Quinoa Salad with Sugar Snap Peas The nice thing about Costco is that they have such great produce at a value. The downfall, is that you have to come up with dishes to use up all the fresh veggies before they spoil! I’m still on my Quinoa kick, so I created this dish based mostly […]
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Quinoa with Carmelized Onions, Sweet Yellow Peppers and Fresh Herbs
The first time I recall ever enjoying Quinoa, was in an interestingly delicious salad served at Continuum Winery during a special lunch event that we attended a few years back. I had taken notes and actually had to go look it up following our lunch! It seems like I start noticing the “foodie trends” while […]
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I don’t like to waste food, so I often pull what left overs I have on hand in the fridge and try to “transform” them into something else that is delicious. Many times no one has known just how easy the “second time around” dish really was to make, but that doesn’t matter. I just […]
Read the rest of this entry »Blackened Catfish with Mashed Sweet Potatoes
I spotted some fresh catfish at the market the other day and it smelled very fresh! And since Bill’s been wanting to incorporate more fish into our diets, this was a perfect find! He requested blackened, which seems to be his favorite lately software video! Blackening is a cooking technique used in the preparation of […]
Read the rest of this entry »Roasted Corn and Black Bean Salad
I was having the kids and Bill’s folks over for dinner recently and I was thinking “Mexican”. They all seem to enjoy tacos and I like that we can easily enjoy the same ingredients in a salad form. I had five ears of corn hanging out in the fridge and thought I needed to do […]
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