My latest quinoa salad was fantastic, and the best part was that it yielded way more than I expected!
What’s a girl to do?
This was an everything but the kitchen sink everything in the fridge kind of salad…including a Strawberry Shortcake coloring book.
It had leftover broccoli, leftover sweet potatoes, leftover quinoa, and a new product too!
Quorn Naked Chik’n Cultets do have trace amounts of egg whites, so they aren’t vegan. But I had never seen them before and they were on sale, so why the heck not?
Here they are in all their frozen glory.
And here they are after a few minutes in the micro. They are easy peasy, I’ll give them that! It may even outweigh the laundry list of ingredients.
I then added the diced chik’n to the top of the salad beast (seen above).
If you thought I was exaggerating about the salad’s contents, think again:
- spinach
- mixed lettuce
- steamed sweet potatoes
- steamed broccoli
- raw sweet peas
- avocado
- leftover quinoa
- Quorn chik’n
Eaten outside with the sunshine beating down on me. Pure bliss.
It was so good in fact, that later that night I had the rest of the quinoa for dinner.
I know, I know, you’re probably rolling your eyes going AGAIN!?! Lately I’ve been pretty good about avoiding food ruts, but when I find a good thing, some times it’s hard to deny myself.
Even if it is something as contradictory as fake chik’n and a wholesome clean quinoa dish.
Now the leftovers are all gone :( Please sir, can I have some more!?
I love everything salads! Eat them all the time 🙂 Yours looks so colorful!
All of the cool kids get into food ruts 😉
That quinoa salad is so colorful I’d gladly get in it’s rut!
Thank you, sir! May I have another?
love animal house haha
i get in food ruts for lack of a better word when all i wanna do is eat the same thing for like a week. i actually love those quorn cutlets but the ingredient list is kinda wacky
I know what you mean about hitting a good thing and not being able to leave it the heck alone. I do that too. All the time. But if I find something I love it’s so hard not to eat it all the time!
Quinoa…I have a stack of quinoa salad recipes in my head that I need to unearth.
Haha, at least you are in a quinoa rut… I’m in a raw vegan brownie rut over here… could be worse 😉
i guess we’re both in food ruts because my dinner was so good last night i did it again tonight.
i’m fine with food ruts hahah
Those Quorn cutlets are pretty convenient–I like to use them for a faux chicken salad with grapes, walnuts, & vegan mayo.
Yum. That sounds great!
This sounds delish! I’m glad I found your blog. Definitely a good day for blog surfing. 🙂
Awww, thanks! It’s a great dish, so I’m glad you found me too 🙂
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