Meals that will even make KIDS eat SPINACH!

The two key ingredients to maintaining a healthy diet are viewing food as nutrients and medicine for your body and having fun eating and cooking at home.

The Oprah Winfrey Show recently hosted Jessica Seinfeld , and she promoted her new cookbook “Double Delicious.”  I LOVE this cookbook because most of the recipes are healthy and easy to prepare.

Jessica adds pureed vegetables into every recipe!  Pureeing is an excellent way to “hide” healthy food as a way to trick picky eaters into giving their bodies essential nutrients for optimal living.

James and I decided to have a little fun for the beginning of the year and cook every recipe in the Double Delicious cookbook!  So far, we cooked about 15 recipes from the book and they are ALL delicious. 

We cooked a cinnamon bun recipe that, believe it or not, had pureed sweet potatoes and cauliflower as key ingredients!

 I only minimally modify the recipes in Double Delicious and most of the time the main modification is adding MORE of the pureed vegetables than the recipe requires.  The concept of pureeing is awesome, but in her recipes, she only adds between 1/4-1/2 cup of pureed veggies for meals that yield 6-8 servings.  Increasing the quantity of puree doesn’t alter the taste of the recipes (most people don’t even notice the puree) and the body gets more of what it needs!

Enchilada prep- this meal lasts 2-3 dinners!

Chicken Enchiladas is our favorite recipe (so far) from the book- this is a great recipe to use up the extra home made salsa from the Funky Tortilla Casserole

Sweet Apron Jimmy!

Click here to print the Chicken Enchiladas recipe:  Chicken Enchiladas