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Grain Bowls with Garlicky Spinach, Roasted Sweet Potatoes, and Tahini Drizzle

January 2, 2018 by Lindsay 4 Comments

....and so much more!

HAPPY NEW YEAR, truly. I know this is the teensiest bit cliche to start the year with something so trendily healthy, but it's also delicious so I'm sorry I'm not sorry. I am a thousand percent behind bowls of any kind for meals. Grain bowls, Mexican rice bowls, poke bowls, all of the bowls. I MAINLY like them because it's a lot of healthy stuff piled on a crap-ton of carbs, but that's on me. You don't technically have to use 8 cups of a starch before you get to the veggies, or you can and you know I'm not here to judge.

The flavor combination in this bowl is somewhere in the middle of Italian and Middle Eastern, and let me just tell you how well that works. The sweet potatoes and tomatoes are roasted until caramely and soft, spinach is wilted with anchovy and garlic, and the whole thing is topped with a tahini drizzle, feta, and lemon juice. The flavors are unreal together, and the great thing about bowls like this is what you can customize them to what you have on hand, what you enjoy, etc.

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Thai Squid Salad

February 22, 2016 by Lindsay 1 Comment

Super yummy Thai Squid Salad recipe with vermicelli rice noodles and tons of crunchy vegetables. The Thai salad dressing here is sweet, savory, and punchy from lots of lime juice. I make the dressing and chop the veggies in advance, then sear the calamari while cooking the rice vermicelli noodles for a super quick low carb weeknight main dish salad dinner!

LUNCH!

Or dinner. Or part of dinner.

A lot of times we're total go-outers on weekends for lunch - it's a good time for Beck, we like restaurants, and when it's nice we love sitting outside at one of the gazillion options Greenville has for outdoor dining. BUT, in an effort to save money and keep things simpler with the baby, we've been doing more of that at home too - fun lunches on weekends that are a little bit fancy but still healthy and easy to make, because anything complicated totally defeats the purpose of eating in, right?

So this Thai Calamari salad recipe. Super healthy, full of flavor, can be prepped in stages based on what kind of time you're working with. The Thai salad dressing is really the kicker, and you can swap out veggies, seafood, nuts, WHATEVER based on what you have on hand, what you like, what you feel like - you're the boss!

Just make a version of this soon, is my point.

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Power Vegetarian Cobb Salad

January 20, 2015 by Lindsay 3 Comments

Vegetarian Cobb Salad with Quinoa and Power Greens is one of our favorite quinoa power bowls! Inspiration from a classic cobb salad but amped up with herby quinoa and a delicious roasted garlic vinaigrette. I love this for meal prep; store all the ingredients separately and cut the avocado right before serving.

Here's your recovery from that 3-day awful food and drink bender you just finished up last weekend.

You're welcome for that.

I know a lot of people for whom every Monday kind of turns into a New Year's resolution fest - are you like that? MONDAY is when I start to get my act together and be nicer and less dramatic and eat more quinoa.

Why Monday? I have no clue. Anyone who watched all the football on Sunday knows that Monday is just another recovery day that might involving laziness and fried foods, amirite?

Although, to be fair, I actually ate this on Saturday in an attempt to be slightly well behaved. And then washed it down with 948 light beers BUT THAT'S HEALTHY.

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