Salads – Tina's Chic Corner

Hummus and Quinoa Salad

June 21st, 2017Tina0 Comments

What motivates you to workout? The other day someone asked me how I stay motivated to workout six days a week. The answer is I like food. All joking aside, I’ve always been pretty good about sticking with a workout routine. I feel that it’s good for the body and the mind. I even work out when I’m on vacation. Yup, I’m serious and my husband can vouch for me. I still manage to gain weight on vacation, mind you, but it does help to counteract all of the extra calories that I consume. Food, on the other hand, is my downfall because… …

Spring Salad

May 17th, 2017Tina2 Comments

I don’t like naming a recipe after a season because no one but you knows what that really means. However any other title that I came up with was just too dang long and I don’t like that even more. This is a Caprese salad with lettuce, chickpeas, and pasta with a balsamic vinaigrette dressing. See what I mean? It’s a mouthful. Now that tomatoes and basil are in season around here I’ve deemed this a Spring salad. You can call it what you like, but at the end of the day it’s a bowl full of deliciousness and that’s …

Pesto Quinoa with Roasted Vegetables and Chickpeas

April 19th, 2017Tina0 Comments

Quinoa is like sprinkles. My husband wholeheartedly disagrees with that statement on the basis of quinoa being gross, and sprinkles not being gross. I don’t mean how they taste though. I know that sprinkles and quinoa are two very different ingredients and that they are not normally found in one recipe. (Thank goodness!) However, every time I cook with either one I end up spilling them all over the kitchen counters and floor. No matter how much I clean I still find some days later. Am I the only one that experiences this? Anyway, I’ve been on a quinoa kick lately and this …

Italian Chopped Salad

January 30th, 2017Tina0 Comments

Wow, writer’s block stinks. I blame January. It’s the middle of winter, it’s cold, it’ dark all the time, and there’s absolutely nothing interesting going on. Nothing. At. All. I suppose one could say that finding a new salad recipe is interesting but that’s not what I really had in mind. I’m really into this salad combo, but I’m especially loving the Kalamata olives and chickpeas. And this salad dressing is the bomb digity. I have to admit that I’m not always in the mood to make a dressing because it tends to take too much time, but this one is quick …

Sweet Potato and Hard Boiled Egg Salad

January 18th, 2017Tina0 Comments

I don’t usually like unitaskers. You know, a kitchen gadget that only has one purpose. However, I have an exception today. I’m talking about an Eggsact Egg Timer. It was one of the best things that we registered for when we got married. I don’t mean to sound like a infomercial but this thing really works and it’s under $5! Yes, we registered for something that was only $5. You never know what someone’s budget is and we wanted to make sure everyone had a shot at it. That was eight years ago and we still use it all the time. It …