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Recipe: Roasted Butternut Squash with Garlic

We found this roasted squash and garlic recipe in a magazine and altered it to be more healthy – as we do!

All I have to say is “ah garlic!” We love it! We put it in almost everything we cook, in large quantities. We actually thought we used a lot of it until we went to Thailand and took some cooking classes there (yes we’ll share those recipes soon). Our teacher and host put about 12 cloves into one pot of soup. It was great!

Seriously – garlic has long been known for its healing qualities and was at one time thought to ward off not only vampires but the plague too. Cook this roasted squash in the afternoon and your house will smell so great when everyone gets home they won’t be able to keep their hands off it.

Roasted Butternut Squash with Garlic

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Recipe: Garlic Herb Marinated Vegetables

Well I figured it is almost summer here – knock on wood – so best time to have some BBQ or grilling type recipes, with a healthy twist. So here is the first of a couple, let’s start with marinated vegetables. You can eat them as a salad, or put them on skewers and grill them on the BBQ like we did. Either way – they were yummy!

Garlic Herb Marinated Vegetables
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Recipe: Roasted Root Vegetables With Orange Spice Sauce

We love roasted vegetables, especially in the winter and this recipe is great tasting with a zesty orange sauce. I’ve used three of our favorite root vegetables here but I’ll often mix it up and put in sweet potatoes, rutabaga, or even chopped up winter squash like butternut. Feel free to add onions if you’re so inclined also.

roasted root vegetables with orange spice sauce
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Recipe: Roasted Asparagus and Red Bell Peppers With Sesame Seeds

Asparagus has been used from very early times as a culinary vegetable, owing to its delicate flavour and diuretic properties. There is a recipe for cooking asparagus in the oldest surviving book of recipes, Apicius’s 3rd century AD De re coquinaria, Book III (from Wikipedia).

Asparagus rhizomes and roots are used in Traditional Chinese Medicine and Ayurveda to treat urinary tract infections, as well as kidney and bladder stones.

roasted asparagus and red pepper recipe

Asparagus – layout it out on a baking pan, drizzle with a bit of sesame oil and roast for 10 minutes or so at 350.
Test for doneness. Put on a serving plate, add sesame seeds (toast them too if you want) and a dash of lime or lemon juice (fresh squeezed if you have it).

Red peppers – cut in half, take out white bits, place face down on a roasting pan and roast for 20 minutes or so, until the skin starts to blister and turn dark brown/black. Don’t roast too high, 300 or so.

These were delicious the next day cold as a salad too!

Asparagus is low in calories, contains no fat or cholesterol, and is very low in sodium. It is good source of folic acid, potassium, fiber, and rutin. The amino acid asparagine gets its name from asparagus, the asparagus plant being rich in this compound.

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