{"id":25,"date":"2015-04-06T18:15:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-06T18:15:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2019-12-30T18:56:35","modified_gmt":"2019-12-30T18:56:35","slug":"fresh-veggie-platter-for-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chefpattie.com\/?p=25","title":{"rendered":"Fresh Veggie Platter for Spring"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<p>I was feeling my creativity too on Easter Sunday. &nbsp;I made this cool veggie and dip platter shaped like a spring scene. It was great with a ranch dip.<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<table cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chefpattie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_9906.jpg\" style=\"clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/chefpattie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_9906.jpg\" height=\"640\" width=\"432\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">I 2 fresh broccoli spears, a bag of carrot chips, a bunch of radishes, grape tomatoes and cucumbers. I had a half of a bell pepper I used up too. It was easy to lay it all out.&nbsp;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chefpattie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/veggies-2B001.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/chefpattie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/veggies-2B001.jpg\" height=\"484\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">Just slice up all the above veggies and use celery as the &#8220;stalks&#8221; of the plant scene. The radishes are the little red and white flower petals.<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chefpattie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/veggies-2B004.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/chefpattie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/veggies-2B004.jpg\" height=\"640\" width=\"484\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>I had Mango salsa and tortilla and pretzel chips for all of the dips and dipsters!<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chefpattie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_9911.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/chefpattie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_9911.jpg\" height=\"562\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;It was a guilt free and easy fresh veggie platter for our last day of Spring Break. <\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chefpattie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/veggies-2B002.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/chefpattie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/veggies-2B002.jpg\" height=\"480\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Use half greek yogurt for some of the sour cream in your ranch dip to save some calories too. Yummy and guilt free snack I&#8217;m going to enjoy all week.&nbsp;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chefpattie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/DSC08575.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/chefpattie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/DSC08575.jpg\" height=\"480\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">I cut a few sprigs off of my apple tree today and put them in vases around the house. Aren&#8217;t they pretty? They smell wonderful too. Now I have tulips sprouting AND flowering trees to remind me it is now Spring!&nbsp;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/chefpattie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/52DF516F6DB76EE398EF303B60079B65.png\" style=\"border: 0;\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was feeling my creativity too on Easter Sunday. &nbsp;I made this cool veggie and dip platter shaped like a spring scene. It was great with a ranch dip. I 2 fresh broccoli spears, a bag of carrot chips, a bunch of radishes, grape tomatoes and cucumbers. I had a half of a bell pepper &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/chefpattie.com\/?p=25\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Fresh Veggie Platter for Spring&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":461,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chefpattie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chefpattie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chefpattie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chefpattie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chefpattie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chefpattie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":467,"href":"https:\/\/chefpattie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions\/467"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chefpattie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chefpattie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chefpattie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chefpattie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}