At Conveniently Natural, we make vegetables taste sexy.
What we do to vegetables is the equivalent of taking Ugly Betty and making her over to look like Pam Anderson. Boring, awkward, and mundane becomes sleek, fun, and sexy. How in the world do we do this, you ask? And more importantly, how in the world can you do this? I can assure you there is no invasive augmentation or chemically-laden fragrances. We don’t “sweat” our vegetables for countless hours on a high-speed vegetable treadmill. Below are 3 things we do to make our vegetables taste sexy. Please steal these for yourself. Just like Justin Timberlake said, we’re bringing sexy back…to our plates.
1. Give them Confidence: We’re not afraid to let our vegetables stand on their own stalk and stem. They don’t need to be puréed and hidden in a sauce or baked into a batch of brownies. When we treat them right without masking their natural flavors with chemicals, their organic personality comes out to play, to heal, and to make you love them.
2. Spice It Up with a Little Variety: Did you know that carrots can be chopped, diced, and julienned? So many sizes and shapes and we often get stuck in a rut of making our favorite recipes using the same cuts of our veg. BORING. Get out of your routine and try something new. I guarantee you it’s a difference experience to eat Brussels sprouts finely chopped (or food processed) than the way your mother made you eat them whole.
3. Spice It Up with a Little…Spice: We have full spice shelves so we can play Extreme Veg Makeover every week. Spices are a big part of making veggies sexy. Dress them up in something new this week. Here are 3 ways to spice up your green beans:
a. Green Beans Almandine (featured on last week’s menu): mix with equal parts tamari sauce, sesame oil, and olive oil, then add a few shakes of cumin and cayenne pepper
b. Curried Green Beans: stir in 1 part of curry, ¼ part turmeric with a clove of garlic and splash of coconut milk to your skillet of green beans
c. Lemon Pepper Green Beans: simply add lemon pepper spice or fresh squeeze your own lemon with ground up peppercorns
Vegetables aren’t so different than you and me. Making them sexy is similar to making ourselves sexy. In our unofficial kitchen poll, I discovered that the majority of heterosexual men find dang near all women sexy. Period. Regardless of high heels or flip flops, makeup or not even a shower. Now if we can only give vegetables the same consideration…
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