Well, sorry for the week(s) delay. Maybe I shouldn't have chosen the week before finals to start a new blog but you know....anything to keep my mind off studying I guess!

Even though it's been pretty busy around here we still managed a few new recipes and made a few yummy discoveries :)

Honey Apple Butter! What! Yes!

I found this little delicious gem at Trader Joe's. It isn't super point friendly but not too bad I have been enjoying it on sprouted grain toast or in oatmeal. It also worked well as a tasty dessert. We mixed mangos, blueberries, and honey apple butter and spread it over angle food cake. A very good low point after dinner option. Yum!

In our last veggie box we got fava beans. Hummm....needless to say I wasn't brimming with ideas of how to prepare them. I decided on a simple salad.

They are kind of pretty inside actually.

Start by shelling and boiling the beans for about one minute.



Remove from water and place immediately into an ice bath. This stops the cooking process and keeps the beans firm, not mushy (like mine came out..oops..)


You then have to peel them once again, they are a little labor intensive but believe me it is worth it in the end.

The recipe called for various things but we used fava beans, cilantro, dried onions (because I did not have green onions which would have been good also, olive oil, lemon, salt, and pepper.

The salad turned out surprisingly good. I liked the flavor of the actual beans much more than I expected to. This will be in our rotation for sure!

I occasionally talk to other ladies who try and "hide" "mask" "whatever" other veggies in sauces and soups to encourage others in their household to eat a little more variety. Here is how I make my spaghetti sauce more Deceptively Delicious.

• One jar Ragu-I know I'm a bad Italian but who has time for sauce from scratch...really...
• 1 cup steamed, blended, and frozen green beans
• 1/2 cup steamed, blended, and frozen broccoli (the red in the picture is some frozen sauce I had left over)
• two chopped zucchini (if you really have a picky eater peel the zucchini it is harder to see that way
• 1 lb of ground turkey breast
• I cooked all of it (except for the turkey I which I pre-cooked) in the crock-pot for a few hours and easy as pie, dinner was done.
  

Lastly, tonight's dinner wasn't particularly "healthy" but it was fun! To celebrate our 1 month wedding anniversary we had pasta and chicken we froze and saved from the wedding night. It was super yummy. Complete with one extra little furry guest who missed the original event.See you soon

K