoli (doesn't take
too long to
cook as long as I've got it all chopped and prepped beforehand — I often chop
veggies in the morning ready for dinner) dressed with olive or macadamia oil, turmeric, dulce, Himalayan salt and pepper.
You can
cook millet without any
veggies too, just with some vegeta like ordinary rice.
OK, here are some favorites we've been
cooking up at my place: - vegetable curry (grind my own whole spices, use whatever
veggies we get in our weekly CSA share; radishes / beets, eggplant, squash, greens, etc)- quick kale (sauteed with coconut oil, chili flakes, garlic, [lemon grass], soy sauce, lemon juice)- pac choi w / sauteed mushrooms «chinese» style (with fish sauce, rice wine vinegar, jalepeno / chili, soy sauce, etc)- roasted radishes w / poached eggs - «teamwork pasta» — this is your recipe for pepper and cheese pasta, but it helps having two sets of hands to make it in our house... we put an egg on this
too of course - tuna pasta (chopped onion, garlic, lemon zest, chili flakes, tuna, olives — easily adaptable to what you already have in the house and like)- roast chicken on friday - roasted sweet potatoes - omlets - challa french toast
It's just personal preference but it's really hard to get
veggies in the crock pot at the right time and not
cook them
too much.
UPDATE [3-27-16] So I want to say this right now so it's very clear and I said it above
too: You can absolutely EAT crucifer
veggies if you want, they are superfoods, they should be STEAMED or
COOKED and that will eliminate the goitrogenic substances.
It has 6 different seeds (not counting the peas which are technically seeds
too), and a few slightly
cooked green
veggies, tossed together in a light lemony garlic vinaigrette.
Turmeric is also a great addition to curries, soups, roasted
veggies and ginger tea; I often
cook my grains with a few dashes
too, waking up pale rice, quinoa and millet with a golden glow.
I used to be intimidated by stir frying,
too, but mostly because I used to always overcook the
veggies — took me a while to figure out it's a fast
cooking process and not to let the
veggies hang out
too long in the pan.
So when we went on a camping trip that July, the idea of chopping
veggies and
cooking brown rice on our Coleman stove sounded like
too much of a pain.
I think Chicken is the easiest to
cook and so many ways to prepare it, soups are easy and lots of basic
veggies too.
We're not talking about a wet, braise - y,
cooked - to - death situation here — though we absolutely love
veggies cooked in that way,
too.
I usually just
cook with fresh
veggies, but I think frozen
veggies are great
too.
Veggies are good for you, but some cooked and pureed veggies are just too much for an infant's digestive systems t
Veggies are good for you, but some
cooked and pureed
veggies are just too much for an infant's digestive systems t
veggies are just
too much for an infant's digestive systems to take.
Also keep on hand practically instant, emergency dinners for when youre
too tired or famished to
cook, like Amys Organic frozen meals or ingredients for mini pizzas (whole - wheat pitas with shredded mozzarella, frozen
veggies, and marinara sauce).
Although the process of
cooking eliminates a significant amount of the nitrite in vegetables, when
cooked veggies are left at room temperature for
too long the bacterial processes will cause a greater accumulation of harmful nitrite.
We may even look at cutting out phenols and salicylates, and even peeling and / or really mashing and
cooking our vegetables well, and even avoiding raw
veggies,
too.
And if you must
cook during the hotter parts of the day, make it go a bit faster by cutting
veggies into small pieces or
cooking things that don't take
too long, like eggs on the stovetop or
veggies that can be quickly steamed.
If you worry
too much about the nutritional value in raw vs.
cooked veggies, you run the risk of eating fewer vegetables.
This usually just involves some chopping of
veggies and it doesn't take
too long, but it saves a lot of time when I go to
cook them the next night.
I
cook the chicken with some celery (the leafy part,
too), carrots, onions and chicken bouillon cubes, which adds a nice flavor, and then discard all the
cooked veggies once the chicken is done.
UPDATE [3-27-16] So I want to say this right now so it's very clear and I said it above
too: You can absolutely EAT crucifer
veggies if you want, they are superfoods, they should be STEAMED or
COOKED and that will eliminate the goitrogenic substances.
The 3 kiddos liked it
too (even good for the baby because flavorful but not
too spicy, and can
cook the
veggies until soft enough for a baby to chew, if you prefer).