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Recipe: Quinoa Salad with Lemon Basil Dressing
Summer salads are here! This one packs a protein punch, too. Quinoa is delicious and fun to eat – I love the texture. Moreover, I cooked it super easily in my rice cooker! Total bonus. Okay, let’s get cooking this quinoa salad with lemon basil dressing. This salad keeps for about 5 days in the fridge, so make a lot and eat up. This recipe will give you about 12 servings – so half it if you like. Ingredients 2 cups of uncooked quinoa a…
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Recipe: Apple and Carrot Salad
When I was at the grocery store last week we picked up about 5 gala apples and a 2 pound bag of carrots – the intent was to use them in juices. That didn’t happen. Instead of letting them go bad, I checked out the pantry and found cranberries and pecans – perfect. Apple and carrot salad it is! Ingredients 4 gala apples about 1.5 pounds of carrots 1 1/2 cups of dried cranberries 1 cup of chopped pecans Dressing 1 cup of mayo 1/4…
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Recipe: Churro Pancakes
Cinnamon and sugar – yes, yes, yes. I love cinnamon and sugar. Today I was a bit lazy and although I felt like churro waffles, I didn’t feel like getting out the waffle iron. Silly, right? Then it came to me…churro pancakes! Yes! If you’ve tired my churro waffles then you’re going to love this recipe – if you haven’t…the only reason I can think of is because you don’t have a waffle maker…well then, problem solved. Cook up. Ingredients a cup of pancake mix…
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Recipe: Cookies and Cream Cookies 2
I found it!!! Oreo Cookies ‘n Cream Pudding Mix. Time to make these cookies and cream cookies 2 the right way. Back in November/December of 2013 I ran a series – 12 days of cookies, and these cookies n’ cream cookies were awesome. Only issue, I used vanilla pudding mix instead of Oreo pudding mix. It’s better with more Oreo! This time, I also used the triple double Oreo cookies – so good. Try it! Ingredients 1 cup of soft salted butter 1/2 cup of…
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Recipe: Pizza Quesadilla
Quesadillas?! Usually I pack mine with cheese, of course, chicken and veggies, like onions and peppers. On Saturday, I felt like pizza! Yet, no pizza to be found out here in the country…no delivery and I didn’t feel like leaving the house. What to do? Pizza Quesadillas! Ingredients 2 flour tortillas 1 tablespoon of butter 3 tablespoons of pizza sauce 1/3 cup of cheese toppings – I used turkey bacon First gather all your ingredients and get them ready. I wanted to fry up the…
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Recipe: Roasted Veg
Roasted veg in tinfoil packs reminds me of summer…this recipe is simple – 4 ingredients and you can change it up as you see fit. Add potatoes, add other vegetables, use butter instead of oil…you decide! Ingredients 2 red peppers 1.5 pounds of broccoli 2 tablespoons of omega oil 5 dashes of steak spice First – wash and cut your veg and throw in a bowl. Next, grab your omega oil and your steak spice. Mix everything together well and get out some tinfoil. Wrap…
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Recipe: Sliced Baked Potato
Baked potatoes are a classic – perfect with a steak, chicken, or any food, really. This nifty little sliced baked potato not only helps the potato bake faster, but it also give it a bit more flavour and crisp. Ingredients 2 large potatoes (will feed 4) 4 tablespoons of omega oil 1 teaspoon of sea salt old cheddar cheese (optional) These potatoes are huge! 2 is enough to feed 4 people…they’ll just get half a potato each. The down side to using such large potatoes…
