rah rah radishes a vegetable chant by april pulley sayre

Some other ways to get a lot of fresh, crunchy veggies in a tasty meal are to cook up some falafel and stuff them in pita with carrots and cucumbers, bell peppers and lettuce and tomatoes (along with hummus and olives). Grate the daikon and some carrots, steam some asparagus, slice some bell peppers, cucumbers, and avocados thinly, mix some cooked sushi rice with rice vinegar and sesame seeds, and then roll everything up in sheets of nori. I love daikon radish, which is great in veggie sushi. There are also vegetables like lima beans and leeks and endive and daikon radishes. And the vegetables pictured aren't just the most common half-dozen. Page after page of mouth-watering vegetables galore, photographed on the shelves of a produce market, are coupled with her lively vegetable chant. If you've ever grown some, you know that you end up with zucchini coming out of your ears.Īpril Pulley Sayre has crafted an eye-catching beauty of a picture book about vegetables. Zucchini? Don't get me started on zucchini. This has come in handy ever since, with my having now been a vegetarian for some thirty-something years. And it was rare to have a dinner at home that didn't include a green salad. I'd often come home after school to carrot sticks or peas in their pods or chunks of cauliflower as afternoon snacks. One of the truly wonderful things I got from my mother is a love for all sorts of fresh vegetables. But the bok choy crop is long gone as we ease into fall. The tall stalks of brussels sprouts out there are just now ready to harvest. My favorite is to have a big pan of them stir fried in olive oil with chopped garlic.

A six-pack of seedlings planted in our garden have produced a five-month-long never-ending stream of big, beautiful collard leaves. This year I got turned on to collard greens. You gotta call one today when you get off the train.Ĭall any vegetable and the chances are good

30 October 2011 RAH, RAH RADISHES! A VEGETABLE CHANT by April Pulley Sayre, Beach Lane Books, June 2011, 32p., ISBN: 978-1-4424-2141-7

Rah rah radishes a vegetable chant by april pulley sayre