So far today has been a bust on the veg front, I've had many pickles with my lunch sandwich and a lonesome tomato slice. Hopefully dinner will get me closer to the 5 cups a day. The hard part is going to be learning to replace some other foods with the vegetables instead of just eating more.
Update: Dinner-
One of my favorites, "3 Times the Crunch Salad"
1.5 - 2 cups baby arugula
1 cup of asian cucumber slices (they're sweeter, but not too thinly cut about 1/4 in)
1/3 cup radish slices
1 cup blanched asparagus, cut into bite size pieces
2 tbsp parsley, chopped
- all in all about 4 cups
blanch the asparagus and mix it all together while it's still warm. Salt to taste, dress with white balsamic vinegar and grapeseed oil to barely coat.
The salad crunches very nicely. The sweet cucumber, bitter radish, spicy arugula and mild asparagus go great together. The vinegar adds just a little acid to balance it all out.
No comments:
Post a Comment