Tag: Colored Vegetables

TIP OF THE DAY: Pasta Made Tricolor With Veggies

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Mediterranean Pasta With Chicken. Photo courtesy Urban Accents.   Doesn’t this pasta dish look more exciting than a conventional red-sauced plate? It uses vegetables to make “tricolor pasta” instead of pasta colored green and red with spinach and tomatoes. Tricolor pasta—green and red plus white—looks appealing in the bag but typically fades when cooked. So…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Rainbow Vegetables

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Baby carrots move beyond the familiar orange to purple, red and yellow. Photo courtesy Sprinkle Side Up. See her recipe for glazed rainbow carrots.   In picking up supplies for our “diet Oscars menu,” we came across rainbow baby carrots—our first sighting—and rainbow cherry tomatoes, which have been available in our market for a few…
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