Greens on Grains

Flavorful Greens for Any Dish

Ingredients: My favorite greens – baby spinach, baby kale, and baby chard.┬á – I often buy Earthbound Organic Power Greens No-salt seasoning (full of flavor without added salt) Sea salt – optional (add a bit if needed, but you control the amount this way) Bragg’s liquid aminos – It’s a soy sauce alternative, and it […]

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chickpea bowl

Chickpea Salad/Bowl with Tahini Dressing

This is the chickpea salad that I’ve had a few times this week. Sometimes with rice and sometimes just the chickpeas, salad greens, and dressing. I also made it a warm bowl by using chickpeas, veggie balls (IKEA), basmati rice, and collard greens. (I’ll have to add a photo of the bowl with collard greens […]

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Cucumber Caesar Salad

Cucumber Caesar Salad Dressing

I made the dressing not knowing what I would use for the salad ingredients, but I’m happy that I found this Cucumber Caesar Salad Dressing combination and I wanted to share it with you right away. I decided to try this dressing because my daughter likes Caesar salad dressings. And I enjoy cucumbers, especially when […]

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Salad Made Easy

This technique makes creating a mid-day lunch or dinner snack easy.┬á It also helps with creating a variety in your meals. What I like to do is put various toppings together into containers and add the salad dressing too. Ideally, choose any ingredients that you would like to marinate in the salad dressing. For me, […]

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Creamy Cumin Ranch Dressing

I finally got around to making this salad dressing and I’m happy that I did. I added to a Tex-Mex salad and…..YES! Yummy! Ingredients: 3/4 cup raw cashews (soak 1 – 2 hours if you do not have a high-speed blender) 1/2 cup filtered water Juice of 1 lemon (about 2 TBS) 1 TBS apple […]

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Cashew Cilantro Cream Sauce

I had just bought a new bunch of cilantro and I removed all the stalks and leaves that were loose because I didn’t want them to go “bad” at the bottom of the jar. (This is how I keep my herbs fresh in the fridge.) So I was left with a bunch that I wanted […]

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Homemade Catalina Dressing – Oil-Free

I had a mango and a red bell pepper and recall making a dressing out of the two a while back. But this time, I added a few more ingredients. Then end result is a dressing that reminded me of Catalina Dressing, but this one is Oil-Free. Catalina was my salad dressing of choice when […]

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Spicy Tropical Salad

Ingredients:2 Altufo mangos2 peaches, nectarines and/or apricots1/2 cup strawberries1 – 2 TBS green onions (or red onions)3 leaves of fresh basilgreen salad mixture as desiredDash of Cayenne Pepper (to taste)Oh, and I added a few bits of grapefruit today…Directions: (Simply add every to a bowl and toss together) Peeled and sliced mangos Chopped peaches, nectarines […]

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No Oil Italian Salad Dressing

Hi everyone. I promised that I would post this recipe and I am fulfilling my promise on the same day! (Amazing!) I had to leave home and get a cubicle at the library in order to focus on doing this, but I really feel that it’s so important for me to share the recipe. ┬á […]

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Texas Caviar

This is a new one for me. I have never heard anyone call “salsa” by any other name. I have lived in Texas for 45 years! Texas Caviar – never heard of it. So I did my best. The only think different about this salsa is that I didn’t chop/puree the tomatoes in my food […]

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