Quinoa Quinoa Quinoa! Fun to say isn’t it? KEEN-WAHH!!!
I’ve had my eye on this salad for a week now. Doesn’t it look good? I saw it posted at the kitchn and immediately saved it under the MAKE SOON file in my brain.
I am sucker for all things lemony so this lemon-cumin vinaigrette was a nice treat! The fruit and the almonds kick some serious ass too!
And let’s direct our attention now to the star of this salad- the AVOCADO!
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Remember that Breakfast Polenta I made the other morning? Well I decided to make some for dinner a few nights ago!
I’ve started to collect scraps of fruit & veggie leftovers throughout the week. I save the scraps in a bag in the fridge and pull stuff out to be juiced. It’s a great way to get something out of the waste that feeding a toddler can create. A few cucumber spears here…a few slices of yellow bell pepper…beet greens leftover from a salad….
Suddenly, you have a healthy, vibrant juice.
So now that you made all this garlic naan, what are you gonna serve with it?
Spicy Indian Chickpeas!
Another winning recipe from Mad Hungry: Feeding Men & Boys by Lucinda Scala Quinn.
I had a horoscope the other day that said something like:
” It’s time to try new things. If you don’t do it now when will you ever?”
So that’s why I tried making garlic naan. I must get rid of this dough fear I have. I saw Hannah post her naan loot on flickr the other day and boy was I jeeeeeeeealous. I wanted a stack of naan in my kitchen!
I think one of the reasons why I am afraid of dough is the timing. I always have like 5 projects going on at once– in addition to taking care of Cooper and oh my gawd-I have to go back and punch down dough and get all dirty again? I guess I never time it right…and I don’t really know the right consistencies. Plus I doubt myself….Is that yeast bubbly enough??! Am I kneading this right? Oh dough, why aren’t you very forgiving?!
So there’s several schools of thought on banana bread. Some people like it really dense…some people like it with chocolate chips…
Me? Well, I am nut-loaded banana bread person. I like the amount of bananas to be equal to the amount of nuts. I am a nut. Can’t get enough.
But this recipe doesn’t have nuts! It has a buttery cinnamon topping, which totally intrigued me.
Could I eat a banana bread that didn’t have nuts and enjoy it?!?
While sipping on this juice, I am immediately transported to summertime. My husband has just mowed the lawn and I am standing the sipping on a gingery lemonade. I have a cute sundress on cuz that’s totally apart of the fantasy.
The kale tastes like fresh-cut lawn and hot DAMN the lime and ginger give it a bright note! I am immediately alert and ready to face the day. This juice will awaken your tastebuds! Look at that color green. It’s INSANE.
