Showing posts with label beets. Show all posts
Showing posts with label beets. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 14, 2020

How To Caramelize Onions & An Easy, Healthy Quinoa, Beet and Onion Wrap Recipe (Vegan)


Each January I put a renewed focus on healthy eating, primarily by increasing my intake of fruit and vegetables. For the most part, though, I try to eat healthy foods all year round, and I don't like to create stress around eating. I believe that nutritious food can go hand in hand with delicious food. Take this easy, yummy sandwich wrap, for example. This recipe makes for a simple-to-prepare, healthy lunch or dinner option.

This easy quinoa wrap requires only a handful of ingredients - the key to its delicious flavour is caramelized onions. Truth be told, I use onions in almost every dinner recipe I make. In fact, my son says my hands always smell like onions. I’m not offended - onions make every meal better. (You can always dip your fingers in lemon juice if the smell bothers you.) This month, I'm bringing you two ideas for simple, healthy meals to make with Idaho-Eastern Oregon Spanish Sweet Onions, beginning with this tortilla sandwich wrap. I'll have another delicious recipe for you soon.

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Monday, February 13, 2017

Beet-ing Hearts Blood Orange Smoothie for Valentine's Day and Beyond (vegan & gluten-free)

If your Valentine is still full on with his or her new year's health kick, this Beet-ing Hearts Blood Orange Smoothie is a great option for saying "I care." It's delicious, smooth, creamy and a bit sweet, while containing health-protective ingredients like beets, blood orange, strawberries, chia seeds and coconut oil.

If your Valentine is still full on with his or her new year's health kick, this Beet-ing Hearts Blood Orange Smoothie is a great option for saying "I care." It's delicious, smooth, creamy and a bit sweet, while containing health-protective ingredients like beets, blood orange, strawberries, chia seeds and coconut oil.

Wednesday, November 2, 2016

Arugula and Mixed Greens Salad With Avocado, Pumpkin Seeds & Roasted Beets

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If you're like me, you love beets but you don't often prepare them. They can be messy right!? They turn your hands red. They stain your cutting board and maybe even your clothes. And the thought of storing them in a normal storage container brings visions of a plastic container forever lined with beet markings. But I think we need to give beets a second chance. The pigments that give beets that rich colour are antioxidants that may provide health benefits. Beets are especially great in winter. They are energizing for your body and they're high in immune-boosting vitamin C, as well as fibre, manganese and potassium.

I'm going to tell you how to roast and peel beets with minimal mess. We'll put them on top of a healthy mixed greens salad with other beneficial ingredients like avocado and pumpkin seeds. (Pumpkin seeds provide you with zinc to help you ward off colds this season!) And we'll store our salad in Rubbermaid Brilliance storage containers, which are stain resistant and therefore not afraid of no beets!

Wednesday, April 11, 2012

What I Ate Wednesday, featuring Apple Fritter Cake


I am happy to be participating in another What I Ate Wednesday with the party gang at Peas & Crayons.

Rather than looking at one day of eating, I am sharing some highlights from the week. Highlights here basically means those times I thought to grab the camera.


In keeping with the April Veg Pledge Challenge, I ate a big salad for lunch one day, and topped it with strawberries, grated beets, pears, craisins and walnuts. Kind of sweet (and red) but that’s how I like it!

I am not normally a salad for lunch kind of gal. I like lots of warm food.


Another day’s lunch was some leftover pasta with homemade marinara sauce. I cooked some carrots in the sauce like my Italian mother-in-law does. Yummy!


My husband made some vegan blueberry pancakes for Easter Sunday breakfast.


We followed the pancakes up with some fruit salad.


Easter Monday dinner was baked tofu, steamed broccoli, roasted beets and quinoa with peas and mushrooms. I liked the beets best of all.


Yesterday, I was in the mood to bake once again, so I veganized a cake recipe from Edna Staebler.

She was a bold woman, not afraid of sugar and oil!

I chose an apple cake recipe, because I keep getting apples in my organic produce deliveries.

The family is getting tired of eating them, but I figured they wouldn’t mind eating some more apples via a nice cake.

This cake reminds me of an apple fritter donut. It is a little crispy on the outside and softer in the middle.

It is on the sweeter side so you will probably want to serve smaller pieces. Or maybe not! Maybe, like my husband, you will want to add some ice cream too!

Apple Fritter Cake with Walnuts


by Joann MacDonald
Cook Time: 40 to 45 minutes
Keywords: bake dessert vegan vegetarian walnuts apples cake

Ingredients (1 large cake)
    For the Cake
    • 2 tsp egg replacer mixed with 4 Tbsp water
    • 2 cups sugar
    • 1 cup light oil
    • 3 cups flour (I use light spelt)
    • 1 tsp baking soda
    • 1/2 tsp salt
    • 3 cups peeled, cored and chopped apples
    • 2 tsp vanilla
    • 1/2 cup chopped walnuts
    • 1/2 cup non-dairy milk
    For the Frosting
    • 1 cup brown sugar
    • 1/4 cup non-dairy milk
    • 1/4 cup margarine
    Instructions

    Preheat oven to 350°F.

    Grease a 9" x 13" pan.

    Whisk together egg replacer mixture, sugar and oil.

    Sift together flour, baking soda and salt. Stir into egg replacer mixture.

    Stir in apples, vanilla, nuts and milk. Mix well.

    Smooth into prepared pan.

    Bake for about 40 to 45 minutes. Test with a knife or toothpick.

    Prepare frosting by mixing all ingredients together in a pot and boiling for two minutes.

    Drizzle frosting over warm cake. Allow to cool.

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