Canadian Rockies Art

Zen Garden Frozen Vegetables by Europe’s Best

YUMMMMMMMYYYYYYY!!!!!!

That’s the only word I can use to describe these :)

I had purchased a bag of these Europe’s Best Zen Garden Vegetable frozen mix a few weeks ago and totally forgot about it. So today, for lunch, I wanted to do a quick stir-fry, and I went rummaging around and found them again.

I’m so glad I did!

One portion (3/4 cup, 85gr) is just 60 calories and the mixture of veggies in there is really lovely and tastes so fresh. I used 2 portions (1 1/2 cups or 170gr - I prefer to use a scale to weight frozen vegetables for a more accurate portion size), and I put a tiny dab of canola oil in a non-stick pan, and put the frozen veggies in there to heat up/stir-fry. They advocate other cooking methods on their site, but it worked really well for me to just stir fry them from frozen. Quick and easy.

The mixture is composed of whole Snow Peas (love ‘em!), Yellow Carrots, Orange Carrots, Water Chestnuts (my favorite!), Red Peppers, Baby Corn, and Bean Sprouts… so you get a really nice appealing variety of colors and textures in there.

There are no added preservatives or sauces or seasonings or anything.

It’s just plain super-fresh vegetables. Gotta love it!!!

So I put some of those (frozen) in my heated non-stick pan, and heated those up a bit, then I added in some cooked lentils (I cooked them with some spicy Taco seasonings yesterday and I had some leftovers), and added in a cup of cooked rice (leftovers too), and just warmed up everything in the pan and within minutes I had a really delicious and super healthy lunch :)

What I really liked about these frozen vegetables is that they actually felt and tasted ‘fresh’ as if they had not been frozen at all. I’ve had some frozen vegetable mixes by other companies before and I don’t care for most of them, but this Zen Garden mix by Europe’s Best really took the prize today. So much so, I had to blog about it :)

I will definitely make sure to keep a bag of Zen Garden vegetable mix in my freezer at all times. I love to stir-fry, so this is definitely a keeper :)

I'm featured on My Shopping Connection!

I just received the most excellent news this afternoon!

I received an email from the editor of the famous "My Shopping Connection" website, because she wanted to let me know that they've decided to feature my Mobius Love Knot Sterling Silver pendant on their site.

How cool is that!

 

It's a very neat website with tons of gorgeous handmade items. I'm definitely honored to have been picked!

Video Tutorial How to make Interchangeable Earrings

Last weekend, one of the girls in the Artfire forums asked me if I could possibly make a video tutorial to show how I make my Iziel Interchangeable Sterling Silver Earrings.

I sell those online in a few different versions – a couple of them come already set up with charms on them (pearls, kingman turquoise beads) and I also sell them alone (they can be worn alone, as is) and I sell separate gemstone charms that can be worn on hoops or on the Iziel interchangeable earrings. You can slip them on and off, and match your outfits, create a custom look. Very fun stuff :)

The earrings themselves are quite simple to make and I figured that I could squeeze that into the maximum 10 minutes allowed by YouTube. I didn’t get the chance to mention at the end that I put these in the tumbler for several hours, but by now, you probably know that it’s a ‘given’ with me – I tumble everything!

Without further delays, here’s my latest mini video tutorial:

Don’t forget, you can purchase my PDF tutorials in my Canadian Rockies Art Artfire Studio, in my Canadian Rockies Etsy shop, and on my own Canadian Rockies Art website as well. Thanks for watching!

Cheers,

Nathalie