October 7th, 2009
Quinoa is an amazing grain-like protein source that we have been using in our cooking very regularly. The best part about quinoa is that it’s a complete protein, meaning that it has all the essential amino acids, or in layman’s terms it fills you up super nice. Since quinoa is such a good protein source and much lighter than soy products, we have been using it extensively to “beef up” our veggie dishes (forgive the pun…). So believe the hype: quinoa dishes are great for staying healthy and with all that protein quinoa helps reduce your portions, which is a problem all passionate foodies face…
A super awesome quinoa bowl (recipe)
Serves 4
- 1 cup quinoa
- 1 large green pepper, chopped
- 1 small to medium red/yellow pepper, chopped (optional)
- Half a carton of cherry tomatoes, halved (about a cup)
- One medium sized sweet onion, diced (preferably Walla walla, yum 🙂 )
- 1 can of black beans,
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Tags: avocado, black beans, bowls, cherry tomatoes, green peppers, healthy, lime juice, protein, quinoa, sweet onions, vegan, vegetarian, yellow peppers
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September 28th, 2009
Today at Fred Meyer they had a sale on organic green peppers: $1.49 each. That’s right—not per pound but each.
There were three enormous and perfect-looking ones so we bought them all, it’s like a week’s worth of veggies for $4.50.
If you want to know more about Fred Meyer’s sales, you can follow them on Twitter (Yep, a twitter for the Hawthorne Fred Meyer – isn’t that silly?).
Tags: Fred Meyer, green peppers, groceries, in season, organic, vegetables
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September 28th, 2009
This veggie chili is one of the easiest and most versatile recipes we know, so we make it often. There are a few base ingredients that you’ll always want to include which we always keep on hand, and then you can add lots of other items to suit your taste.
This particular batch of chili was really made fantastic by the harvest of green peppers grown in my mom’s garden (thanks mom!).
Base ingredients:
- 1 can (14 oz) black beans
- 1 can (14 oz) red kidney beans
- 1 can (14 oz) pinto beans
- 1 can (14 oz) stewed tomatoes
- 1 small can (4 oz) green chillies
- 1 medium onion (any yellow or white kind will do, sweet ones are especially good in this recipe), diced and fried
- 1 tbsp chili powder
- 1 tsp salt
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Tags: black beans, chili, chili powder, green chillies, green peppers, jalapenos, kidney beans, pinto beans, stewed tomatoes, sweet onions, vegetarian
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