Mediterranean Kale Salad

  To my mind, kale is the rock star of all greens.  I integrate it into at least one meal a day and sometimes it’s as easy as simply stuffing a handful of it into our morning green smoothies.  Most times though I try and keep it intact in shape and form and celebrate its texture [...]

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Faux Tuna Salad

  Making faux tuna using garbanzo beans isn’t an idea original to me;  I simply modified the idea to mimic how I used to make the real deal.   It’s quick, easy and can be made nearly on the fly.  It also happens to be delicious and full of healthy and filling fiber.  Plus,  the vitamin C-rich [...]

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Warm Bulgur Salad

  This is a wonderfully quick and delicious autumnal whole grain-based salad.  It can be served at any temperature you wish, but is very nice when warmed.  I like to serve this over a pile of soft butter lettuce as a side dish to my gyros seitan for a hearty meal on a cold night.   Warm Bulgur Salad Ingredients: [...]

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Red Quinoa Salad

Red Quinoa Salad Quinoa, though often called a grain, is in fact, a seed.  It is a fabulous source of protein and contains all essential amino acids.  The cold-pressed flax seed and walnut oils offer healthful Omega-3s, while the dried tart cherries are chock full of anti-inflammatory anthocyanins.  This salad is perfect for a light [...]

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Pulled Yuba Sandwich with a Sesame Slaw

  Cherries, especially the tart variety,  are receiving a great deal of attention these days in the athletic world due to their ability to mitigate pain after exercise.  This little fruit is packed full of anti-inflammatory anthocyanins as well as the carotenoids lutein and zeaxanthin which are important to the health of your vision. They [...]

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Golden Beet, Fennel and Grilled Pear Salad with Dandelions

We went nettle picking recently on a local organic farm and walked through a gorgeous pasture full of blooming dandelions.  We gathered up quite a few of the beautiful flowers and decided to work them into a meal.  The petals are fairly sweet, while the green of the flower is slightly bitter.  I figured integrating them into [...]

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In The Weeds

  We spent part of this past weekend in a cow pasture on an organic produce farm in the bucolic Nisqually Valley near Olympia, Washington.  The reason we, and a dozen or so others, were there was the offer to join a  nettle-picking with our local Co-op.  The full spectrum was represented in our motley crew [...]

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Chopped Cauliflower Salad

I try to avoid adding highly processed oils, saturated fats and mayonnaise-type products to our food.  We happen to believe that it’s a healthier way to eat.  Keeping this in mind, I will always opt away from the commercial and toward natural whole food replacements in order to create a more nutritious version of a dish if it’s at all possible.   As a consequence, [...]

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Hold the Mayo!

  Grilled Curried Tofu and Almond Butter Salad Using almond butter and lemon juice rather than a faux mayonnaise makes this salad significantly healthier for you.  Almonds are a great non-dairy source of calcium and the chia seeds are full of omega-3 fatty acids.  Turmeric, in the curry powder, contains curcumin which is a powerful anti-inflammatory [...]

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Warmed Kasha Salad

  I would like to thank Mila for sending H home with a package of buckwheat.  It challenged me to come up with something that represents what I think a Russian might enjoy using ingredients that I already had on hand.  When I think of Russia I think of beets, sour cream, dill, cabbage…and warm comfort [...]

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