EARTH DAY recipeS: EAT GREEN
What better way to celebrate Earth Day than to eat environmentally friendly, healthy and green!
Our Lady of weight loss's Earth Day recipes feature seasonal fruit, veggies and heaps of good energy! Not your usual salads! These ARE exciting! Woo Hoo!
Salacious Strawberry & Fabulous Feta Salad
Ingredients:
1 cup slivered almonds
2 cloves garlic, minced
1 teaspoon honey
1 teaspoon Dijon mustard
1/4 cup fig balsamic vinegar
1 head romaine lettuce, torn
1 pint fresh strawberries, sliced
1/2 cup crumbled feta cheese
Instructions:
In a skillet over medium-high heat, cook the almonds, stirring frequently, until lightly toasted. Remove from heat, and set aside.
In a bowl, whisk together the garlic, honey, Dijon mustard, and fig balsamic vinegar.
And now, in a large bowl, toss together the toasted almonds, romaine lettuce, strawberries, and feta cheese.
Drizzle dressing over the salad and toss!
Our Lady of weight loss finds that there's no need for oil dressings when cheese is a part of the recipe. Try it! You'll like it!
Beatific Baby Spinach and Apple Salad
Ingredients:
2 (6 ounce) packages fresh baby spinach
1 medium sweet apple, chopped
1/3 cup raisins
3 tablespoons chopped peanuts, raw (not salted or roasted)
1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil
2 tablespoons balsamic vinegar
1 tablespoon mango chutney
3/4 teaspoon curry powder
sprinkle of salt
Instructions:
In a large bowl, combine the spinach, apple, raisins and peanuts.
Then, simply, combine the remaining ingredients in a tight-fitting jar. Shake it up, baby! Drizzle over salad and toss.
Best EVER Fruit Salad
Ingredients:
2 medium sweet apples, chopped
2 nectarines, pitted and chopped
2 plums, pitted and chopped
1/3 cup raisins
1 cup green grapes, no pits please!
1 container of raspberries (organic frozen if you can't find fresh)
juice of 1 fresh lemon
drizzle honey (not so much)
Instructions:
In medium sized bowl mix together all the fruit.
Then the juice of the one lemon and the drizzle of honey.
Toss.
Enjoy!!! These three salads are meals within themselves. Go Green; Go healthy!
Spread the healthy word … NOT the icing!
Janice
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Janice Taylor is a Life & Wellness Coach, the author of the Our Lady of weight loss books.
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