This über healthy, vegan, gluten free Carrot Quinoa Chickpea salad is more than a salad and better for you than popular fast-casual “bowls”, in fact, you could call it a square meal. For some reason this term crossed my mind and struck me as ironic – when, why and how did the expression “square meal” come […]
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Quick Quinoa Edamame and Pepper Salad #eatclean
Another Fast, Fresh & Easy dish for Sunday and Meatless Monday. We love to cook and eat good food, but some of us don’t like spending all of our weekend in the kitchen, right? I’m working on a whole peck of pepper recipes inspired by The Great Pepper Cookbook, by Melissa’s Produce, so check back […]
Blueberry Quinoa Salad – Is It A Winner?
The availability of blueberries year round is fast becoming another fantastic benefit of the global economy – and one that contributes to our health and well being considering the nutritional powerhouse that blueberries are. It’s because of the demand for this antioxidant-rich super food that North American highbush blueberry acreage has increased by +55% in […]
Autumn Apple, Quinoa and Butternut Squash Salad
Apples = Autumn to me. The signs are everywhere – the days are cooler, evening settles in sooner, and kids are back in school. It must be apple season. One of the earliest cultivated fruits, the apple has come a long way from its crabapple-like ancestors. Careful cultivation has transformed those original small, sour apples into large, […]
Winning Quinoa Recipes
As a big fan of quinoa and an advocate of sustainability, fair trade and supporting local farmers, I wanted to take this opportunity to share with you the winners of Alter Eco’s Quinoa Recipe Contest. To celebrate the International Year of Quinoa (who knew!), Alter Eco invited aspiring chefs from across the country to share their […]
Obsessed with Chiles: Quinoa Stuffed Chile Rellenos
My obsession with chile rellenos lives on – it is how I measure every Mexican, Tex-Mex, or Southwestern restaurant that offers the dish on their menu, and if they don’t – shame on them! When I return from a trip, within a day or two my car finds its way to Great Mex in Costa […]
Quinoa Tabbouleh with Endive
About a month ago, I received a box of California endive from the wonderful people at Discover Endive! Inside the box was a bouquet of red and white endive as well as two packages of endive to play with in the kitchen. I had never seen endive still attached to the root ball and it […]