Healthy Salad Recipes: Brown Rice & Black Bean Salad

Brown Rice Healthy Salad Recipe

Today, I share a salad recipe that I’ve been eating most weekdays for lunch. After reviewing many healthy salad recipes, I found this salad recipe to be filling and satisfying, not to mention it’s packed with fiber, protein and nutrients. I like that it’s colorful, crunchy, chewy, sweet, sour … it satisfies all of my [...]

10 Refreshing Watermelon Salad Recipes

Watermelon Salad Recipes

Watermelon is summertime. There isn’t a better fruit to contrast and cut through the hot, muggy weather. It’s commonly eaten in slices, chunks or balls. However, there are many fine recipes that turn the ordinary melon into an extraordinary salad. From sweet to savory, and everywhere in between, the following watermelon salad recipes are sure [...]

10 Unique Egg Salad Recipes

Unique Egg Salad Reicpes

Egg salad is one of those things that people either seem to love or hate. It is nostalgic for some, and for others, it brings wrinkled noses. There are a great number of egg salad variations though, and it’s likely there’s one below that can turn a hater into a lover. Think of your egg [...]

Poppy Seed Dressing & Cashew Salad Recipe

Poppyseed Dressing Recipe

A family favorite, cashew cream cheese salad with poppy seed dressing is one of the first recipes I copied from my mother’s recipe card file. I took the recipe to college and made it occasionally when I was missing home. I even made it once for a work event and everyone raved about it. A [...]

Sesame Broccoli Salad Recipe

Sesame Broccoli Salad

This past week of school turned out to be much more mellow than expected. I had most of my nights free from studying so I was able to spend some much-needed time in the kitchen. When classes started in February, I made the decision to eat healthier. Each day I start out by having probiotic [...]

Caprese Salad with Olives

Easy Caprese Salad

I should have titled this post, ‘shamelessly simple’. It’s quick to prepare and contains a powerful blend of flavors from the sweet tomatoes, creamy fresh mozzarella, salty pitted olives, torn basil leaves, salt, cracked pepper, and golden extra virgin olive oil. This may be the first time I’ve actually put the entire recipe in the [...]

Spicy Baked Beans

Spicy Baked Beans

It’s childish, I know. But beans always remind me of the saying, “Beans, beans, a magical fruit. The more you eat, the more you toot!”. I always sang it at the dinner table when my mother baked beans. Even though I don’t sing it as loudly or off key as I once did, I’m sure [...]