The second #HAWMC prompt called for an inspiring quote. I’m one of those cheesy losers that already has a collection saved in my gmail inbox. I like motivation. Here are some of my favorites.
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude. -Thomas Jefferson
Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out. -Robert Collier
I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure–which is: Try to please everybody. -Herbert Bayard Swope
Insist on yourself. Never imitate. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
Kinda went overboard with the quotes there, huh. Moving on…
This is the healthiest salad I’ve ever made.
I realize “healthiest” is a fairly subjective term because there’s no real way to measure the health factor of something. Kinda like those ANDI scores that Whole Foods keeps pushing (not gonna happen guys). Although kale does happen to be the tool’s best rated food. This salad wins no matter how you look at it.
If you’re talking about superfoods, this guy has a couple. And if you’re thinking of omega fats, it’s also got you covered. Cancer fighting? Check. And in case you saw the latest 60 minutes, fear not, there’s no fructose (or added sugar) in this recipe.
Best of all, it’s yummy.
Green & Orange Super Salad
[vegan, gluten free]
Base:
- 1 bunch kale, scrubbed and de-stemmed
- 1 cup chopped carrots
- 1 cup cooked quinoa, chilled
- 1/2 baked sweet potato, chilled
- 1/2 avocado
- 2 tbsp hemp seeds
Dressing:
- 2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
- 2 tbsp hempseed oil
- 1 tbsp lemon juice
- 1 tbsp maple syrup
What? You don’t dry your kale on the dish rack? Fine, I’m the weirdo.
This dish took me no time at all (well under 20 minutes) but I had everything already cooked and ready, including the sweet potato and the quinoa. So if you’re not a weekly food prep person, just start making your meal earlier.
After you’ve washed and ripped up your kale, chop the carrots (or cheat and buy the matchstick ones like I did) and the potato and the avocado. And then add in the quinoa and hemp seeds and mix. If you are curious about the flavor of hemp seeds, I’d liken them to pine nuts. They have a mellow, sorta nutty taste. And in this salad they offer a nice contrasting crunch (and stellar nutritional stats).
Yum.
Not weird. When I get home from shopping I do a load of fruit and veg in vinegar water and dry them on the dish rack. It makes perfect sense!
Loving the look of that salad 🙂
this salad looks so delicious and healthy! Can’t wait to try it 🙂
That salad looks pretty healthy to me! And I love the Thomas Jefferson Quote!
can you do a post on how you clean your vegetables? carrots, kale (scrubbed?!), sweet potatoes, etc?
my FAVORITE salad is kale carrot beet red cabbage with tahini dressing. i’d say a close competitor, but this sounds awesome. loving the quinoa addition.
wow this looks amazing! I love all the combinations of your “hippie bowls” elise. They all look so healthy and I imagine with all those superfoods they are extremely satisfying 🙂
This looks like such a good combo, I’ll need to try it out!! I love kale with everything recently…okay maybe not everything
i can just answer here because it’s not overly complex. for the veggies with skin, i scrub with a brush under warm water. i only do this right before im going to use them though because once you wash them they start to turn bad. (basically dont wash all your potatoes in advance or theyll start to sprout)
kale is hard to wash well and because i buy organic it always has bugs and dirt in it. i just use my hands and inspect everything thoroughly.
vinegar water? does that affect the taste? when i wash everything in advance, it doesnt keep as long so i only wash produce right before i eat it/cook with it. does vinegar help it last longer?
Looks good! Misty stole my dish drying rack, he thinks it’s great toy for some reason… but you’re not weird, I’d do the same if Misty hadn’t hidden mine 🙂
I dry my greens in the dish rack all the time! The only place I can get them out of the way while preparing other stuff!!
I want to know the answer to that, too! I would love to clean everything when I come home from the store, but you’re right, Elise, it does start to “decay” faster! So why the vinegar?
I eat almost the exact same salad a few times a week! (minus the maple syrup, but that’s the only difference) Woo!
I love kale and quinoa together – such a powerful duo!
I use the vinegar to clean them well. It doesn’t taste vinegary because you only need a little- but if you want to make sure you could rinse them.
I don’t have any problems with stuff going bad because we eat it so fast! The only time I’ve seen it happen is if I pre-chop too. So I pop it in water… for example if I pre-chop lettuce I put water in the container and refrigerate and they keep for much longer and stay crispy. I’m sure it would work with other leafy greens too but I haven’t tried…
agreed! you have good taste 🙂
Yay! I’m going to try this salad ASAP! I’ll have to swap some other dark leafy green for the kale, though. Austrians don’t seem to be that fond of kale. (And I don’t get why.) Thanks! xx
laaaame. aussies are so ahead of the curve on FODMAPs, they need to get on board with kale too!
Making this tomorrow night! YUM!
What I personally do is have this 3quart mixing bowl of vegetables which I eat within the week. Ill wash portions of certain vegetables so its a pleasing ratio that can all fit into this bowl. The way I wash stuff is to rinse it off and then let it sit for something like half an hour on a strainer or colander, but a lot of the time my roomates leave it dirty so I just place it on a plate- like Il wash each piece then place it on, and then when theyre all rinsed I tip the plate over to get as much water off as possible, and then I just leave it there and the water seeps off it and it air dries. I dont time it I just leave it there and before I know it Ill wander back and its all nice and not covered in water. If its some leafy thing like kale Ill then shake each off before ripping it and putting it into the bowl but if its like mushrooms that doesnt really have any effect so if I feel like it sat in too much water on the bottom I might dab it with a paper towel. So if you do it that way the vegetables arent all moist so they dont go bad and they can age like regular unwashed veggies.
The only thing I have found that gets slimy too quick is cucumber, so I dont put use that. Also the way I store it is covered with plastic wrap over the top and in the fridge.
When the bowl is empty you should wash it before filling it with new stuff again to keep it nice and not get all gross.
I guess I should say all the things I usually put in it- ripped kale, collards, prewashed lettuce, red cabbage, quartered logs of zuchinni, a few baby carrots, full button mushrooms, green onion thats torn in two so it fits in the bowl, cherry tomatoes…thats all that comes to mind at the moment. Also I try to have everything in its section or if it works out that way its layer, not all mixed about. What usually happens is that the leafy greens are the main ingredient and then Ill periodically add more of the accompanying veggies and it goes lower so that the ratios are consistently balanced, and then when the leafy greens run out for good the other veggies are almost done anyway so when thats all eaten is when I then wash it and then fill it up with the main bulk of the greens again.
Sorry Im being long winded lol, hope you give it a try,
Oh yeah, one veg I forgot is broccoli. Lovely raw broccoli which makes a delightful snack. And celery, too. Well you get the jist of the thing.