Food & Drink – Page 2 – The Creative Salad

Healthy and Delicious Kale Salad

The grown-ups in our house can’t get enough of this kale salad.

My little helper and I have been making a giant batch each week.

David and I gobble it up and feel incredible the next day. This salad is pure, raw brain food.

Now if only we could get our three-year old to try it.

It’s delicious. Really.

Here are some of the adjustments we make to the original recipe: we half the amount of lemon in the tahini-lemon dressing; omit the tomatoes and bell pepper (because of David’s nightshade allergies), add chickpeas, double the amount of kale, nuts and dried fruit in the salad.

We love the flexibility of the recipe. You really can add whatever veggies and nuts you have in your garden, fridge or cupboard. You can’t go wrong. It’s incredibly tasty and easy (although a bit time consuming) to make. Trust me, you’ll make this salad again and again.

Thanks to our friend Amber for originally introducing us to the recipe! We love it!

Summer Postcard No. 10

We’re going to be blogging lightly for the month of August, posting frequent photo postcards with a snippet of text. View the entire summer postcard series here.

Cooking up a batch of cottage cheese apple pancakes (recipe from Mollie Katzen’s Moosewood Cookbook). Much more healthy than regular pancakes and such fun to make together.

Summer Postcard No. 9

We’re going to be blogging lightly for the month of August, posting frequent photo postcards with a snippet of text. View the entire summer postcard series here.

Mixing up a batch of vegan, gluten-free chocolate coconut ice cream. Super easy and so very delicious.

Summer Postcard No. 7

We’re going to be blogging lightly for the month of August, posting frequent photo postcards with a snippet of text. View the entire summer postcard series here.

Our whole family loves eating out. We think it’s important to support our favorite local, organic eatery.

Meal Planning

Are you tired yet of these posts from the couch, with photos from my camera phone? I know I am.

The big news is that I can now place weight on my ankle, stand for short periods of time, and inadvertently took a few steps yesterday. (Talking with friends can be so fun and distracting; you may start walking without even thinking about it!) Today I walked around the house quite a bit and am now recovering on the couch. This is very, very good news.

However, I have been concerned about staying healthy since I can no longer run each night. While using crutches does give me a stellar upper body and core workout, I need to get back to consuming more vegetables in my diet. (We’ve done a LOT of take-out the past two weeks.) The good news is that since I’ve stopped running, my appetite is much smaller. The bad news is that it’s harder to get in the kitchen with crutches.

That being said, I have been doing some cooking, focusing on preparing veggie intensive, healthful meals.

I pulled out our trusty recipe binder and found several salads and healthful grains to prepare this week: Quinoa Salad with Pears, Baby Spinach and Chickpeas in a Maple Vinaigrette; Golden Spice Rice with Chickpeas (from Feeding the Whole Family: Recipes for Babies, Young Children, and Their Parents); Green Beans with Roasted Nuts and Cranberries; and Garlicky Shrimp and Spinach. Yum yum!