Sauteed Spinach with Apples and Garlic
This is a simple recipe packed with flavor, micronutrients and all around goodness! Variations of this recipe are served in local tapas restaurants as it is based on a traditional Spanish recipe. Ingredients: 1 bag (9-12 ounces) baby spinach, washed and dried2 cloves garlic chopped1-2 apple cut into small cubes. A tart, firm apple such…
Wheatberry Salad with Red Fruit
Adapted from the Food Network – this recipe is no longer posted, but this link provides many other recipes for adding more whole grains to your diet. Guests LOVE this recipe. It’s a great healthy side for almost any main dish. A usual serving of wheatberries – 1/2 cup – without any dressing has 160 calories, 1…
Mexican Quinoa Bean Salad
Editor’s Note: Bhavana often brings delicious grain and bean salads for all of us to enjoy after bootcamp, but since she is good at ‘just throwing ingredients together”, we usually can’t pin her down for a recipe. So, after she brought this salad for us to enjoy at a group brunch, she wrote:“I finally made…
Sweet and Sour Cucumbers
This is a very easy recipe and good to use as a side dish for a barbeque. Although there’s a lot of sugar used, most of it will end up in the brine. Ingredients: 1.5 pounds cucumbers (or 2 long, seedless hothouse cucumbers)1 cup rice vinegar1 cup sugar1 tsp salt1.5 Tbsp minced fresh ginger root…
Corn Salad in a Mustard Vinaigrette Dressing
Years ago, before I spent much time cooking, I brought this to the home of a friend who is trained as a professional chef. I remember being ecstatic that she asked for the recipe. It’s an easy salad that is one of our summertime favorites and is great as a side dish if corn on the…
Parsnip Carrot Puree
From Nourish – indulgently healthy cuisine by Scott Uehlein and Canyon Ranch Some people choose to go with tradition and enjoy the same meal year after year on Thanksgiving. I myself don’t have a set menu. So when I asked my son what we should prepare this year, he chose a new recipe I tried…
Golden Lentils with Soft, Sweet Onions
from the Washington Post This isn’t as thick and creamy as mashed potatoes, but it is high in protein and fiber and is a good as a side dish or main dish that you can make more or less spicy depending on what the rest of the meal is like. As with many dishes, it tastes…
All Season Salad
Dr. Rajagopal, fondly known to her patients as “Dr. Raj,” is a well known oncologist in our area. She’s highly intelligent, knowlegeable, and dedicated to patient care. She’s known for making rounds in the middle of the night to check on her patients and for missing our group exercise sessions many times even when they were held…
Asian Kale Slaw with Ginger Peanut Dressing
Here’s a moist but crunchy salad, inspired by my trip to Vietnam, but actually provided by Jennifer Segal on her great website Once Upon A Chef. I made it for a dinner club event a few weeks ago and everyone loved it. Since I was supposed to make a side dish, I kept the amount of…
Smashed Peas with Fresh Mint
If you’ve ever planted mint, you know that it needs to be in a planter of its own, not in a bed with other plants. It grows well so abundantly that it takes over everything else! So if you’re looking to use mint, try this recipe! Lady Docs had a fundraiser this weekend for a wonderful…