I am always talking about food with vibrant colors and bright flavors. I also talk about colors not naturally occurring in nature. I also form redundant sentences?
This time of year, we see all kinds of foods made green. Green beer, green pancakes, even green fortune cookies.
Wait, green pancakes? I know, pancakes aren’t generally green, but mine are green because of the spinach, not an artificial food coloring. That is the one exception you’ll see here, everything else is … naturally green.
Since they remain one of my most popular recipes, and they are that exception, and since I just love them so much, I could not start a green food conversation with anything other than these:
maple roasted beet salad with vegan ‘goat’ cheese
quinoa bean burgers with basil aioli
grapefruit kale chiffonade salad
spinach blini with pimiento spread
lemon avocado massaged kale salad
chocolate cherry mint smoothie – or “The Hulk”
what is your favorite naturally green food?
… if you want to see more – green food for St. Patty’s Day!
Cheers – have a fantastic weekend!
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I was JUST thinking about this yesterday while being bombarded with ads for foods that just shouldn’t be green. If only people ate naturally green foods year round! My favorite? It’s hard to choose, so I’ll have to go with broccoli, asparagus and avocado, probably in that order. I eat all three of them every day
P.S. I nominated you for the Vegan Woman’s Vegan Blog of the Year, so if your readers have a minute, I encourage them to go over there and nominate you as well ( I know you won’t promote this yourself…) You deserve it!
well GOSH *blushes* thank you, my dear. that just made my day.
I love when you do these because it remind me of all the deliciousness I bookmarked to try. LOL! Those wasabi PB cups must happen soon.
yes, they must. and I have a new truffle recipe coming soon… another SPICY one.
One of each please! I really need to make the green pancakes and that beet salad looks fantastic. Love me some kale
Happy Friday – wishing you a calm, relaxed day my dear.
What a beautiful round-up! Everything looks incredible and I am still dying to try those pretty spinach pancakes! Hope you have a wonderful weekend, my friend!
thank you, Faith!
So you started this post with vibrant and colors and bright flavors. Well every single picture exemplified that. Very impressive.
Hope all is well with you and your dad.
thank you, Meagan – we are getting there. <3
wowza.. thats a load of options! whenever i see those green spinach patties i am taken by that vibrant green!:)
Green (real green!!) is good!
I think I first discovered your blog because of those pretty green pancakes
aw, Aggie that is good to know! (many have come here by way of the spinach pancake…). REAL green IS good!
Naturally green does rule! It always cracks me up when folks try to cover up the green in green smoothies. There’s nothing more beautiful than green smoothies in my opinion and I love it best when they have that vibrant green taste, too.
Great roundup per usual, Kristina! Have a wonderful St. Paddy’s Day, my friend!
xo,
Shirley
I completely agree, Shirley – the bright green is much prettier than the brown hue that is the result of cover up attempts
and I love the taste of green, too (I think this could be one of my mottos, actually…)
hope you are having a great week, my friend!
I’m pretty sure that you already know all about my love for your spinach pancakes.
Everything looks super delicious- but the wasabi peanut butter cups… I need to get on that!
you do – they are so good! and yes – you are one of the Spinach Pancake Fans
Last year to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day I brought my students naturally green foods, like cucumbers, grapes, and green apples. You’d think they would have been upset not to have another articificially dyed green cupcake, but they were SO happy with the fresh fruits and veggies. [In fact, there was a bit of a riot over why one section got to have cucumbers and they were 'stuck with' grapes. WHAT?!?!]
wow – that is INCREDIBLY awesome. so SO awesome.
Green food is the best…especially when it is natural! You know me, I throw spinach in practically EVERYTHING!
I love it when you do little round up posts like this…always reminds me of the things I still need to try of yours. And I’ll be darned if I didn’t forget about those cauliflower steaks yet AGAIN! Ugh!
well, get on it, girl – the cauli steaks are SO GOOD, one of our favorites… I always get good feedback on these roundups (people always say they are good reminders!) and I always find something I need to make again too.
Hi Kris, please write a cookbook. I will buy it for sure!!!!
Your recipes are so fantastic, and your pictures are stellar. I love kale..massaged kale salad with fruit is my favorite green food at the moment. Hope your week is going well.
oh, Roz!! that is a project in the back of my mind… I hope to find time soon to think about it. you know, I have had a cookbook in my head LONG before my blog began?
massaged kale is still one of my favorites – and I do love it with fruit! my week is getting better every day – I hope yours is as well, my friend!