The Creative Kitchen loves when people tell us to eat our broccoli – especially when it’s Organic Andy Boy Broccoli! While kids love the interesting textures and bright green hue, adults love to hear about the cancer-fighting qualities of broccoli. A single serving is rich in vitamins C and K, which is another reason to have the family enjoy!

Enjoy Andy Boy Broccoli in your favorite vegetable-packed dish! We love this delicious Broccoli Cranberry Salad, featured on Andy Boy’s website! Check out other recipes at www.andyboy.com!

Ingredients:

2 heads of Andy Boy broccoli, cut in small florets and cooked

3/4 C refrigerated slaw dressing

1 C package sweetened dried cranberries

1 C toasted pistachios

Salt and pepper, to taste

Directions:

1. In a medium bowl combine Andy Boy broccoli, dressing, dried cranberries, pistachios, salt and pepper.
2. Mix well, cover and refrigerate until ready to serve.

Serves 8-10

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The Creative Kitchen™, LLC, teaches children about food and how to cook in a fun, safe, and educational manner. Targeting families with children ages two to teen, the company focuses on teaching, writing creative content and curriculum, special events, recipe development, spokesperson work, webisode production and consulting to present educational and entertaining content through food-related activities. The founder, Cricket Azima, is an expert in cooking for and with children. She inspires kids to express themselves creatively through food and cooking, while complementing lessons with traditional educational material such as social studies, math, arts, science, and more. Visit www.thecreativekitchen.com for more information.

A common misconception about cooking is that in order to create a truly delicious and healthy meal, you have to buy dozens of ingredients and spend hours in the kitchen chopping, mixing, baking, and preparing your ingredients only to be completely exhausted afterwards. Our friends at Cooking Light prove that this isn’t the case at all! This Tortellini, Chicken, and Arugula salad comes together in a cinch thanks to the use of a few quality items such as hearty cheese tortellini and shredded rotisserie chicken. Prepare the dressing and pasta ahead of time to make the final assembly even faster. Who knew making dinner on busy weekday nights could be so easy?

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Instructions:

Tips & Trick:

• For a gluten-free option, substitute the tortellini for brown rice pasta or quinoa.
• Kids can help shred the chicken and mix the dressing!

The Creative Kitchen™, LLC, teaches children about food and how to cook in a fun, safe, and educational manner. Targeting families with children ages two to teen, the company focuses on teaching, writing creative content and curriculum, special events, recipe development, spokesperson work, webisode production and consulting to present educational and entertaining content through food-related activities. The founder, Cricket Azima, is an expert in cooking for and with children. She inspires kids to express themselves creatively through food and cooking, while complementing lessons with traditional educational material such as social studies, math, arts, science, and more. Visit www.thecreativekitchen.com for more information.

When the temperature rises, we just love to keep meals light and fresh. So you can imagine how excited we were when we found these perfect summertime recipes. You could even say we heard it through the grapevine!

We were also pleasantly surprised to learn that Concord grapes contribute to healthy circulation and provide some memory benefits.

Check out two great ways to enjoy the heart-healthy goodness of Concord grapes… short of serving wine to kids! Eeek! Serve them up at your next summer cookout, you’re guaranteed to get rave reviews! After all, have you ever met a kid (or adult!) who doesn’t love grape juice?

• 2 cups Welch’s® 100% Grape Juice made with Concord grapes
• 1/4 cup fresh lime juice (about 2 limes)
• 2 tsp fresh lime zest (about 2 limes)
• 2 tsp fresh ginger, fine grated
• 1 1/2 cups fresh green grapes, seedless, stems removed
• 1 1/2 cups fresh pineapple, peeled, cored, bite-size pieces
• 1 1/2 cups cantaloupe, peeled, seeded, bite-size pieces
• 1 1/2 blackberries, washed
• 3-5 fresh green grapes, seedless, on stem

Preparation

1. Place grape juice in a heavy saucepan over medium high heat. Bring to a boil and immediately reduce heat to medium low. Allow juice to simmer on low until reduced by half (12-15 minutes). Remove from heat and cool (5 minutes).
2. Stir lime juice, zest and ginger into warm grape juice. Pour juice into a container, cover and refrigerate. Prepare in advance to allow flavors to combine and juice to cool.
3. In a trifle bowl or clear container layer fruit— starting with grapes, pineapple, strawberries and cantaloupe, ending with blackberries.
4. Pour chilled grape, ginger and lime syrup over fruit, cover and refrigerate for 30 minutes. Syrup will color the fruit purple and create a bolder flavor the longer the fruit sits in the syrup. 

Prep time: 20 minutes

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