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Thursday, June 20, 2013

Quinoa and Brown Rice Bowl with Vegetables and Tahini

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 It seems like every few weeks I hop on here to share my new favorite meal with you guys. What can I say? I have a lot of favorites! This vegetable quinoa rice bowl is the newest addition to the favorites list. I love when eating healthy tastes good! Ryan loved this as much as I did—we were both legitimately excited for leftovers.
I know tahini isn’t the most common ingredient, but it’s worth picking up a jar for this recipe. I’m pretty sure you’ll want to make it again and again, and if not, you can use it in these roast beef sandwiches or a chicken, squash, and chickpea salad or buffalo wing hummus. I ate this both warm and cold and liked it both ways, making this an excellent candidate for a “make Sunday, eat all week” lunch!

What’s your favorite healthy but doesn’t taste healthy meal or snack?

One Year Ago: Buffalo Chicken Cups
Two Years Ago: Taco Pasta Salad
Three Years Ago: Banana Lime Coconut Cake

Wednesday, June 19, 2013

Avocado Citrus Salad

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 My brother in law Daniel doesn’t like salad dressing. Can you imagine? I’m not one to drench my salads in dressing, but I feel like I’m going to scrape my throat with bare greens! To each his own, I suppose.
When Dan and my sister in law Kate joined us for dinner a few weeks ago, I picked this salad since a dressing was pretty non-existent. Instead, you use juicy oranges and grapefruits and just drizzle the assembled salad with a little bit of olive oil. Dan was able to keep his plain and actually, the creamy avocado and juicy fruit prevented any throat scrapes with or without the oil!
Sometimes the best salads are the simplest salads, as this one proved. However, if you want to jazz things up, throw some goat cheese in there! We ate this with our new favorite grilled chicken and grilled potatoes (made with olive oil, salt, and pepper in a foil pack), and the four of us decided it screamed ‘perfect summer meal’!

One Year Ago: Chocolate Raspberry Ice Cream
Two Years Ago: Banana Pudding Ice Cream
Three Years Ago: Jam & Prosciutto Panini with Walnuts, Apples, and Brie