how do i incorporate my fave. fruits and veggies into full meals?

Question

i love fruits n veggies. it just gets old eating just corn, just green beans.. etc. how do i make them into meals?

veggies :corn, green beans, potatoes, carrots
fruits: strawberries, bananas, pears, watermelon

also, i'm looking for healthy meals.

Answer 1

well, green beans go well with mustard, I swear, delicious. Potatoes are great in omelets, omelets in general can be veggie heaven! (Mushroom, spinach, garlic/ Tomato, scallion / Potato and pinto beans), as for carrots, those are great marinated in a bit of orange juice and molasses, or puree with ginger some milk or nondairy beverage a pinch of salt for soup, To jazz your potatoes you can vary the types and do mashed potatoes, even sweet potatoes. You can do corn salad with fresh tomatoes, celery, peppers, cilantro, lime juice, avocado, black beans and barley or rice. With fruits, there's poached pears in raspberry sauce, Pear charlotte which you could make with old whole grain bread, I know it sounds wierd, but banana omelets are delicious... fried bananas are good, or baked bananas topped with chocolate chips and frozen yogurt, you can throw some strawberries on stale multigrain bread, sprinkle some sugar on top and blaze it with a culinary blow torch. If you go to allrecipes.com you can do an ingredient search and type in ingredients you'd like in your meal recipe and igredients you wouldn't like, it's pretty helpful.

Answer 2

Corn salad: Mix canned corn with 1 can black beans, drained. Add chopped red onion, bell pepper, tomatoes, and cilantro. Dress with a dijon vinagrette.

For potatoes you can bake them and put beans, cheese, and/or chili on them for a satisfying meal; or twice-bake them, which means you bake them, cut them in half, scoop out the innards and mash them with herbs and cheese, refill the skins, and bake again. Yummy and filling.

Then there's green bean casserole, which I don't like particularly so I dont have a recipe for you.

Fruits:
There's always fruit salad, or you can grill pears and roast bananas (in foil). Or make a fresh strawberry sauce. If you have an ice-cream maker, sorbet is da bomb for desserts. Watermelon you can't do much with,it's got too much water in it to cook.

For all of the above, though, there's also fondue. Cheese fondue for the veggies and chocolate fondue for the fruits.

Answer 3

2 servings
Time 2-3 hours (to freeze)
Tools plastic wrap
juicer or blender

Ingredients 2 ripe bananas
½ c walnuts, chopped

Directions Peel and chopped bananas, wrap in plastic, and freeze for several hours.
Unwrap and process in juicer or blender. Stir in walnuts and serve.

Notes For a thinner consistency, add some orange or pineapple juice. Also see my smoothie page.
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