Healthy Diet: Lentil Salad with Roasted Vegetables

Posted on May 24, 2016

Healthy Diet: Lentil Salad with Roasted Vegetables Whenever I think about healthy eating the first thing that pops into my head is lentils.  Just the act of eating them makes me feel like I am supping at the fountain of youth.  While there is no research to validate my theory, they are a nutritional powerhouse. […]

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Healthy Diet: Fattoush Salad

Posted on May 10, 2016

Healthy Diet: Fattoush Salad Adapted slightly from Global Table Adventures Last month for book club we read Life From Scratch: A Memoir of Food, Family and Forgiveness, which chronicles food writer and blogger Sasha Martin’s attempt to make a meal from every country in the world.  She starts with Afghanistan and ends with Zimbabwe.  In our book club […]

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Healthy Diet: Indonesian Chicken Salad

Posted on Mar 22, 2016

Indonesian Chicken Salad Adapted slightly from the New York Times When the calendar says it’s spring and the weather gives brief glimpses of warmer days ahead, I start to crave lighter meals.  Instead of chicken pot pie or beef stew, I crave salads, smoothies and vegetables of all kinds.  It is a spring cleaning, of sorts, for […]

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Healthy Diet: Salmon Salad

Posted on Aug 19, 2015

This salmon salad is another one of my favorite summer dinners.  I think the colors say it all – the corn and cherry tomatoes give it sweetness, the potatoes add creaminess and heft and the green beans, peppers and cucumbers add a satisfying crunch.  A homemade vinaigrette tops it all off with some acidity to […]

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Healthy Diet: Grilled Steak Salad with Blue Cheese and Cherry Tomatoes

Posted on Aug 05, 2015

This grilled steak salad is one of my favorite summer dinners.  An easy marinade adds just the right amount of sweet and salty to the meat while the creamy blue cheese, sweet cherry tomatoes and pungent red onion gives it tons of flavor.  I like to use arugula for the greens because I enjoy their peppery […]

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Healthy Diet: Carrot and Avocado Salad

Posted on Jul 01, 2015

Last week we roasted beets from Farmer’s Market to make a delicious salad.  This week we are roasting carrots and pairing them with avocados.  I am always on the lookout for different or unusual combinations and this recipe from Smitten Kitchen caught my eye.  The sweetness of the carrots pairs beautifully with the freshness of […]

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Healthy Diet: Roasted Beet Salad

Posted on Jun 24, 2015

If there is one thing you can count on all summer long it is the abundance of beets at the Farmer’s Market.  Beets are one of those foods I recently re-discovered.  Up until a few years ago I thought all beets were like the ones you get out of a can: tasteless, slimy and unnaturally red. […]

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