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-Winston Churchill

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-Taylor Caldwell


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-Albert Einstein


Tuesday, July 2, 2013

Help! There are veggies exploding out of my fridge!

That's how I felt this weekend, so I decided to do something about it.  Most of yesterday, and a good part of today have been taken up with prepping, cooking, and storing a bunch of food.

First, I made a bunch of spring rolls (my new favorite treat) with avocado, mango, lettuce & our own garden's mint leaves.

This one had some issues, so I decided to gobble it up first.


Then I made a brown rice & bean, tex-mex kind of salad.


But- to use up the bulk of those exploding veggies, I made veggie fritters for the second time in a month.  These are definitely NOT low cal, but they are soooooo yummy.

I took a bunch of kohlrabi, some carrots, some broccoli, some green beans, some snap peas, some parsley, an onion, garlic scapes, and possibly some other veg that I've forgotten.  I chopped up a giant bowl full of veggies and then ran them through the food processor in several batches.  A couple batches I pureed pretty well, then I left a couple of the batches a little more chunky.  I poured those in a mesh strainer over the sink and pressed them to drain out some of the fluid.  

I put the pureed veggies in a big glass bowl, and mixed in enough eggs and gluten free baking mix and almond meal to make it stick together and look like this.


Then I poured some olive oil in the frying pan and let it heat up a bit.  Then I dropped scoops of the batter into the pan and flattened them out with the back of the spatula and fried them until they were dark brown on both sides.  These are very delicious, especially with a little Goddess Dressing drizzled on top.


To placate the picky people, I also made a pot of my homemade chicken noodle soup.  It does smell really tasty.


I also washed, chopped and bagged 4 heads of lettuce for easy use in salads.  Now I'm tired and don't feel like doing anything else!  Lol!

1 comment:

  1. Way to go! I've been doing lots of similar activities lately. Canning strawberry jam today actually. Glad we're having company for the 4th and we might be caught up on eating greens! :)

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