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cooking with hibiscus, cooking with pitaya, cooking with quinoa, using red in cooking, Wordpress Photo Challenge COLOR
Colorful, Healthy and Delicious
The photo archives hold many images of colorful foods that lend themselves well to this week’s COLOR theme on WordPress. Here are some of my favorite-but-unique foods that find their way into Zeebra Cuisine.
Pitalla (Dragonfruit)
Pitaya and hibiscus petals
Pitalla-tomato sauce over chicken & pasta
Pitaya Salad (Sauteed onions, Peppers, diced pitaya and lemon)
What’s Cooking? Hibiscus buds and chopped hibiscus petals rolled into gumbo!
Starfruit and Hibiscus make a beautiful, fragrant and delicious tea.
Banana-Maracuya-Hibiscus drink for breakfast!
Hibiscus is often found in dried teas. Shown: Rose/Hibiscus Tea Blend
Ah,! Fresh always trumps dried flowers!
Red Hibiscus and Quinoa “Quinouli”
Quinouli Fritatta
More information about cooking with hibiscus can be found HERE.
I hope you’ve enjoyed these slices of colorful food from Zeebra’s kitchen!
zzz
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Wow! I just learned a new thing from your post – hisbiscus is delicious. I have grown up with hibiscus – known locally as gumamela. It made for a good poultice and ingredient to make bubbles with. But as food – it is a novelty to me. 🙂
i prefer a salad of hibiscus flowers over regular (boring) lettuce! the flowers take on the flavor of whatever dressing is used, but they still have a unique silky and delicate texture, a bit like buttercrunch lettuce. they’re packed with vitamin a, iron, antioxidents and are associated with lowering blood pressure! they’re really good for women’s health!
enjoy using them in your future meals! ‘gumamela!’ that’s a new one, i’ve heard them called ‘flor de jamaica’ and sometimes flor de china… thanks amiga!
z
Thanks for this joyful fireworks of colors and savors !
I discovered your flavorful and tasty “hibiscus salad” in Costa Rica. It will be forever associated to the incredible remembering I keep from this very special holiday time…
Hope that we will meet again, together with Lise, Marie, Hank….
yes, my dear sweet friend, i will also treasure that time we had together in costa rica! for sure, we’ll all meet again! love, lisa
You feed my soul with colour!!! Thank you….
con mucho gusto! it’s my pleasure! thanks for your kind comment! lisa
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I love the beautiful colors from Zeebra’s Kitchen. Thank you Ms. Zee. ❀ ✿ Namaste ❀ ✿
you are tireless when it comes to sharing with others. thank you so much! lisa/z
You have such beautiful and important things to share Ms. Lisa. Please enjoy a wonderful week ahead.
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and the same to you!
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Sabroso! really good post, it made me want to eat again, now I want to try a pitaya how do they taste are they sweet
do you know the fruit called ‘tuna’ which comes from a cactus? (so does pitaya) it’s a lot like that.. i’d compare it/them to a kiwi fruit.
oh it taste like tuna I love the taste
Great post! Fruit and colours together with your vibrant art – just excellent!
thank you! i suspect that you enjoy a pretty table as well!
Oh, not even close to yours…
Great eye appeal to such a delicious looking plate of food & colors. What time is dinner?
the quinoa has been cooked; the tomato sauce is finished. all we have to do is pull a few more things together for another colorful and nutritious dinner! thanks!
Yet another knock-out post! 🙂 Love the colorful food!
thanks! it would be fun to serve you some of that colorful and fun food one day! z
I’ve got to make it down there! Knowing me, I will! 🙂
The colors are magnificent. The food looks incredible. The post is eye-popping! Great stuff, z.
thanks! i think you’ll like the photos of today’s progress on the magic carpet! coming soon!
Colorful, Healthy and Delicious… Beautiful post, z!
thank you! after working thru most of the night, i wish for some colorful, flavorful food right now! z
A feast for the eyes and the taste buds. Your post is an excellent illustration of the healthy eating slogan “Eat a rainbow every day.”
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wow! thanks! i’ve not heard that one before, and i like it.. sorry the keyboard had quick fingers today! z
Well, Zeeb, if you could just tell me how to eat dragon fruit. I love my hibiscus, but never thought to eat it. I am holding you responsible. The food photographs are wonderful. 🙂
thank you! peel and eat the dragon fruit for a lovely healthy fresh fruit fix! or put on a creative license hat and use it like you would tomatoes! that’s about the easiest way i can tell how i cook! it lends itself well to cooking, but the bright fushia color sometimes is a bit ‘much’ alone, so i tone it down with tomato paste for a more ‘normal’ sauce to go over pasta!
But what about the seeds? The seeds stumped me. I couldn’t figure out how to eat the fruit! This lesson has to be pre-101. 😉
i thought about that after i replied to your comment; yes, the seeds are fine – just ignore them and consider them as more fiber!
HAHA! Okay. I’ll try to eat them again. My only access to them is through the grocery. The seeds may be bitter in them. I’ll let you know! Thanks.
they were straight-from-the cactus when i stayed in nicaragua one ‘october/november’ a few years ago. i had never seen them before and really loved eperimenting with them. perdon, my computer is not letting me type the key that goes between w and y!
z
Now THAT’s funny! Should produce some interesting posts without the key…
Your blog delights the senses in so many ways!
thanks! get ready for a quick, ‘what’s for breakfast’ post! z
beautiful and yummy.
Nooo, this is almost to much for my pale heart to see. So colourful, beautiful, vibrant! 🙂
ha! thanks! after a long white winter, those images are rightfully vivid in contrast! thanks so much! z
Wonderful post! The floors make the food and the food makes the floors. Can’t beat that!
thanks, tina! we’ve had a fun time painting the floor, and it’s nice to reap the benefits of hard work and sit down and enjoy the magic carpet!
One word about your colorful portfolio: VIBRANT!
Thanks! Would you believe that I found this hiding with unsavory characters in the Spam folder? Tsk tsk that they stowed you over there! Now you are back where you belong! Z
Love all these brilliant colors.. Foods really can be quite pretty!!
yes they can (be quite pretty!) – they’re not only pretty here, but are a good value for the money as well!
Your post has made me very hungry. I love vibrant color. You’ve showcased many that I think are fabulous. I have seen Pitalla ( Dragonfruit) but didn’t have a clue on how to eat it.
Isadora
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thank you amiga! yes, dragonfruit is so delicious and is a very good food for your health. buy one and peel it, slice it, dice it and enjoy it just like it is.. or whirl it into a drink… or make a sauce or salad.. there are endless ways to use, it but most people just eat it as a fruit or make a drink from it.
Delicious food and hot colours love your posts.
thanks, jack! yes, that was a very colorful post!
All your paintings are colourful and the food made my mouth watter.
Absolutely wonderful Lisa! 🙂
thanks! with all of the color at the local markets, it’s easy to find something worthy to eat – or to photograph!
Beautiful capture of color!