Last week, Fresh & Easy Neighborhood Market, held a Phoenix blogger cooking event at Sur La Table, a kitchenware heaven in my book. The theme of the evening was healthy dish recipes for Thanksgiving. The recipes featured included:
- Turkey Brine
- Roast Turkey (Full bird)
- Toasted Almond & Cranberry Stuffing
- Cranberry Spinach Salad with Spiced Pecans and Dijon Balsamic Vinaigrette
- Classic Green Bean Casserole
- Sauteed Sweet Potatoes with Spinach
I’m going to share the Sauteed Sweet Potatoes with Spinach because it’s a perfect Noshtopia type dish: super simple to make and vegan.
Ingredients (serves 12):
- 3 tbsp olive oil
- 6 large sweet potatoes, peeled and diced
- 2 cloves sliced garlic
- 1 tsp nutmeg
- 2 red bell peppers, sliced
- 2 bags 16oz each, Fresh & Easy chopped spinach or any fresh spinach brand you like
- Salt & pepper to taste
Let’s get cooking:
- Heat olive oil in a large skillet over medium heat.
- Saute the sweet potatoes until soft, about 8 minutes. Transfer everything to a bowl.
- Toss the bell peppers into the skillet, add the nutmeg, and saute for about 2 minutes.
- Now toss in the spinach into the skillet with the peppers, and cook until the spinach is just wilted.
- Add the cooked bell peppers and spinach to the bowl with the sweet potatoes in it. Season with salt and pepper to taste.Toss bell peppers, spinach and sweet potatoes until combined.
- Place on serving plate and enjoy!
Just to share some of the evening here are some pictures I took.
After everything was cooked, we each got to enjoy a full plate of food with glasses of red wine. This is my first official Thanksgiving meal of the holiday season.
Here are the food bloggers ooooing and aaaahhhing as Chef Cindy dazzled us with her cooking demos.
For dessert, we noshed on pumpkin cheesecake, pecan pie, and some Fresh & Easy signature chocolates.
All the folks with Fresh & Easy Market were so wonderful and I had a great deal of fun. I do have to mention that the parting schwag bag they gave us was one of the most impressive I’ve ever gotten. It had all kinds of goodies in it but mainly one of my favorite indulgent treats behold….