5-Minute Quinoa Recipes By What To Eat Published Sep 16, 2014 Today’s guest blogger is Food Network star Melissa d’Arabian, who joins Recipe Rehab and Everyday Health for the Brown Bag Challenge! Quinoa is a little like kale — it raced into our lives with flourish and fanfare, and we went from not being able to pronounce quinoa to it being available at even small neighborhood grocery stores. What’s so great about quinoa? Here’s the plan: Make a large batch of plain quinoa and then keep it in the fridge, cooked and ready to go for super easy recipes all week (because if brown-bagging is a huge hassle, you might give up after a day or two, which I don’t want!). Now that you have your quinoa ready to go, you are less than five minutes away from any of the following portable lunch ideas:
Food - Recipes : Thai beef and mango salad Food - Recipes : Mediterranean chicken with potatoes Strong and Beyond: Healthy Chickpea Salad One of the healthiest foods you can ever incorporate into your cooking is also one of the most versatile. Behold, the protein-rich chickpea. Chickpeas have existed for thousands of years through many cultures and there are traditional recipes using this excellent legume from all over the Earth. Chickpeas are a mainstay in salads and stews, of their many uses they are shaped into balls for falafels and they are ground into a flour for Indian cuisine, in Burma they are stirred into batter and baked. Chickpeas have proved to be one of the most malleable and nutritional foods in all of human history. Besides protein, chickpeas are an excellent source of iron, folate, phosphorus, and dietary fibre. This is a wonderfully simple chickpea salad that has a tremendously fresh taste. Ingredients: Directions: Take the green onion, bell peppers, cucumber, tomatos basil and cilantro and chop them up finely Combine all the ingredients in a medium-sized bowl. Bon appétit!
Tacos de Canasta Filled with Spicy Potatoes and Cheese – Hispanic Kitchen 1/3 cup cilantro, chopped 2 Roma tomatoes, sliced or diced 4 cups shredded lettuce 1 cup your favorite salsa Directions: 1. Preheat broiler to high for 5 minutes. Add poblano pepper to baking sheet and cook under the broiler for 5 to 6 minutes per side. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Classic Rack of Lamb Recipe I live for lamb chops. Juicy, tender, rare (please please give me rare), deep reddish pink, browned, crusty, herbed, fatty goodness. So when my father sent me on a mission to make rack of lamb (what? 8 lamb chops in a row?) Beneath the recipe I’ve included links to rack of lamb recipes from other food bloggers, and a recipe for a breaded herb crusted version from chef Gordon Ramsay that my father likes. The cooking time depends on how big your rack of lamb is, and how rare you want it cooked. Ingredients 1 or more Frenched* lamb rib racks with 7 to 8 ribs each (1 1/2 to 2 pounds for each rack, figure each rack feeds 2-3 people) For each rib rack: 2 teaspoons chopped fresh rosemary 1 teaspoon chopped fresh thyme 2 cloves garlic, minced Salt Pepper 2 Tbsp olive oil *Typically you will buy a rack of lamb already "Frenched", or cut so that the rib bones are exposed. Method 1 Rub rib rack(s) all over with mixture of rosemary, thyme, and garlic. Yield: 1 rack serves 2 to 3 people.
Stir-Fried Vegetables with Chicken or Pork Recipe How to Steam Hard Boiled Eggs The steaming time will vary depending on the size of your eggs, how cold your eggs are to begin with, the altitude of your location, how vigorous the water is boiling, if your eggs are in a single layer or are stacked, and how soft or firm you like your hard cooked eggs. So you may need to experiment to find the right timing for your situation. A steamer basket is convenient, but not necessary. Method 1 If you are using a steamer basket, fill a saucepan with as much water as needed to reach the bottom of the steamer basket (about 1 inch or so). If you are not using a steamer basket, just fill the bottom of a saucepan with 1/2 inch of water. 2 Heat the water on high heat until it is boiling and producing steam. This method works best if the eggs are in a single layer, but you can double them up as well, you'll just need to add more time to the steaming time. Note that many things will influence the steaming time, including altitude and the size of the particular eggs you are using. Hello!
twice-baked potatoes with kale As I do every year, I woke up the morning after Thanksgiving with dueling urges to consume pie for breakfast as well as to repent with an endless sequence of brothy vegetable soups until I no longer dreamed of pumpkin cheesecake, cranberry caramel almond tarts and chocolate silk. I vowed make the wholesome side triumph this year, however, yet somewhere along my righteous path to eating kale salad for breakfast, lunch and dinner, I remembered that kale salad tastes absolutely nothing like pie and that was basically the end of that. By dinner that night, we were digging into terrifying heaps of spaghetti and meatballs at Carmine’s, followed by overstuffed chocolate cannolis. There wasn’t a ribbon of kale in sight. The inspiration came from a version on Food52 created by the blogger behind Brussels Sprouts for Breakfast who had served these, I think rather brilliantly, as a side to her family’s surf-and-turf Christmas Eve tradition. Serves 6 as a side; 3 as a hearty main
Use Your Cast Iron Pan and a Tortilla to Make World Class Bar-Style Pizza in Under 12 Minutes With the right technique, regular flour tortillas make excellent thin-crust bar-style pizzas. [Photographs: J. Kenji Lopez-Alt] I've gotta tell you that in the catalog of easy, cheat-y pizza recipes that start with some form of pre-baked bread base, flour tortilla-based pizzas ranked pretty low on my list. Well, I'm happy to tell you that all that has changed and I'm now going to take the position that given the proper technique, a couple of tricks, and the aid of a cast iron skillet, flour tortillas are actually the best way to make quick thin-and-crisp, bar-style pizza at home, producing results that are worlds better than any frozen product out there, and a good deal better than the majority of delivery options as well. In fact, I'd even go so far as to say that this technique compares pretty favorably against honest-to-goodness, 100% made-from-scratch bar pies, and that's saying a lot. Here's how to do it. What NOT to do: Use a Baking Stone First of all, there's the preheating time.
Mexican Chicken Casserole Sick of the Mexican dishes yet lol? This is a recipe I've been making for years, I have no idea where it originated from. One of our favorites by far, and the best part is you can stock up on the ingredients when they're on sale. Bonus! Mexican Chicken Casserole1-2 cups cooked, cubed chicken1/2 packet taco seasoning1 can black beans, drained1 can corn, drained with juice reserved3/4 cup salsa1 1/2 cups crushed tortilla chips1 cup shredded cheddar Directions:To a large skillet, add chicken, taco seasoning, black beans, corn, salsa, and 1/2 cup juice from corn. Pour chicken mixture into casserole dish and cover with 1/2 cup shredded cheddar and crushed tortilla chips. Enjoy!
8 Most Delicious Things You Can Do To Potatoes Potatoes are actually a lot healthier than most people think. One of the reasons potatoes have a bad reputation in the dietary world is because of the ways that they are often cooked (fried), but there are lots of delicious ways to cook potatoes to get all of their health benefits. Potatoes are readily available, inexpensive, and come in many varieties, but did you know that they are super nutritious? They contain vitamin B6 and, are a good source of potassium, copper, vitamin C, manganese, phosphorus, niacin, dietary fiber, and pantothenic acid.Potatoes also contain a variety of phytonutrients that have antioxidant activity. Among these important compounds are carotenoids, flavonoids, and caffeic acid, as well as unique tuber storage proteins, such as patatin, which can help against free radicals. Here are a few ways to prepare potatoes that are healthy, delicious, and easy. 1.Crash Hot Potatoes 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. Sources:BuzzfeedWorld’s Healthiest Foods