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Remember Your Health Too This Memorial Day
By Angela Capelli

Finally, the warm weather has arrived, and I hope it’s here to stay. With the warm weather comes long summer evenings on the patio enjoying the bounty spring and summer have to offer. Where I live it isn’t uncommon to receive a phone call with an invitation for a barbeque that evening. Each family brings their favorite dish to share. These are some of our wonderful summer memories, and many of my favorite summer recipes have come from these special evenings. This recipe for green bean salad is one of those recipes, and it’s quick, simple, healthy, low calorie and most importantly really delicious. Bring this colorful salad to your next summer barbeque and wow your friends. Green beans and tomatoes are both a very good source of fiber and vitamins A and C. Tomatoes pack a healthy dose of cancer fighting lycopenes.

Green Bean & Grape Tomato Salad with Mustard

• Vinaigrette

• 1 lb. string beans

• 1 c. grape tomatoes, sliced in half

Sauce

• 2 shallots, chopped

• 20-25 basil leaves

• 2-3 tbsp. grainy Dijon mustard (not spicy)

• 2 tsp. sugar

• 3/4 c. olive oil

• Salt & pepper to add flavor

Combine sauce ingredients in food processor, adding olive oil last. Blend until creamy. Blanche beans, add sliced grape tomatoes, add 2/3 of the sauce to beans and mix. Pour leftover sauce on top.

E-mail Angela Capelli at foodbites@curiousparents.com with any questions, comments, suggestions or baking tips that you may have. For more information on the nutritional value of vegetables, see our article at CuriousParents.com.