Healthy
Lentils and Roasted Squash
This makes a healthy lunch or dinner and is a great way to make use of those lentils and squashes that are hanging around. The white wine-mustard sauce brings this dish together. It’ll give you comfort on those cold winter days. From the original site: For many days, a whole butternut squash stood around on our table. Then I decided to eat it. The rest is a recipe.
Raw Kale Salad with Avocado and Blood Orange
Sometimes you need to just rely on your judgment instead of a written recipe, don’t you agree? In fact, the name of this recipe pretty much tells you all you need to know. Go ahead…step outside your comfort zone. Try it! From the original site: I had a ripe avocado and a blood orange just waiting to be invited to the party. The avocado added a soft richness and the blood orange a bright sweetness. Of course, they b…
Spinach and Quinoa Salad
The vinaigrette for one of my favorite salads has only 3 ingredients; oil, lemon juice and soy sauce. The salad part also has 3 ingredients; baby spinach, quinoa and sesame seeds. It’s so easy, but trust me, it’s all good. I usualy make this for lunch, but it could also go very well with any meat or fish. Special Instructions: Serves 4-6 Ingredients: 6 good handfuls of baby spinach 3 cups cooked quinoa 1/4 cup s…
Tamales!
Tamales are a special treat reserved only for three holidays in Latin households – Thanksgiving, Christmas, or New Year’s Eve. Tamales are delicious and are also surprisingly cheap and easy to make as well. Every country and family has their own version of tamales. Because my husband is from El Salvador, my version is typical of tamales found in El Salvador. I like to fill my tamales with gree…
Screaming For Frozen Desserts, Lemon Sorbet!
The Lemon Myrtle in this recipe, combined with the sweetness & sourness of the sorbet, was ethereal. A pinch of the scented herb from Gryphon Tea gives this dessert an exotic feel, perfect for the festive season & leaves you yelling for more!
Best Ever Simple Lentil Soup
Meaty without containing meat, thick, rich tasting without being fatty, this is fill-you-up-but-not-out stuff. From the original site: Let’s humbly subtitle this “Lentil Soup of the Gods.”
Hummus and Tabbouleh Salad
Simple and Easy Mezze Food! From the original site: The Tabouleh salad is a traditional Turkish salad that has a strong flavour of Parsley and is served cold. Derived from the Arabic word tabil, that means seasoning, the salad has a variety of most flavours that are easy to find and I personally love. The salad was surely a winner. I don’t know if the meal was a success, but it definitely got approval enough, fo…
Pumpkin Peda/Truffles
It’s Diwali today and I am feeling a little homesick. Not that we had lavish celebrations for Diwali but it was still a great time to decorate with lit oil lamps, light fireworks with friends, get gifts and eat tons of deliciously rich food. Now that I live in the U.S., I do not get to celebrate Diwali that often but every now and then I try to recreate as much as I can of this wonderful festival of lights. Spe…
Japchae – Korean Sweet Stir Fry Noodle with Beef and Vegetables
All family member waiting this dish to be serve…This is one of our comfort food :) From the original site: Japchae is one of korean favorite traditional dishes, it’s a sweet stir fry noodle with vegetables and beef. Japchae often serve as side dish on korean house, if japchae serve only with rice in a bowl then call japchae-bap. This traditional dish is a comfort food for all korean house since o…
Japanese Sesame Dressing
Homemade Japanese sesame dressing – healthy full flavored salad dressing and only takes minutes to make. From the original site: Since my son loves Japanese sesame dressing, I keep making different versions and this particular dressing is actually my husband’s favorite. I wrote down the recipe so that I can make it again, but usually I keep altering the recipe to see if I can improve it.
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