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The Man With the Hands? ♥ ♥ ♥ We’re Married!

We've been a couple for eight years and then we married in eight days. Here's the story! Please come share our joy! A Veggie Venture is home of ' veggie evangelist ' Alanna Kellogg and the famous asparagus-to-zucchini Alphabet of Vegetables . © Copyright Kitchen Parade 2016

Broccoli & Tomato Holiday Wreath ♥

May we just agree to be amazed just how much broccoli and tomatoes really do look like an evergreen wreath with red berries?! Stunning! So very festive! ~recipe updated, first published way back in 2007~ ~ more recently updated recipes ~ WAY BACK IN 2007 Before Christmas awhile back, my friends' mother called, asking for help with a recipe. Mrs. K had seen it in a magazine – or wait, maybe a cookbook? she wasn't sure – and was desperate to find it again. She recalled the basics, broccoli and tomatoes in a wreath shape. But what would bind them? We couldn't think. Not eggs, no, and certainly not gelatin. Cheese maybe? She thought not. So Mrs K returned to her hunt. Many days and magazine piles later, at last she found her recipe. "It's just butter," she exclaimed exultantly. "Do you really think that just butter can hold it all together?" It can! And this festive vegetable dish – buttery yes, but still definitely a vegetable – is absolutely