Eat your greens
Posted: May 25, 2010 Filed under: Uncategorized 2 Comments »Since I’ve been at the hospital all day, I’ve been doing a lot of snacking in place of meals. Not my preferred manner of eating. No big deal (well at least it shouldn’t be, except that I’m a disordered eater, but I don’t really want to talk about that right now.) Anyway, when I’m in my own kitchen and not a waiting room outside the ICU, I love me some salads. Salads are really great in the spring and summer months when the temps start to climb, but I crave them almost as much in the winter as well. Most people think all salads are the same: boring, unfillling, a meal-starter, not a meal in themselves. But I have become a master of salad combinations. My salads are tasty and filling. Here are a few of the salads I’ve been fueling with lately…
The 5 G Salad: massaged kale, sprouted lentils, avocado, broccoli, and cilantro in a orange-tahini dressing.
The Walnut Salad: walnut pate (walnuts, carrots, Bragg’s) on a bed of spinach and massaged kale with Ezekiel tortilla chips on the side.
Sunshine Salad: Grilled Sunshine Burger on a bed of baby greens and kale, topped with roasted sweet potatoes (these are delicious on salads!)…with orange-tanini dressing again.
Salads are my favorite. l love combining various ingredients at random, depending on what l have on hand, just to see what goes with what. l just got a few new ideas here. Sometimes make a dressing, sometimes a bottled will do, but EVOO & balsamic vinegar are frequent ingredients, just a little brown sugar for sweet and maybe some herbs or minced garlic & onion. Or not. Here in Maine we like tiny newborn baby dandelions (it’s already too late) before they get bitter, maybe fiddleheads drizzled with my dressing & refrigerated. l have learned how to taste something in my mind, to see if it’s even feasible; sometimes l’m wrong, but experimentation keeps life interesting. Even my grandaughter loves salad, especially if she can choose what goes in it.
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