Seared Tuna with Micro Greens and Spinach With Balsamic Dressing
A simple lunch using whatever greens you have on hand–micro greens are delicious and bursting with nutrition. Can often be found at your farmer’s market or health food store. If you cannot find them, pick up some sprouted seeds–radish, sunflower, etc. Add in some...
Mediterranean Chicken and Veggies
Keeping a rotisserie chicken on hand is the best way to find a base for an easy and quick lunch or dinner. Try this one from my friend who is making a wonderful documentary about What to Eat. Mediterranean Veggies with Rotisserie Chicken Ingredients Eggplant Red...
Damn Big Salad!
My local healthy grocery store has an amazing little salad bar with organic veggies. I go there almost daily, I mean DAILY for a salad. I try to vary it some, but usually just end up getting a bit of everything–as far as veggies go. I mean, even if you are eating a...
Zoodle Artichoke Spaghetti
Zoodles are the new noodles! Full of nutrition, and LOW CARB! No more fattening, gluten-y pasta. Zoodles are the fat burning version of yumminess. I just got a Veggie/Noodle maker so I thought I’d give it a try. You can buy these gizmos at Target or any local kitchen...
Venison Steak with Root Vegetables
An easy dinner with summer’s harvest veggies. This is a venison steak, thanks to our friend Mark, but you can buy a delicious grass fed steak too! Add in some local, fresh green beans and some sauteed root veggies (we used potatoes, carrots and squash), with a little...
Vegetable Chicken Soup
I was fighting off a cold today and the Boulder weather was unusually cloudy and chilly today. So vegetable soup seemed the answer! This has chicken in it, but you can easily make it vegetarian or add beef instead. Chicken Vegetable Soup Ingredients 1 lb or so chopped...
Sockeye Salmon Salad
Did you know all sockeye is wild caught? This is a big plus, so you know you are getting the best fatty oils and healthiest type of fish you can eat. Try this delicious salad! Sockeye Salmon Salad Most any type of wild caught salmon works in this salad, but sockeye...
Mango/Peach Chicken Salad
It’s too hot to cook right now, so a cooling, refreshing, slightly sweet and tangy salad with chicken just hits the spot! Peaches are in season most places but you can also use mangos or a combination of those bright yellow, vitamin A filled juicy fruits. Ingredients...
Spicy Black Bean Veggie Salad
Black beans are rich in healthy fiber, which makes them a satisfying low glycemic snack, and they are full of a very potent antioxidant, anthocyanin—the same kind of antioxidants that grapes and blueberries are rich in! Of any bean, black beans contain by far the most...
Healthiest Cobb Salad
A healthier, more up to date version of the classic Cobb salad. Definitely heart enough for a meal in itself. You can always vary the ingredients according to what you have on hand, and the brighter and more colorful, the better! The addition of watercress and arugula...
Garden Fresh Gazpacho
Gazpacho is the perfect soup of summer. Refreshingly cool on a hot summer day, this classic Spanish soup combines the best of summers most nutrient rich vegetables. This soup is always best when you can use locally grown and picked at their peak vegetables. Not only...
Salmon-Veggie Thai Stirfry
Kale, Broccoli and Salmon Stirfry This is good for a quick breakfast too! (I’d omit the wine, however!) Add an egg for the protein or any kind of breakfast meat, leftover salmon or leftover meat you like. One of my favorite go-to meals is to take any meat leftovers...
Maya Beach Chopped Salad
I was in Belize between Christmas and New Year’s and my favorite place was Maya Beach. We stayed at a wonderful cottage at a lovely resort with a fantastic restaurant on the beach. My very favorite dish there was their “Chopped Salad”. I think I actually ordered it at...
Wine Country Chicken and Asparagus Salad
I have some beautiful fresh basil growing right outside my door, and it grows like crazy so, I am going use as much fresh basil as I can! This recipe was adapted from a recipe from the Robert Mondavi Winery in Napa Valley. It makes a perfect meal with high quality...
Paleo Quiche
This recipe does not use a crust, but you can, however, make this using a gluten free (or regular crust), a grain-free crust like this, or line the pan with thinly sliced potatoes for a *potato crust (see below). Ingredients 1 package frozen spinach or kale, defrosted...
