Category: Recipes

Dirty Quinoa

Posted on by Lisa P

Serves: 3-4 people
Hands-on time: 15-20 min
Total time: 30 min

This recipe for “dirty” quinoa is adapted from the dirty rice I used to make all the time when I was single and cooking was a low priority.  I also used to chop up hotdogs and throw them in to make a meal, but um I don’t do that anymore. Now it’s just clean, whole, unprocessed food for me.  I sure wish they made a natural hotdog flavor I could add to a dish to get my hotdog fix.  Anyway, enough about hot dogs, let’s make some dirty quinoa!

Ingredients

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Classic Rice and Beans

Posted on by Lisa P

Use the beans recipe here, but make the below adjustments.

http://www.geniuskitchen.com/recipe/classic-black-beans-and-rice-46221

Adjustments:

  1. Don’t use sazon, it has MSG in it, just add some adobo seasoning instead, or a mix of garlic powder, paprika and salt.
  2. Double the recipe
  3. This will taste way better if you use beans you’ve cooked from dried and stored in your freezer using this recipe.  Home cooked beans are always better than canned.
  4. Serve over long grain brown rice, not white rice.

Super Easy Baked Chicken Breasts

Posted on by Lisa P

Serves: 4-8 people
Hands-on time: 5 min
Total time: 30 min

This recipe for baked chicken breasts is truly super easy.  Baked (or roasted) chicken breasts can easily dry out and taste tough, but this recipe gives consistently moist, delicious results.

Ingredients

2 to 2-1/2 lbs chicken breasts (chicken thighs work well too but have a different nutritional profile)
1 Tbsp Olive oil
1-1/2 Tbsp Adobo or other seasoning blend Continue reading “Super Easy Baked Chicken Breasts” →

Steamed Cod with Potatoes and Green Beans

Posted on by Lisa P

Serves: 2-4 people
Hands-on time: 10 min
Total time: 25 min

The title says it like it is – this easy recipe steams cod, potatoes and green beans all in the same pan at once.  Simple and delicious!  I kind of threw this recipe together one night when I was in a hurry, and it came out so good I could hardly believe it took only 5 ingredients and a little over 20 minutes.

Ingredients

1 lb cod or other thick flaky white fish
2 large red-skin potatoes
8 oz fresh green beans
3/4 C chicken or vegetable broth
1 sm jar marinated artichoke hearts Continue reading “Steamed Cod with Potatoes and Green Beans” →

Cod en Papilotte

Posted on by Lisa P

Serves: 3-4 people
Hands-on time: 20 min
Total time: 35 min

This Cod en Papilotte recipe seems hard at first.  Then you realize that this is the whole meal, there’s nothing else to do but this!  In fact you barely have anything to clean up afterwards.  Wow, what a gift.

Ingredients

  • Several huge handfuls of baby kale, spinach, or supergreens
  • Green cabbage
  • Fennel (optional)
  • 1 lb cod or other thick flaky white fish
  • 1/2 lb or so of mushrooms, shiitake or cremini
  • Lemon
  • Fresh parsley and/or cilantro (optional) or dried
    • Could also use oregano, dill, or tarragon, if you prefer
  • Salt and pepper
  • Olive oil

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Basic Homemade Vinaigrette Dressing

Posted on by Lisa P

Hands-on time: 5 min
Total time: 20 min

This recipe for a basic homemade vinaigrette is one I made up about a year ago and have been using ever since.  The one important thing to remember about homemade vinaigrette dressings is that the oil and vinegar separate quite easily, unlike the packaged kinds.  That’s because the packaged ones have additives (called emulsifiers) that keep them from separating as easily.  So shake the bottle every time you pour it, and you’ll be fine.  It’s a small price to pay to avoid eating fake ingredients. Continue reading “Basic Homemade Vinaigrette Dressing” →