Red Quinoa with Tomato, Basil, and Mozzarella

It’s a mad dash to the holiday finish line. The other day I looked in the fridge and noticed that it was basically empty.  When did that happen?  I had butter and eggs (and everything else that I needed in the cabinets to make cookies), but I had nothing to make “real food.”  You know, something to eat for dinner (aside from cookies of course).  Please tell me someone else can relate. I went to grocery store yesterday and got something other than cookie ingredients, but I’m still left with the thought of “I don’t want to cook or I don’t have time to …

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Greek Salad

How do you make a Greek salad? If you ask 10 Greeks how to make a Greek salad you’ll get 10 different recipes.  When my husband and I visited Greece, a Greek salad was considered a plate of feta cheese, tomatoes, cucumbers and maybe olive oil.  If that’s what you’re into then check out my recipe for what I call a genuine Greek salad.  I think at the end of the day, if you have good feta cheese then you can’t go wrong with whatever else you add to the plate. A few weeks ago I had dinner with my parents and my …

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Cucumber Quinoa Spinach Salad and Lake George Vacation

Salads are a great way to recover from a food coma. Last weekend was our annual vacation to Lake George, NY with my family.   My family and I used to go when I was kid and now we’ve made it a tradition to go once a year as adults with everyone’s families.  We eat, swim (or in my case lay out by the pool), shop, and eat some more.  It is great to get away from reality and relax.  No agenda.  No calorie counting. Every year I bring a variety of homemade goodies, which always includes cookies of some sort like these …

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Mexican Corn and Quinoa Salad

Yesterday’s lunch is today’s post. In fact, since my husband doesn’t like quinoa, the leftovers were today’s lunch too.  I was so excited with anticipation and couldn’t wait for lunch time to roll around.  This salad is that awesome. I’ve heard of Mexican corn but I never knew exactly what it was until I saw this recipe and got curious enough to look it up.  Mexican (street) corn, also known as elote, is a corn on the cob most commonly served with salt, chili powder, butter, cheese, lemon or lime juice, mayonnaise, and sour cream.  Wow, I’ve been missing out because that sounds fabulous. …

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Summer Salad

Without a doubt my favorite summertime veggie is corn on the cob. I could probably eat corn on the cob everyday.  I guess that’s not a bad thing since it’s a vegetable and it being healthy and all.  My husband is piping up to mention that corn isn’t really a vegetable, even if it is in the vegetable section of the grocery store. Fair warning, I miiight inundate you with corn recipes over the next few weeks.  I’m sorry in advance.  Although if you love corn as much as I do then you’ll thank me.  😉 I just found out that …

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