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Its All Green for St. Patty's Day

 Beth Ann
Posted by Beth Ann Bentley on Mar 16 2009
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Looking for some ideas for green colored foods to serve on St. Patty’s Day? Look in the produce section, it is filled with green. Cut up a tray full of assorted green veggies: celery, asparagus, broccoli, green beans, endive leaves, and sugar snap peas. Make a very green dip with plain whole milk yogurt, garlic, and spinach.

Ingredients:

  • 1 cup plain whole milk yogurt
  • 2 cloves garlic
  • 1 cup frozen chopped spinach, thawed and well drained
  • 1 tsp sea salt
  • 1 tsp ground black pepper
  • 2 tsp dried dill weed
Directions:
  1. Put all the ingredients in a food processor and process until smooth. Season to taste with more salt and pepper.
Variations: Replace the spinach with a cup of fresh parsley, cilantro or basil and remove the dill from the recipe.

If you absolutely have to have green cookies or biscuits please use a food based green die and not the artificial food coloring. When I was doing a bit of research for this blog, I came across a website for a company called Seelecttea. They seem to have the biggest selection of organic vegetable based food coloring I could find.
  • Here are the ingredients for their green coloring: Vegetable and Plant Extract (no Chlorophyll)
  • Here are the ingredients for a popular brand of green food coloring: Water, Propylene Glycol, FD&C Yellow 5, FD&C Blue 1 and Propylpwaraben (Preservative)
Which would you prefer to use?

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green dip By Unknown on Mar 24 2009 at 3:17 PM
what a great way to incorporate more veggies
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By Unknown on Apr 02 2009 at 8:11 PM
This sounds yummy!
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