Summers Most Versatile Vegetable

This vegetable may remind you of a cucumber but it is actually a member of the squash family. Zucchini can be found green in color like a cucumber but there are also yellow varieties as well. Zucchini can be stir fried, steamed, baked or even eaten raw and are a great compliment to other vegetables [...]

Easy Eggplant Steaks

What You Need:
1 eggplant, peeled and sliced into 3/8 inch slices
1 bottle Italian dressing
How to Make It:
Heat the grill to medium hot temperature.
Place the eggplant slices into a shallow bowl and cover with the dressing.
Turn the eggplant to coat well with the dressing.
Let the eggplant stand in the dressing for at least 15 minutes allowing [...]

Awesome Asparagus with Vinaigrette

What You Need:
1 red bell pepper
2 garlic cloves
4 tbsp olive oil, divided
1 tbsp red wine vinegar
1 tbsp fresh basil, chopped
1/4 tsp salt
1/4 tsp pepper
1 1/4 lbs. fresh asparagus, trimmed
How to Make It:
Preheat the grill for medium temperature.
Roast the bell pepper on the heated grill for 10 minutes or until charred, turning often.
Remove the pepper and [...]

Tomatoes Fruit or Vegetable

Tomatoes are typically classified as a vegetable but because of the seeds, is really a fruit. The reasoning behind classifying them as a vegetable is to avoid confusion with other countries that have import duties. Tomatoes can be eaten in many different ways, both hot and cold.
Tomatoes have only been eaten in this [...]

Crisp & Fresh Lettuce Storage Tips

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You’re hungry and you know there’s something you’re craving. Ah a salad is what you want. You run to the fridge, open the vegetable crisper only to find the lettuce you bought 2 days ago is brown and mushy. Ever happen to you? It happens more often than not.
Here are a few storage [...]

Liven Up Your Salad with Fixings

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What’s the first thing that comes to mind when you want to fix a salad? You’re probably thinking lettuce, tomatoes, cucumbers, cheese and dressing right? Boring! Salads don’t have to be boring. Liven up your salad by adding all different kinds of scrumptious fixings. Wondering what those fixings might be? [...]

What Keeps a Salad from Being Healthy?

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Almost everyone loves a salad. All that lettuce and those favored toppings, makes your mouth water just thinking about it doesn’t it? Yet many of us ask ourselves if the salads we’re eating really are as healthy as we think.
First you have the lettuce. Lettuce is healthy but doesn’t have much [...]