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Vegetarian Recipes

More Healthy Quinoa Recipes – Fiesta Quinoa Salad

by Wendy Polisi September 6, 2010 Quinoa Recipes

With the holiday weekend I have been in a festive mood, so I decided to come up with a fun new quinoa salad that was just a little bit different.  I just love coming up with new healthy quinoa recipes.  My inspiration came from a rice salad recipe that I found in Oxygen Magazine.  The [...]

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Clean Eating Quinoa Recipe!

by Wendy Polisi August 26, 2010 Black Bean Recipes

For those of you who were miffed with my recent digression into steak recipes thanks to anemia, you will be happy to know that today I am sticking with cooking with quinoa. In fact, I am being extra good and sharing a clean eating quinoa recipe!
It has been a while since I posted a new [...]

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Minestrone Soup with Quinoa

by Wendy Polisi August 25, 2010 Quinoa Soup

I have always found that soup is a great way to help be control my diet.  Since it takes so long to eat if I have it before a meal I find that I eat so much less.  One of my favorite kinds of soup is minestrone soup.  It is both healthy and filling!  [...]

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A New Quinoa Cooking Method – Cooking Quinoa in Your CrockPot?

by Wendy Polisi August 19, 2010 Cooking Quinoa

Because I am always cooking quinoa, finding new ways to do it is really fun for me.  Whether it is a new quinoa recipe or simply a new approach I love to try new things.  Now, forgive me if the title to this post was confusing.  I am sure that you could cook quinoa in [...]

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My Hummus Recipe

by Wendy Polisi August 9, 2010 Snacks

One thing that it took me a long time to learn is that healthy eating does not have to be boring.  The truth is that I genuinely like a lot of foods that are good for me – it just took me a while to identify what they were and learn how to make them [...]

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Wendy’s Favorite Quinoa Recipe – Balsamic Quinoa Salad

by Wendy Polisi July 24, 2010 Black Bean Recipes

Most of the time, when I create a quinoa recipe, the inspiration comes from somewhere else.  I will see a great rice recipe and thing “Hmmm…I bet that would be better with quinoa.”  And then I have to add a few things and spice it up a bit. Since cooking quinoa is such a big [...]

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Quinoa Goat Cheese Risotto

by Wendy Polisi July 20, 2010 Cooking Quinoa

I am always on the lookout for new ways of cooking quinoa.  I have tried to cook quinoa many ways, but never as a risotto.  The inspiration for this recipe came from a recipe I found in Epicurious.com. (They have some great quinoa recipes!)   I made a few changes to it to spice it up [...]

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Vegan Cookbooks Reviewed

by Wendy Polisi July 20, 2010 Vegetarian Recipes

Veganomicon

This cookbook will make it easier than you thought possible to follow a vegan lifestyle. It has more than 250 recipes as well as menus. One reason I really like this cookbooks is because of the beautiful photography. All of the recipes have been tested, so you can’t go wrong! [...]

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Southwestern Quinoa Salad

by Wendy Polisi July 18, 2010 Black Bean Recipes

While the boys were in the pool today, I decided to throw together a quinoa salad. It is hot here today, (103 on its way to 110…yikes…It may be a dry heat but it is still hotter than h*ll) and the idea of something cool sounded good. I usually don’t hesitate to jump [...]

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Quinoa and Red Cabbage and Ricotta Salata

by Wendy Polisi July 7, 2010 Main Dishes

Although it is something I never grew up eating, I have learned to love cooked cabbage.  This is thanks to my husband, who always orders it when we go to one of his favorite steak houses.  It took me five or six years (I’m slow, what can I say?) but I finally got the hint [...]

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