Category: Vegetables
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Microwave Cooking Broccoli: Best for Flavor & Health Benefits – In Pictures & Short Video
Aside from its fantastic flavor – quick & easy preparation makes all the difference – broccoli has uniquely potent anti-inflammatory, heart health-promoting, cancer-fighting, body detoxification, and antioxidant properties. To get the most of both flavor and health benefits, it’s best to cook broccoli either by steaming it briefly or cooking it quickly in the microwave…
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Brussels Sprouts Chips – Flavorful Alternative to Bagged Chips & All in Pictures
Brussels sprouts chips are an excellent quick, flavorful, and much more nutritious alternative to commercially bagged chips. The hardest part about making these great tasting chips – and it’s actually not hard at all; it just takes a little time – is peeling the sprout leaves as shown above. After that, it’s just add oil,…
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Crisp Corn and Bell Pepper Salad – All in Pictures
Last two posts showed how to cook corn on the stove and in the microwave oven. Easy. Here’s a great way to combine the crisp sweetness of corn with bell pepper (I like using red, yellow, or orange bell pepper for this because they’re sweeter and more flavorful than green bell peppers), onion, garlic, and cilantro.…
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Microwave Cooked Corn on the Cob – Incredibly Easy, All in Pictures
Aside from being incredibly quick and easy, cooking corn in the microwave oven as shown in the picture book recipe you can get here is probably the best way both to maximize corn’s flavor and nutritional value as the corn cooks inside its own husk. Here’s what you need to cook corn on the cob in…
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Stove Cooked Corn on the Cob: Quick, Easy, and All in Pictures
Fresh, crisp corn on the cob; it’s a summer staple and very quick and easy to cook on the stove. Here’s all you need.
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Tomato, Fresh Basil & Mozzarella Salad – All in Pictures
One of my favorite late summer foods is freshly picked, richly flavorful, no-kidding vine ripened tomatoes, which I usually get fresh from the field at Berberian’s Farm Stand in Northborough, MA. And one of my favorite ways to enjoy those tomatoes is in a fantastically flavorful and easy to make salad made with fresh basil…
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How to Take Microwave Cooked Kale From Simple to Exciting – All in Pictures
Last time I showed how to cook kale in the microwave oven, which is a great way to prepare kale both to maximize it’s flavor and not just retain but even boost its terrifically nutritional properties. But eating kale all by itself? Not for me. So, here’s how to take microwave cooked kale from simple to…
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Resetting New Year’s Resolutions & Microwave Cooked Kale In Pictures
I laughed the other day when I heard that February 1st is becoming the new start date for New Year’s resolutions. But then after I let the idea sink in, it began to make sense. By February 1st, the winter holidays and their tempting, flavorful excesses are all over. The football playoffs are over – or sometimes…
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Baked Kale Chips – Flavorful, Nutritious, and All in Pictures
I don’t know what you chose for your new year’s resolutions, but I did see online that losing weight, getting fit, and eating more healthy foods are 3 of the top 10 resolutions people make. I know from personal experience those 3 resolutions are about the toughest for anyone to start let alone maintain for…