Glade Christine - Garden Candy Basics: Getting you more into vegetables by getting more vegetables into you!

Garden Candy Basics 2014 by Christine Glade & Laura Amicucci. All rights reserved.

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Welcome to Garden Candy

What is Garden Candy?

G arden Candy is a collection of easy-to-follow, and budget-friendly recipes that include vegetables.

When it comes to getting (and staying) healthy, one of the easiest things you can do is add vegetables to your diet. The more you eat, the healthier you will be. Its really just that simple. Vegetables contain an abundance of vitamins, minerals, fiber and other nutrients that build healthy brains and bodies. Plus, they help fight against cancers, heart disease, diabetes, and other illnesses.

G arden Candy contains tasty ways for you to enjoy your favorite veggies, try new ones and re-visit vegetables you think you dont like by preparing them in a new way.

• Garden Candy is simple to follow, arranged by the main vegetable in each recipe.
• Garden Candy is sensitive to your budget and your hectic schedule.
• Garden Candy is a handy reference with information on how to cook each vegetable without a recipe.

What Garden Candy Isnt:

• Garden Candy is not a vegetarian cookbook. You can still enjoy that juicy burger or that awesome bacon. Garden Candy just helps you include more vegetables and balance your meals for better nutrition.
• Garden Candy isnt snobby about food. Were not suggesting the food you buy has to be all organic, locally bought, or fresh from the farm. Canned and frozen vegetables are welcomed here and our recipes call for them right alongside the garden-fresh variety.
• Garden Candy is not complicated. You dont need a lot of special kitchen tools, advanced cooking skills, or hard-to-find ingredients to make these Garden Candy recipes.

Ways to Use Garden Candy:

• Garden Candy is organized by vegetable. Swipe through the recipes and see whats here. Theres a photo of each finished recipe. When you see a recipe youd like to try you can bookmark it for later.
• When you find a certain vegetable available at the grocery store (maybe on sale!) or fresh at the farmers market, or in your garden, you can quickly search for that vegetable in Garden Candy to find a recipe - or just directions for ways to cook it alone.
• With Garden Candy on your smartphone, its pretty much always at your fingertips so if you forget how long beets should roast, just go to the beets section in Garden Candy.
• Use the timer feature on your smartphone to remind you when to check on your cooking, or alert you when the cooking time is up.
• You can also use your e-readers highlight and note features to make your own notes in the recipes you try. Plus many e-readers have built in dictionaries so you can get definitions for unfamiliar words.
• Use the hotlinks within Garden Candy to visit the MyGardenCandy.com website where youll find even more information on cooking with vegetables, shopping for and storing vegetables, even growing vegetables indoors and out. Plus you will find bonus recipes along with useful tips and hacks that make including more veggies in your life, simple, affordable and fun.

Now lets enjoy some Garden Candy!

Beets

You Cant Beat Beets

Sweet beets are filled with powerful nutrients to fight cancer and heart disease and their edible leafy greens have plenty of Vitamin C and calcium.

How beets grow in the garden:

Beets and Sweets

Ingredients:

6 medium beets, peeled and cut into chunks

2 tablespoons olive oil

1 teaspoon garlic powder

teaspoon salt

teaspoon ground black pepper

1 teaspoon brown sugar

a pinch of cayenne pepper

3 medium sweet potatoes, cut into chunks

1 large sweet onion, chopped

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 400.
2. In a medium-sized bowl, toss the beets with tablespoon of the olive oil to coat.
3. Spread in a single layer on a baking sheet.
4. Bake beets for fifteen minutes.
5. While the beets are cooking, mix the remaining 2 tablespoons of olive oil, garlic powder, salt, pepper, brown sugar and cayenne pepper in another bowl.
6. Add the sweet potatoes and onion to the mixture and mix well until everything is combined and the potatoes are well coated.
7. After baking the beets for fifteen minutes, remove beets from oven and mix sweet potato mixture with the beets on the baking sheet.
8. Return pan to the oven and continue baking about 45 minutes, stirring the vegetables after 20 minutes.
9. Remove from oven when all vegetables are tender.
10. Serve warm.

Serves 6

Beet Soup (Borscht)

Ingredients:

8 beets

8 cups water

1 can low sodium tomato soup

1 teaspoon dill, chopped

3/4 cup low fat sour cream

Directions:

1. Scrub beets well.
2. Put beets in large pot with the 8 cups of water.
3. Bring water to boil and then reduce to simmer and cook beets until tender (about 45 minutes.)