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A Week of Salads, Part 4: Southwestern Sweet Potato and Quinoa Salad

My new favourite cookbook is Mark Bittman’s How to Cook Everything Vegetarian: Simple Meatless Recipes for Great Food. It is basically vegetable porn because I just can’t stop reading it. I will sit on the couch with it and read the book imagining all of the wonderful things that I’m going to make. Basically if [...]

Recession Recipes Grill Party: Mixed Bruschetta with Grilled Salmon with Salsa Verde, Grilled Zucchini with Mint and Red Chili, and Lentil and Sweet Potato Salad

It’s Memorial Day weekend, which means lots of you will gather around a grill over the next few days, so we wanted to get together a full menu for your barbecue this weekend. I dithered a bit in choosing what to throw on the grill (as I usually do), but we settled on these choices [...]

Quinoa Salad

Carlo and I just got back from a three-day camping trip in Zion National Park. We had an incredible time, and it just might be my new favourite place in the world. When we go camping, we like to make up some hearty salad-type recipes that we can eat for lunch, so you don’t get [...]

Salmon Roasted in Cilantro Salsa with Quinoa Sopa Seco and Cucumber-Avocado Salsa

Here is another great salmon recipe with a Mexican twist, and perhaps the best recipe for quinoa that I’ve found yet. In case you have never heard of quinoa, it is a super healthy ancient Incan grain that makes for a nice change from brown rice or cous cous.
All of these recipes were published in [...]