Category: Dinner

Mushroom Basil Mock Risotto

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Hi all,

The perfect spring recipe.  For the season stuck in the middle of frigid and scorching.  Posing as a comfort food (hearty, creamy, filling and oh-so-tasty), yet low in calories, light and healthy.  This dish is grain-free, lactose-free and of course, sugar-free.

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Sweet Potato Bean Enchiladas

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Happy Sunday, Everyone!  I don’t know about you guys, but I personally could eat Mexican food every day if the opportunity presented itself.  Tacos, burritos, enchiladas, nachos, the list goes on.  Finding myself in a Mexican cuisine kind of mood, I decided on enchiladas for today.

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Quinoa Sweet Potato Breakfast Bowl

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Recipe #47 is a pretty free-form one that can be easily thrown together.  Its SUPER healthy for you, low in calories and fat, bursting with good-for-your-body ingredients, and it tastes AWESOME.  This is one of my go-to dishes when trying to eat light and healthy.  I recommend when making the quinoa, cook 2x what you need.  You can store the extra in a container in the fridge and throw together one of these bowls way quicker within the next few days, whenever you wish.  This dish is gluten-free, lactose-free and sugar-free.  And its pretty dang close to being raw as well, aside from the cooking of the quinoa.  I think you will be pleasantly surprised by how tasty it is.  Dont say I didn’t want you.  It sounds simple but man oh man.  I make this a few times a week and am always thrilled when I sit down to eat it.

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Salmon Pesto Pasta

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This recipe (#46) is one of my favorites.  I stumbled across it by mistake when making a mixed pasta dish one evening and realizing I had some leftover salmon.  Salmon and pesto being two of my favorite foods…plus this particular mixture of ingredients in the pasta sounds pretty mouthwatering in combination with those two things.  A light bulb went off overhead.  This dish was the result.  And MAN, is it good!  Super easy to make, hearty, delicious, as well as healthy.  This is the perfect winter dish.

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Mexican Style Salad

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I imagine many of you would agree with me that Mexican food is the bomb.  Enchiladas, tacos, chimichangas, nachos, oh my gosh.  I could go on and on.  Its one of the things I have missed about living in the states.  Access to some dang delicious Mexican food.  For the time being though, I have had to make do and bring the Mexican cuisine to me.

Here is a tasty recipe that can be whipped up quick if you find yourself with a hankering for some.  Its gluten free, lactose free and refined-sugar free.

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Super easy Sweet Potato Breakfast Skillet

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This recipe (#39) is a super cinch and yet, it remains one of my tried and true favorites.  Its surprisingly filling and just satisfying.  You can throw on some bacon or prosciutto if you like, which I do on occasion.  This bumps the dish up a notch making it even more mouthwatering.  To my knowledge, there is nothing that bacon ever tastes bad on.  Am I right?

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Coconut Curry Shrimp Quinoa Bowl

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Happy New Years Eve, all!  Edible item #34 is another “beauty bowl” of sorts.  I decided to stick with the both “easy” and “healthy” trend for the moment.  This one is so simple to assemble that actually, its slightly embarrassing.  The taste payoff is a big one, just so yummy when compared with how quick it is to make and then be digging in mere minutes later.

The coconut curry sauce goes AWESOME smothered atop the shrimp, mixed with the subtly nutty taste of the quinoa, the crunch of the bell peppers and onions adding a great texture variety, the mango lending a surprisingly light sweetness, brightening the entire dish.  All of the flavors and textures come together really nicely, balancing one another out and playing well with each other.

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Salmon Pesto Beauty Bowl

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Continuing onward with the healthy, chock-full-of-vitamins-and-minerals, lighter fare trend for recipe #33, I opted to whip up another “beauty” bowl.  The reason these bowls are named as such is because the ingredients found within work wonders for your health.  They are AWESOME for your body.  Hence, I call them a beauty bowl because the foods included literally help with making you glow (both with feeling awesome on the inside and looking fabulous on the outside).

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This recipe is gluten-free, sugar-free, very low in lactose, and you could nearly label it a “raw” recipe as well.  To describe a few of the health benefits for each of the included ingredients:

*Salmon can help protect the body from free radical damage.  Its also amazing for hair, skin, eyes, bones, and nails.  Eating salmon can help prevent heart disease.  It can also help with support to brain functioning and eye health.

*Quinoa is high in protein and gluten free.  It has been used to promote healing of the skin.  It can also help with energy metabolism of the brain and muscles.  Just google “why is quinoa good for you” and check it out for yourself.  This seed is being called a “new superfood.”

*Spinach boosts anti-inflammatory and anti-cancer benefits.

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Pumpkin Mac & Cheese

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Merry, Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!!

Ok, people.  Recipe #31 is one of my most loved.  Its homey, cheesy, so satisfying.  I can never stop at just one plate.  Its also the perfect winter dish.  Behold, the quintessential Christmas day meal.  (It is gluten-free and sugar-free.  Its definitely not dairy free).  My Christmas gift to you:

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Gluten-free Pumpkin Pasta

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For recipe #24, I decided to go the savory route as I realize the last handful of recipes have been sweet.  This one is embarrassingly easy and yet somehow manages to totally hit the spot.  It is the ideal winter dish.  It tastes delicious, hearty, potentially even unhealthy in that mouthwatering-impossible-to-stop-eating kind of way.  Its cozy and comforting.  Yet, its gluten-free, lactose-free and of course, sugar-free.

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