Here’s a quick and easy quinoa salad for all of your spring and summer picnics and barbecues, your weeknight dinners, and your lunchbox fillers. Jam-packed with a rainbow of bell peppers, carrots, leek (or scallion), dried cranberries, and fresh cilantro, and dressed with a few squirts of lime juice and some olive oil. Quinoa cooks very quickly, usually within 10 to 15 minutes. The rest of the salad is just chopping, squeezing, and tossing, and that’s about all I want to handle when the sun is shining here in New York City after such a long winter. 
Easy, delicious, healthy, and portable. A salad that pleases vegans, gluten free-gans, and vegetable lovers. Continue reading
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Cranberry and Cilantro Quinoa Salad
3 MayChickpea Vegetable Pancakes with Yogurt and Urfa ~*Recipe ReDux*~
22 Apr
This month’s Recipe ReDux theme is ‘Spring Cleaning:’
“Go through your pantry, cupboards, freezer, or fridge; what ‘treasures’ have you found? Pick an ingredient/spice/condiment that’s been hanging out for a while and give it the attention it needs. Share a healthy recipe made using your new-found pantry prize.”
Some hidden ‘treasures’ that I found in my kitchen include: pine nuts, canned pineapple, chocolate balsamic vinegar, amarena cherries, anchovies and anchovy paste, and capers. If anyone has suggestions for what to do with some of these ingredients please let me know in the comments. These ingredients have been patiently waiting to be used for a long time now.
Ultimately, I decided to focus my attention on the chickpea flour that has been hanging out in my pantry. Continue reading
Popcorn with Coconut Oil and Nutritional Yeast
17 Mar
My latest snack obsession? Homemade stove-popped popcorn!
My fat of choice when it comes to popcorn is coconut oil because it can stand high heat and I like the subtle coconut flavor. Organic canola oil works, too. Sprinkling a few shakes of nutritional yeast (and some salt) onto the hot popcorn lends a savory note to the little puffed kernels and adds a nice yellow-orange hue. Just like movie popcorn, but way better for you.
Be like all the cool kids and start popping farm-to-table popcorn. Continue reading
Cocoa Tahini Fruit Shake ~*Recipe ReDux*~
22 Feb
This month’s Recipe ReDux challenge is all about chocolate matches:
Does your chocolate need a friend? What is your favorite chocolate match? Show us your favorite healthy chocolate combo recipe.
(See December’s Recipe ReDux post here. See January’s Recipe ReDux post here.)
My chocolate match for the month is cocoa and tahini! With a few Mediterranean-inspired fruit ingredients (dates and figs), because I am trying to channel warm vibes over here in my cold New York City apartment. Continue reading
Squash-crusted Pesto Pizza
18 Feb
My friend Tyffanie and I were batting around ideas the other day for how to use up the winter produce that we received in our Corbin Hill farm share boxes this month. She suggested making this butternut squash pizza crust. I enjoy making pizza at home, and I am partial to making my own “no-knead” pizza crust with bread flour, but this gluten-free squash-crusted pizza looked like an intriguing and new-to-me cooking project for a too-cold-to-leave-the-house Sunday afternoon.
Who knew winter produce could look this good?! Continue reading
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