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Sumo Citrus Salad with Cauliflower, Olives & Feta

February 1, 2019 9 Comments

Citrus salad with Sumo citrus, roasted cauliflower, kalamata olives, scallions, raisins, and cashews + citrus vinaigrette. #HealthyRecipe #HealthySalad #Citrus #cauliflower #EasyDinner #DinnerSalad

I have 2 things for you today! First up, a Sumo citrus salad loaded with roasted cauliflower, kalamata olives, scallions, raisins, cashews and feta. It's dressed with a bright, orange-citrus vinaigrette. Second, a roundup of more than 20 roasted vegetable dishes for easy dinners that I posted on Parade's online magazine, Parade.com. It's Week 3 of my Vegetarian Meal Plan series. Citrus Salad Time Wintertime means citrus is at its peak, and the stores are full of citrus you only see a ...

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Vegetarian Meal Plan + Tips for Omnivores // Week 1

January 18, 2019 24 Comments

  Do You Create Meal Plans? I need to start creating vegetarian meal plans for dinner. And because I'm married to Carnivorous Maximus, I need to plan for how adjust the dishes for him. I find myself way too often at 6:00 (that's p.m. not a.m.) wondering what I'll make for dinner. The result is often something thrown together that's not particularly healthy. Other times, my last minute dinner may be healthy, but not filling, leaving me to look for ice cream or cookies later at night. ...

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Mediterranean Cauliflower Salad with Crispy Chickpeas + Miso Dressing

June 16, 2017 4 Comments

Perfect clean eating dinner. Warm cauliflower salad with crispy chickpeas, sun-dried tomatoes and Kalamata olives, all tossed in a miso dressing. Do you have certain ingredients you always go to? The Italians, IMHO, have this nailed. Tomatoes, pasta, garlic, basil, and Parmesan. Those five ingredients can make several days of meals for me. Nothing against this winning combination, but I have my own favorites I often go to year-round. Cauliflower. Sun-dried tomatoes. Kalamata olives. ...

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Grilled Fattoush Salad | #ProgressiveEats

July 25, 2016 17 Comments

Grilled fattoush salad with grilled peppers and zucchini, tossed with tomatoes, cucumbers, green onions, and chickpeas dressed in buttermilk-yogurt dressing.

Grilled fattoush salad with grilled peppers and zucchini, tossed with tomatoes, cucumbers, green onions, and chickpeas dressed in buttermilk-yogurt dressing. I attended  The Yoga Expo this past weekend in Santa Clara. It's a big yoga and meditation day traveling around the country, with a stop scheduled for Vancouver, BC as well. There are also exhibitors for everything from crystals to homeopathy and juices in a pill form. If you decide to go to one of them, and I do recommend it, here's my ...

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Socca Pizza with Spinach, Tomatoes, Olives and Feta | #SundaySupper

March 26, 2016 16 Comments

Socca with Greek Salad

Gluten-free socca pizza made with chickpea flour and topped with a Greek salad. In celebration of the opening of My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 this weekend, we're all about Greek food at Sunday Supper today!  Full confession, I missed the first movie, so clearly I have some homework to do before seeing the second one. All I really know about these movies is that they're about the clash of cultural traditions with modern-day, and embrace both the frustration and joy of large extended families with ...

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Easy Swiss Chard Recipe with Lemon, Quinoa, Fried Capers and Olives

March 17, 2015 35 Comments

Lemony Swiss Chard Quinoa sauté with fried capers and olives

Easy Swiss chard recipe -- sautéed with lemon, quinoa, capers, and olives. Perfect vegetarian main dish, or serve as a side dish to the meat eaters at the table. This may sound nuts, but after experimenting with recipes all day I often droop at the thought of making dinner. All I want is to sink into the sofa with a glass of wine, and have someone whip up something magical for me. My husband grills a mean steak, and his pork chops are absolutely perfect, but he's not at all interested in ...

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Lemon Roasted Fennel with Olives and Breadcrumbs

December 18, 2014 7 Comments

Lemon roasted fennel with breadcrumbs, olives, oranges, and raisins

Lemon roasted fennel tossed with olives, oranges, raisins, and breadcrumbs for the Food Network #FallFest. It’s time for the Food Network blogger-fest again – and as we wrap up #FallFest, the theme this week is a holiday side dish. I like to make side dishes that can do double duty as an entrée if I (or anyone else) want to go vegetarian for the meal. Over the past few years, I’ve made countless batches of brown rice, farro, quinoa, couscous, or barley to use as a pilaf-y kind of base to be ...

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Calzone Mummies

October 25, 2014 19 Comments

How to make a mummy calzone, vegetarian

Gathering: an assembly or meeting, especially a social or festive one, or one held for a specific purpose. –Google dictionary Gathering: a coming together of family and friends to celebrate a special occasion and toast the bonds of friendship with Gallo wine. –The Wimpy Vegetarian Halloween for me is the (un)official kickoff for the fall gathering season that leads to winter. Thanksgiving, Christmas, Hanukkah, and Kwanza are next, culminating in New Years and a major exhalation onto a sofa with ...

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Zucchini Succotash Cobbler & Cornbread

September 6, 2014 18 Comments

Zucchini succotash with cornbread topping

#SundaySupper Post! Zucchini succotash cobbler with corn, yellow beans, and tomatoes, topped with cornbread. So it turns out today is National Acorn Squash Day. I had no idea there was such a day, did you? With all due respect to acorn squash, I'm going to cook a bunch of it up, but not right now. I'm just not ready to let go of summer. And once I move onto acorn and its siblings, butternut, kabocha, and pumpkin I've turned my back on summer. So acorn squash, I'll see you for sure in October. ...

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Eggplant Parmigiana Casserole with Pesto

July 17, 2014 27 Comments

Recipe for slices of eggplant dipped in pesto and parmesan cheese, layered in a casserole with roasted tomato sauce and mozarella.

Summer eggplant parmigiana casserole of eggplant slices coated in pesto and cheeses, layered with tomato sauce lasagna-style for easy serving. One of the things I've most enjoyed about blogging is getting to know people I may never meet. We food bloggers share recipes, comment on each others blogs, and support each other through more social media channels than I thought I'd ever join. Along the way, we offer up pieces of our lives with anyone who stops by our kitchens. I know who had surgery ...

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Roasted Cauliflower Head with Quinoa Breadcrumbs

May 13, 2014 10 Comments

roasted cauliflower with quinoa breadcrumbs, vegetarian main dish

Crispy roasted cauliflower head over a pile of quinoa breadcrumbs, capers & kalamata olives, with a soft-boiled egg on the side. Cauliflower isn’t badass like Serrano peppers, who pack searing heat into long slender bodies. It’s not a vixen like salt, completely dominating dishes if mishandled, not letting other ingredients get a word in edgewise. Nope. Nor a superhero like quinoa, able to leap over tall lists of diseases in a single bound. Cauliflower is laid back mellow. Or so I thought. ...

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Spaghetti with Chickpeas and Spicy Tomato Sauce

March 8, 2014 57 Comments

Spaghetti with Chickpeas and Spicy Roasted Tomato Sauce

Great vegetarian dinner of spaghetti with chickpeas and spicy tomato sauce with roasted tomatoes. This week's theme for SundaySupper is Meatless Meals, hosted by Tammi at Momma's Meals. This is one of my favorite "go-to" dishes for rushed evenings since I nearly always have a stash of cooked chickpeas on hand and this Roasted Tomato Sauce is part of my regular pantry. All I need do is cook some pasta noodles, pull the sauce and chickpeas from the fridge to toss together in a sauce pan, and ...

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