Good morning!
Today is my day off and I am very excited for the day ahead! It felt so good to be able to sleep in this morning. I slept ‘til 8am and felt nice and rested when I got up.
I never showed you all the veggies Eric brought home the other night…straight from his coworker’s, in law’s veggie garden…
They are an Italian couple and you don’t say no to Italians with an over-flowing veggie garden. Eric said he told them he didn’t need anything and he left with 4 bags of produce!!!! lol. Apparently, the coworker’s father-in-law wants to help us build a veggie garden! We are thinking of building one in 2011.
Eric came home with celery, zucchini, basil, tomatoes (best tomatoes ever!), 5 bunches of kale, and jalapenos.
So. much. kale.
So curly!
The kale proposed and I said yes!
Eric said I should have carried kale down the aisle at our wedding. I think he’s onto something here….veggie bouquets!
Not surprisingly, we decided to use up a ton of veggies for dinner last night! Our fridge is so full it is busting at the seams.
Anything Goes Veggie Roast
Ingredients:
- 4 carrots
- 1 yellow squash
- 1 zucchini
- 2 cups Okra
- 1 cup Sugar Snap Peas
- 4 potatoes
- 3 Swiss Chard leaves
- 3 Jalapenos (kept on the side as Eric doesn’t like them)
- 3/4 tsp Kosher sea salt
- 1/2 tsp Herbamare
- 2 tbsp cold-pressed sunflower oil
- Freshly ground black pepper, to taste
Directions: Preheat oven to 425F. Wash and chop all veggies. Place chopped veggies on 2 greased baking sheets. Drizzle oil over top and massage into veggies to spread evenly. Sprinkle on sea salt, Herbamare, and freshly ground pepper. Bake for 30 minutes. Remove from oven and flip veggies and bake for another 35-40 minutes until golden brown and slightly crisp. Serve and sprinkle on additional sea salt if necessary. Dip in ketchup and enjoy!
Massaging in the sunflower oil to coat the veggies:
We had it with ketchup on the side for dipping and it was superb! We especially loved the Okra and potatoes. Just lovely.
I was so pleasantly surprised by the Okra…it is so good. Almost similar to a zucchini in taste. When I compare a veggie to zucchini I mean that it is mild and the taste would blend into virtually anything. Okra would be amazing dipped in some sort of batter and baked to a crisp!
I proceeded to make a delicious dessert that I will be telling you about in my next post…
Breakfast this morning was another smooth as silk Purslane Green Monster…
It included: 3 cups Purslane, 1 cup almond milk, 1 tsp maca, 1/4 cup frozen blueberries, 1 large frozen banana, 1/2 scoop Amazing Grass Wheatgrass powder.
And a piece of Chocolate Blueberry cake. This is a healthy cake made with spelt flour, blueberries, ground chia seed, maple syrup, cocoa powder, etc….and delicious.
Sometimes on your Sunday morning, you just need a little cake and Purslane.
The recipe for this cake will be in tonight’s post! Stay tuned.
Eric and I are off for a brick workout now. Other plans for my day off include reading EPL, cleaning, meeting girlfriend for tea, working on online print shop, chopping veggies for the week ahead, and some travel planning. Should be a good & busy one!
Enjoy your Sunday! See you tonight.
That cake looks amazing – looking forward to the recipe. :)
I am also from the South, and fried okra is amazing, especially if the okra are sliced first. I think Kath has a recipe for battering and baking okra with cornmeal.
Those tomatoes are gorgeous! So is that cake! I can’t wait for the recipe.
That is more kale than I’ve ever seen in real life. (read: I have never had kale before.) Yhis fact saddens me greatly.
Wei Wei
Fried okra is a southern U.S. specialty! I had it the first time when I moved to Texas. It seems like it’d be gross (it does have a mushy quality that KERF loves) but it’s sooo good. Emily at The Front Burner blog has a recipe for oven “fried” green tomatoes that I really want to try, and I bet the same recipe with bite-sized chunks of okra would be AMAZING as well! Cruncy on the outside, soft on the inside.
Haha! There was Kale in with my wedding flowers! All the guests loved it and it looked beautiful!
That big veggie roast looks so delicious! I never think of doing something simple like that for supper, but I can see one happening in my very near future.
“Sometimes on your Sunday morning, you just need a little cake and Purslane.”
Haha this line cracks me up, because only in the healthy living blogworld would this line be totally applicable, and have people nodding in agreement. :)
I can’t wait to see the cake recipe — it looks so rich and divine!
I wish my husband had a coworker like Eric–I’d love for him to bring home bags of produce! You definitely know how to use up all those veggies though!
Enjoy your day!
OK, I can’t wait for the cake recipe tonight. My dad’s birthday is in 2 weeks and I’m planning on baking him a cake!
I’m so excited to enjoy a day off too! What an amazing vegetable bounty – the tomatoes and kale look especially tasty.
Your everything goes veggie roast looks sooo yummy. I <3 Veggies!
aw, your kale bouquet looks very cute! :)
we converted about half our back yard into a veggie garden this year, and it’s one of the best things we’ve done! we’ve always made a point of eating veggies, but we now eat so many more because they’re coming out of our ears! give them good soil and some water and they practically grow themselves.
those peppers don’t look like jalapenos. they look more like banana peppers, which are milder than jalapenos and really tasty!
Mmm, that dessert looks GOOD. Cant’ wait for the recipe :-D
It must be an Italian thing to have a large vegetable garden. My grandpa (Italian side) also has one and every time we go there for dinner we’re sent home with zucchinis and green beans. He would probably send basil, too, but he gave me my own plant :-)
Ooo i want cake!
Wow, lucky you to get all those veggies!!
I can’t WAIT to see your cake recipe – it looks soooo good. :)
I just love your blog!
Lately, even when I’m not online much, I find myself just typing in Ohsheglows in the address bar, and going straight to your site because I know there’ll be a new post to cheer me up (going through some tough stuff right now :( )
The way you eat and your approach to life is what I aspire to! Even though I’m mostly raw, my family still eats the standard American fare. Your diet is sort of that happy medium that I’d like to bring my family to eventually. I don’t know if they’ll ever give up meat, but I’ve reduced the portions and I try to go organic when possible.
You should definitely consider a garden! It’s a challenge, but can be so rewarding.
Cake in the morning… I love it! :D
I can’t wait for that dessert, it looks amazing!