Tag: salad

Some Salads For You

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How often is too often to write about salad on this blog?  Is this a question I should pose to my therapist next time I’m in?  Regardless of the answer to either of those questions, I’ve got some salad recipes to share with you, in case, like Tanya, salads are your life.* Or, like me, you pack one just about every dang day for lunch and need some inspiration.

*Help, we’ve been watching a lot of Parks and Recreation.

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Sweet Potato Farro Salad

The more the merrier when it comes to salad mix-ins.

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Autumn Glow Salad

Let’s hear it for a tahini spiral drizzle!

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Vegetarian Cobb Salad

Sometimes I just do not have the energy to make that coconut bacon, but even without it, this salad is great.

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Vitamin Glow Warm Squash Salad

Follow the recipe if you must, but cold squash and a whole half an avocado per salad is highly recommended.

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Roasted Carrot Salad with Quinoa, Chickpeas and Everyday Dressing

This dressing was unlike any I’d had before.  It’s heavy on tahini and nutritional yeast, which means it’s creamy and savory and might take some getting used to, but in the end, I dug it.

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Corn & Chickpea Bowl with Miso-Jalapeño Tahini

If you’re not sold at “Miso-Jalapeño Tahini,” then we probably won’t get along, but in case you’re still skeptical, just know that Bon Appétit and I would never steer you wrong.

I hope you enjoy one of these soon and if you’re a fellow salad lover, please tell me your favorite combo.  Don’t hold out on me now!

Weekend Things

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Hi, how are you on this Monday morning?  Now that it’s November and darkness is closing in on us from both ends of the day, I’m back to working out at the gym.  Today was our first time back and I think I might be riding that endorphin/coffee high, so if this energy is too much for you, maybe check back later 🙂

Anyway, I hope you had a wonderful weekend.  I hope you got to fit in one last post-work outdoor run then made your husband pick you out a beer before he left for the Nuggets game.  I hope you watched a good movie and only felt a little guilty for watching it without your husband.  I hope you got to eat Saturday breakfast across from your best friend, who you might not see again until she has A BABY (oh my god!) and I hope you spent the rest of Saturday being half productive, half relaxed and fully happy.  I hope you slept an extra hour on Sunday then celebrated with pancakes and coffee before heading out to see a movie at Denver Film Fest, then took yourself to lunch because Sunday shouldn’t always just be about meal prep and laundry.  I hope you watched the Shameless premiere in your pajamas and ate a crockpot meal for dinner and decided November is going to be a good month.

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Made myself this salad for dinner and it took WAY TOO LONG but then tasted so good that I’d still probably make it again.

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During breakfast at Snooze, Hannah told me she was going home to pack a hospital bag and then Josh told her to put his Xbox in there.  I can’t stop laughing about that!  Spent the rest of the day re-staining our garden boxes, grocery shopping, voting, watching A LOT of Transparent, baking granola and maybe falling asleep during a boring episode of SNL. 

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Took us FOR-EV-ER to choose between all the films at Denver Film Fest and we kept running into sold out shows but finally landed on Humor Me and it was seriously SO GOOD!  We both gave it a 5/5 on our movie ballot and have been re-telling jokes from it ever since ♥ 

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Denver Central Market and Greenseed, in particular, for the lunch time win!

P.S. What if you kind of like when it gets dark early because it makes it feel really acceptable to put your pajamas on and cozy up on the couch as soon as you get home from work?  Asking for a friend 🙂