By Rhonda Campbell
Winter is a great time to stay indoors spending quality time with family and friends. You can cook your favorite dishes, perhaps even barbecuing on an indoor grill, and watching an exciting football game on television while your friends “bad mouth” your favorite team, laughing and kidding you. Some of your best memories may be created then.
Healthy winter food you’ll love eating
Whether you realize it or not, food is a major part of many of you most memorable events. Eat the right healthy winter food and you will not only delight your taste buds, you could also keep your energy levels high and sleep better at night. Recipes that are tasty and healthy as well as help keep you warm run the gamut, coming from all cultures.
Minestrone soup that’s sprinkled with pesto croutes is filling, hot and tasty. Ingredients in
minestrone soup are onions, celery, potato, tomatoes, cabbage, sage, beans, pesto and parsley. It takes less than an hour to cook the soup.
Another great winter soup is potato and leek soup. If you love potatoes, you’ll love this soup. In addition to needing plenty of potatoes, you’ll also need butter, parts of leek, an onion and milk to prepare potato leek soup.
A healthy winter food meat lovers delight is a baked chicken dish that uses dried cherry tomatoes, pesto and fresh basil. In place of dried cherry tomatoes, you could add sweet red peppers. Chicken also works well when added with a pot of cooked vegetables.
To get a popping taste out of cook vegetables, start with fresh vegetables. If you toss in several handfuls of green, leafy vegetables, you’ll have plenty of chances to chew your meal, something that could keep you from overeating even as temperatures drop outside.
