Spring Veggies & pancetta

photo credits: Jessica Raytselsky

People should eat more veggies and fruits. They are yummy and help contribute to better health. I personally love eating veggies and fruit. I find fun and creative ways to mix veggies and fruit into my diet. If that isn't enough for you. In the article, New evidence linking fruit and vegetable consumption with lower mortality from the University College London. The article explains how eating fruit and vegetables contribute to lower mortality. The studies conducted found that people were less likely to die at any age if they ate fruits and vegetable reduced death by cancer and heart disease by 25-31%.  Here is a fun recipe I have created on my own that makes eating veggies fun!

This week I would like to share with you a personal recipe that I came up myself without any help from a recipe. It is a wonderful spring veggie recipe to get your veggies in for the day. When I came up with this dish Just mixed it all together and it came out very delicious and fresh. It's sauteed spring vegetables & pancetta. Inspired by spring and all the yummy fresh vegetable you can use in spring or summer.

 I have made this with different veggies every time just to mix it up. In this particular recipe I used green beans, corn, broccoli, mushrooms, sweet onions, garlic and herbs like thyme and basil. Definitely feel free to mix up the veggies to your liking. For my vegetarian friends you can take out the pancetta and it will still be just as delicious!With this recipe you easily get your daily intake of delicious and fresh veggies. Plus, I bet even your kids with love it since it's so colorful and fun to eat.

This recipe I personally love because you can change up the vegetable to your liking as long as they all compliment each other. You can add peas, eggplant, carrots, and etc... Whatever green veggies you prefer. If you want more information about what kinds of vegetables grow in the spring visit this nice website.
http://localfoods.about.com/od/whatsinseason/a/SpringFruitVeg.htm

You can also easily make this recipe in the winter with winter vegetable like with butternut squash, Brussel sprouts, cabbage, broccoli Rabe, cauliflower and many more if you want to see a list of winter vegetables.It's just as yummy and delicious with winter veggies. Don't skip out on your veggies just because it's winter!
 I suggest visiting this website: http://localfoods.about.com/od/searchbyseason/a/wintervegetables.htm written by Molly Watson to give you more winter vegetable if you want to experiment and try new winter vegetables. Feel free to try new combinations of vegetable every time I make this I try and mix up the veggies for a little variety and fun.

Remember to feel free to have fun with this recipe this shouldn't be stressful to make and its super quick to make! I encourage everyone to play with this recipe add veggies you may like more than this recipe. Be creative and mix it up. It should be light, easy, simple, fresh and fun!

Ingredients: 
Serves about 3 or 4 people 

• Half of a sweet onion, diced into 1/4 inches
• A whole corn on the cob and cut the kernels off
• A couple of cloves of garlic chopped very finely or put it through a garlic masher
• A couple of handfuls of green beans and chop them into 1/4 of an inch
• 3 or 4 mushrooms, chopped vertically
• Half a head of broccoli, chopped into little pieces
• Add about 1/4 a lb of pancetta
• 1/4 of a cup of white wine.
• A couple twigs of thyme and a couple leaves of basil chopped super fine
• Salt and pepper to your liking

Instructions:

1. Chop all the veggies before cooking and have them all ready.
2. Throw in the onion and garlic into a hot pan, let cook until clear and brown.
3. Add the white wine to the pan to cook out all the yummy caramelized bits. Let simmer until liquid is absorbed.
4. Add pancetta cooked until crisp.
5. Put mushrooms, corn and green beans in letting cook until soft.
6. Add broccoli, cook until bright green and soft.
7. Add herbs, salt and pepper to taste.
8. Let simmer until everything is cooked and served

Super quick, tasty, fresh, fun and light!

What veggies are you going to add?