Healthy leftovers

Left to right: Back row Beans, Feta cheese, roasted peppers; Front row Smoked vegetables and Croutons


When I was in the Entremetier (vegetable) station at L'Ecole, The French Culinary Institute's restaurant, I was eating pretty healthy. I brought home a lot of leftovers. (We made vegetable plates, besides the meat specials). I lived on beans with smoked baby artichokes, turnips and Jerusalem artichokes. The dish tasted like bacon, but didn't have any bacon in it at all. I ate roasted peppers with Feta cheese. As a snack, I munched on croutons (which were toasted in clarified butter but whatever). It was a good run of being healthy and it fulfilled one of my New Year's resolutions to eat more vegetables.