Recipes:
Okra Creole
Creamy Baked Corn
Easy Italian Spinach
If you're seeking ways to add vegetables to your diet, then harvest a few of these recipes. Frozen vegetables provide many nutrients and also offer convenience, affordability, and great flavor. Okra Creole, for example, brims with fresh-from-the-field goodness, while Creamy Baked Corn will satisfy your craving for corn pudding--all without having to slice, shuck, or scrape.
Cold Facts
- Freezing vegetables helps maintain their flavors and textures. In addition, frozen vegetables often retain more nutrients than those on the produce aisle.
- Frozen foods lose quality more quickly in a refrigerator freezer that is opened more frequently than in a chest or upright freezer.
- Do not refreeze thawed frozen vegetables.
- Purchase packages that are firm--avoid those that are limp, wet, or sweating. Also bypass packages that are stained by their contents or that have ice on the outside--this indicates the vegetables may have been thawed and refrozen.
"Start With Frozen Vegetables" is from the October 2002 issue of Southern Living.
