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Pea Brownies

3/27/2019

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March's theme is "Give PEAS a Chance" here at Veggie Buds Club so we are excited to bring you this delicious and unique pea recipe from Noelle Martin!
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Noelle Martin is a Registered Dietitian and mom of three young boys. She has a passion for education, inspiring, and empowering moms to make healthy choices for themselves and their families. Noelle loves involving her children in food planning and preparation for their home and sees the kitchen as a perfect area for teaching both academic and life skills. Follow @MotherhoodandMeals on Instagram for Noelle's nutrition tips, recipes, product reviews, and motherhood moments.
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Creating a good relationship with food means enjoying treats along the way. I like to add as much nourishment to treats as possible. It doesn’t mean we can over indulge in them. It just means there is some extra nutrition in the serving we take. Here is a fun brownie recipe that you can make with your kids that includes nutrition from peas, avocado, and hemp hearts! If you want to make them peanut free you could use almond butter or sun butter in place of the peanut butter.

Pea Brownies

Ingredients
  • 1 bag dark chocolate chips 
  • 1 avocado
  • 1/3 cup coconut oil
  • 1/2 cup cooked quinoa
  • 1/2 cup frozen peas (thawed) 
  • 1 egg
  • 1/3 cup hemp hearts
  • 1 teaspoon cinnamon
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • 10 dates
  • 1/2 cup peanut butter (or alternate nut or seed butter)
  • 1 cup whole wheat flour
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder
  • Topping: 1/2 cup granola 
Instructions
  1. Mix together dark chocolate chips and coconut oil and put in the microwave for 60-90 seconds. Stir after heating until smooth.
  2. Stir in the egg, and then all other ingredients, except for flour, and blend in a high powered blender or food processor until dates are blended in. Then pour into a bowl and add flour for the last addition.
  3. Pour into a pan for baking then top with your favorite granola. I chose KIND SNACKS peanut butter granola for ours.
  4. Bake at 375 F for about 25-30 minutes (or until a knife comes out clean).
  5. Enjoy with a glass of your favorite milk and a few slices of banana or berries.
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Sugar Snap Pea Boats!

3/20/2019

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We are excited to bring you this month's adorable post from Katie Blauser, the creator of Eat Pretty Darling!
You can join in on lots of pea fun with our "Give Peas a Chance!" Veggie Buds Club box. Your child(ren) are guaranteed to love (...or at least try!) peas after this fun box, learn more and purchase here.
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Katie Blauser is the mama of two boys, wife of a picky eater, and food lover at Eat Pretty Darling. She believes in making food fun, healthy, & pretty! Katie’s not only outnumbered by boys in her little family, but also by picky eaters. She loves trying to find new wys to get both kids and adults to eat healthy while making food pretty yummy, pretty healthy, and pretty fun! Find Katie on Instagram (@eatprettydarling), where she shares colorful and cute food ideas for both picky and adventurous eaters.

Turning food into art can make a once feared food a little more approachable. It doesn’t mean that your kids will automatically eat it all and love it, but they might actually touch it or even try it. The more we can expose our kids to new foods, the more comfortable they can get with them.
My pickiest eater loves hummus and carrots but still doesn’t want to try peas. Having him help me transform the peas into boats made him giddy and he was begging to eat them before we were even done! He took a bite and said the peas were yummy with hummus, but decided he still was learning to like the boat. I’m glad that he can now picture the Sugar Snap Peas as boats and associate it with a fun experience every time they are on his plate again!

How to Make Them

Materials Needed
  • Sugar Snap Peas
  • Hummus
  • Carrot sticks
  • Spinach leaves
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Instructions
  1. Carefully open up the Sugar Snap Peas. Only cut top inside to keep the boat in tact. Gently remove the peas (my kids LOVED helping with this!). Use a plastic bag or knife to fill inside of the pea pods with hummus.
  2. Stick in your carrot mast and line the deck with pea-pole. Rip a spinach leaf in half and stick to the hummus along the line of the carrot to make a sail. Play and enjoy!
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Pea Falafel

3/13/2019

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March's featured veggie is PEAS at Veggie Buds Club! We hope you enjoy this delicious pea recipe from this month's Veggie Buds Club subscription box.
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This recipe was developed by Heather Staller, a mom of two boys, ages 6 and 4, and cooking instructor specializing in bringing cooking into preschool classrooms. After college, Heather knew she wanted to be a teacher, but first followed her lifelong dream of going to culinary school. Teaching cooking combines both of her passions, and she truly enjoys introducing young children to the joys of cooking with fresh ingredients. Find Heather on Instagram (@heather.happykidskitchen), where she shares inventive kid-friendly recipes and ideas for cooking with kids at home.
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Pea Falafel

These falafel patties are packed with peas! Your little chefs will love adding all the ingredients to the food processor, pushing the button, and helping to make the patties with their hands. Not only are they fun to make, but you can enjoy them in so many different ways. Eat them like “nuggets” with Greek yogurt for dipping, in pita bread, or on top of lettuce leaves
with any toppings you’d like. You could even make the patties a little bigger and eat them on a bun as a burger or cook the falafel mixture in a waffle iron to make falafel waffles. Any way you cook them, falafel is the perfect way to enjoy peas!

Ingredients
  • 1 cup peas, cooked if from fresh or defrosted if frozen
  • 1 15-ounce can chickpeas, drained and rinsed
  • ¼ cup Italian parsley leaves
  • 1 tablespoon lemon juice
  • 1 teaspoon garlic powder or 1 garlic clove, minced
  • ½ teaspoon kosher salt
  • ¼ teaspoon cumin, optional
  • ½ teaspoon baking powder
  • 2 to 3 tablespoons oat or whole wheat flour
  • 1 teaspoon olive oil, plus more for cooking
  • Yogurt, pita bread, tomatoes, cucumber, or desired toppings, for serving

Instructions
  1. Add peas, chickpeas, and parsley to a bowl of a food processor. Pulse until roughly chopped. 
  2. Add lemon juice, garlic, salt, cumin, baking powder, and 2 tablespoons of flour. Pulse all ingredients until well combined and finely chopped, stopping to scrape the sides down a couple of times as needed. Form a little of the mixture into a small patty. If the mixture is too sticky, add another tablespoon of flour and pulse again to mix in.
  3. Form the pea mixture into 16 small patties and place on a plate.
  4. Heat oil in a skillet over medium heat. Cook falafel patties in batches, browning on each side then placing back on a plate to cool.
  5. Serve falafel warm with a dip or in a pita pocket topped as desired.
 
To make falafel mixture into waffles, mix in 2 additional tablespoons of flour. Heat waffle iron and grease well. Do not open waffle iron before 5 minutes of cooking. Use a butter knife to gently lift falafel from the waffle iron and transfer to a plate.
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