Straight from the Garden!

by Shelby Miller

Just a short share with you all on what I ate today, and how simple it was prepare.  I began my morning in my garden where I selected three nice sized leaves from my Brussels sprouts plants - about 8 inches in diameter.  I then went on to pick some snow peas, cut some beet greens, a few smaller Swiss chard leaves, and some fresh dill weed (approximately 1 loose cup, including the tender stems).  I then washed all of my garden finds and packed in reusable containers for my lunch.  From the fridge, I threw in about 1/2 cup of leftover hummus, 1/2 cup each of left over brown rice, pinto beans and around a 1/4 cup leftover carrots from last night.  At lunch I then spread each Brussels sprout leaf with equal parts of hummus, then I topped with slivered carrots, fresh snow peas, rice, beans, beet greens, chard, and the dill weed. Oh - I also had sweet grape tomatoes that I halved and threw on top of all of that. I wrapped those up tightly and enjoyed three very healthy, yummy, flavorful wraps - and the bonus, it was really very filling allowing me stay satiated.

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This month I am really enjoying the fresh taste of dill so on my way home from work I decided that when I got home I would go back to the garden for more greens and dill.  I then cooked some potatoes in the pressure cooker and mashed them with the dill once cooked through.   As I sautéed the greens I also added some of the dill at the very end so it could just wilt just a little.  I decided to whip the potatoes with some of the cooking water, and a handful of fresh dill weed with my handheld blender.  I put potatoes on 1/2 my plate with fresh ground pepper, the sautéed greens on the other half, and feeling like I needed a grain, I sprinkled about a 1/4 c brown rice over it all.  Like a little child, I mixed it all up while eating it!  

​This is the fun of whole foods plant based eating - it is very easy to throw things together and it is very difficult to mess it up.  I have left over potatoes and leftover greens so I could very easily turn that into a shepherd's pie if I wanted, but I think I'm just going to throw it all into one bowl and take if for my lunch tomorrow!

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