{"id":6239,"date":"2024-03-04T21:44:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-04T21:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/?p=6239"},"modified":"2024-03-04T21:44:00","modified_gmt":"2024-03-04T21:44:00","slug":"a-quick-green-hack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/a-quick-green-hack\/","title":{"rendered":"A Quick “Green” Hack"},"content":{"rendered":"

Don’t get me wrong. I love winter’s root vegetables, cabbages and squashes. But being pretty sturdy vegetables, they need to be cooked quite a while which can leave them rather . . . pale looking. So here’s a quick hack that solved the problem.<\/p>\n

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Before:<\/strong> Here’s my dish of red cabbage, rutabagas, potatoes and parsnips. Perfectly tasty and nutritious, but pale.<\/p>\n

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After:<\/strong> But look what happens when I add green peas to the equation. The dish looks all cheery and inviting.<\/p>\n

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And how long does it take to pop some peas in the microwave? About 4 minutes! So just keep a bag of green peas in the freezer and give this hack a try. Since we “eat with our eyes” and mouths, you’ll likely enjoy more satisfaction–plus more nutrition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Don’t get me wrong. I love winter’s root vegetables, cabbages and squashes. But being pretty sturdy vegetables, they need to be cooked quite a while which can leave them rather . . . pale looking. So here’s a quick hack that solved the problem. Before: Here’s my dish of red cabbage, rutabagas, potatoes and parsnips. … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","masonry-post","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-50"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6239"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6243,"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6239\/revisions\/6243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}