Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Quinoa Cabbage Salad

Holy crap you guys, I just did something awesome. Actually, today (with help from yesterrday), I did two awesome things, but this is the first post so you're hearing about this first.


Last week a big head of red cabbage arrived in my CSA box. "Pretty!" I thought. I've spent the last 5 days thinking of what to do with it. I've had this phrase kicking around my head--Quinoa Cabbage Salad--but I had few ideas other than shredding up cabbage and putting it in a bowl with some quinoa.

HOWEVER, that is exactly what I did just now, and it is AMAZING. Granted, I added some other things to increase the deliciousness factor, but it's pretty much just quinoa and a heck of a lot of cabbage.

1/2 head red cabbage (bee tee dubs--- this is a TON)
1/2 red onion
1 cup red quinoa
(did I mention this is the Communist Party Salad?)
Chicken breast
Salt and pepper to taste

The thing that I think makes this salad so freaking mouthwateringly scrumptious is the lemon vinaigrette I stirred up. Drizzle some over your completed salad and you will find yourself on a one-way plane to I-made-this-meal-in-under-20-minutes-and-it-tastes-SO-good bliss.

1 part Lemon juice
4 parts Olive oil
Some garlic powder (or minced clove)
Salt
Pepper
MUSTARD. About as much as the lemon juice, I guess.

Basically add them all together and keep adding different things until it tastes right to you. I made enough just for one salad, but you could technically make a bunch and keep it in the fridge for as long as you would regular salad dressing (I assume).

The other secret I should share is that I actually only ate HALF of this in one sitting. I intentionally made more so I could bring some to work tomorrow for lunch.

Sunday, March 15, 2009

Starting again!

I'm sorry, I've been terribly lax about posting. I've been cooking, for sure, I just haven't had time to post about it! My main obstacle has been a nagging insistence on posting pictures with each entry. This is hard. My camera is not that great, and as such any picture I want to post ends up requiring a lot of Photoshop tweaking. Given my obsessive/compulsive tendencies, this ends up taking a long time. So, I don't even start, thereby dooming my posts before I ever even think about writing.

So from now on, I'm going to start writing, and if a photo or two ends up in the post later on, so be it. But I'm not going to keep my bad photos from dooming this blog! Not today!

See below for inspiration/motivation booster.