You need to make this grain salad during the holiday season. It can be a main dish or a side dish. Full of flavor, texture and warm spices. The pomegranate seeds make it feel special and dressed up. Egyptian Barley Salad Serves 4 1/2 cups pearl barley cooked 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon 1/4 teaspoon cumin 3…
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Honeynut Squash with Long Grain Wild Rice Stuffing
This is a Honeynut Squash. Along with some friends in my fruit bowl. These are petite sweet squash ready for roasting and anything creative you have to fill them up this holiday season. Here’s the honeynut squash filled with a long grain and wild rice stuffing. Dried cherries, pine nuts, herbs and a raspberry balsamic…
Greens and Farro Salad with Cherries, Walnuts and Goat Cheese
Another salad. I just can’t stop making new combinations of greens and grains with a seasonal twist. You can use any grain you like. I am choosing farro for this since it’s a nutty grain and works well with the walnuts and the fresh tart cherries. I like to make a white balsamic vinaigrette, but…
Grilled Broccoli Salad
I love to roast broccoli, but I’ve been putting it on the grill this spring. I realized how quickly it cooks compared to the oven and just as delicious. I’ve combined it with a few go-to salad items that I usually have on hand and here’s my favorite way to enjoy grilled broccoli. This is…
Greens & Quinoa Salad with Fennel, Oranges and Avocado
Happy New Year! Ring in 2020 with this healthy, delicious salad. It has everything you need to start out the day, and is filled with greens, quinoa, fennel, cara cara oranges, dried apricots, pistachios and avocados. I finished it with an apple cider vinaigrette. This salad is a meal. I took it to a New…
Mediterranean Quinoa Wraps
I’ve been loving adding quinoa to salads, substituting it for wheat based grains and adding it to grain bowls for a long time. This week my new favorite way to use a batch of quinoa is in a Mediterranean lettuce wrap. I have romaine and all kinds of greens spilling out of my veggie drawer….
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