All posts filed under: salads

dragon bowl-z with soba

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i’ve been making variations on this dish for years now, usually with quinoa or brown rice. lately though: soba! the noodles with the thinness of the vegetables works really well. this is a good dish to make extra of and assemble later. i’ve been doing that quite a lot lately. i eat it for lunch then make it for dinner at work or for the next day. delicious times. it’s super filling and has lots of different fresh […]

fake bbq meat sandwiches and a citrusy cocktail

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i had my first multi-person visit at the new house the other night with some rad lady pals. they brought beer, i made foods. still on my soycurl kick i made something akin to a pulled meat sandwich on baguette with green tomatoes, massaged kale and avocado. i served them with a side of roasted nugget potatoes cut into wedges with a pesto mayo dip (vegenaise and pesto mixed together, lazy). i didn’t know they were […]

warm salad with potatoes, mushrooms, summer squash, avocado and sausage

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this is the first MEAL meal that i’ve cooked in my new house so i’m pretty pleased with myself. until now there was a lot of this:   this was a weird meal. i didn’t know if it would pan out but the results were tasty results. i wanted a trashy potato thing but also needed vegetables so this was the compromise.     THE SALAD 2 handfuls arugula 2 handfuls baby spinach 1 carrot […]

FIG TIME + SLAW

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so it is figtime in vancouver, bigtime figtime. there are tons of overgrown fig trees all over the city (hanging over fences into alleys where they are fair game) and i am eating them all. my friend and i went out to find them and came home with THE MOST. so what to do with figs? anything. we cut up the super ripe ones and mixed them with almond yogurt and toasted nuts for dessert. IF YOU […]

orzo salad with butternut squash, almond, arugula, cherry tomato and basil

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SALAD a small bag of orzo a butternut squash, peeled, seeds scooped out and diced small two handfuls of cherry tomatoes, cut in half 2 big packed cups of arugula, chopped up 10 big basil leaves, chopped up 2 scallions, sliced thin 1/2 a zucchini, quartered and sliced thin 2/3 cup almonds, chopped and toasted DRESSING 3 cloves garlic, grated 1 lemon, zested and juiced 1/2 c. olive oil lots and lots of black pepper […]