Warm (and YUMMY) Quinoa Salad Recipe

Warm Quinoa Salad with Edamame & Tarragon

From: EatingWell

Quinoa, a super food from South America, is packed with protein and fiber. Toasting it gives it a slightly nutty taste, a complement to the walnuts and a foil to the lemony tarragon dressing. Try this salad over greens of any sort: fresh arugula, Boston lettuce leaves or wilted spinach.

Servings: 4 servings, 1 1/2 cups each

Prep: 25 mins

Total: 25 mins

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INGREDIENTS

1 cup  quinoa, (see Note)

2 cups  vegetable broth

2 cups  frozen shelled edamame, thawed (10 ounces)

1 tablespoon  freshly grated lemon zest

2 tablespoons  lemon juice

2 tablespoons  extra-virgin olive oil

2 tablespoons  chopped fresh tarragon or 2 teaspoons dried

1/2 teaspoon  salt

1/2 cup  drained and diced jarred roasted red peppers, (3 ounces)

1/4 cup  chopped walnuts, preferably toasted (see Cooking Tip)

DIRECTIONS

1. Toast quinoa in a dry skillet over medium heat, stirring often, until it becomes aromatic and begins to crackle, about 5 minutes. Transfer to a fine sieve and rinse thoroughly.

2. Meanwhile, bring broth to a boil in a medium saucepan over high heat. Add the quinoaand return to a boil. Cover, reduce heat to a simmer and cook gently for 8 minutes. Remove the lid and, without disturbing the quinoa, add edamame. Cover and continue to cook until the edamame and quinoa are tender, 7 to 8 minutes longer. Drain any remaining water, if necessary.

3. Whisk lemon zest and juice, oil, tarragon and salt in a large bowl. Add peppers and thequinoa mixture. Toss to combine. Divide among 4 plates and top with walnuts.

Tips:
Note: Quinoa is a delicately flavored grain that was a staple in the ancient Incas' diet. It is available in most natural-foods stores and the natural-foods sections of many supermarkets. Toasting the grain before cooking enhances its flavor and rinsing removes any residue of saponin, quinoa's natural, bitter protective covering.

Cooking Tip: To toast walnuts: Cook in a small dry skillet over medium-low heat, stirring constantly, until fragrant, 2 to 4 minutes.

MAKE AHEAD TIP: Prepare through Step 3. Cover and refrigerate for up to 2 days.

NUTRITION FACTS

Calories 404, Total Fat 18 g, Saturated Fat 1 g, Monounsaturated Fat 6 g, Sodium 645 mg, Carbohydrate 46 g, Fiber 16 g, Protein 17 g, Potassium 319 mg. Daily Values: Vitamin A 20%, Vitamin C 20%, Iron 25%. Exchanges: Starch 3, Lean Meat 1, Fat 3.
Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet

Reading from Vinyasa Yoga Class

Desirée's Favorite Green Smoothie

as featured in Yoga Journal March 2013

Yoga teacher Desirée Rumbaugh makes one every morning-even on the road.

Ingredients

Makes 4-6 servings

1 cup coconut water or water
1 cup kale leaves, roughly chopped
1 cup chard leaves, roughly chopped
1 cup parsley
1/2 cucumber
Juice of 1/2 lime
1 pear or apple, cored, roughly chopped
Frozen mango, blueberries, pineapple, or banana, to taste

Directions

1. Process your vegetables with liquids in the blender. Add fruit to taste, depending on how sweet you like your smoothies.

Reprinted from Eat Green Recipe Book by Cate Stillman and Desirée Rumbaugh.

Readings from Yoga Classes

Hello everyone!

I've had some inquiries recently about the quotes and readings I share in class.  My apologies for not being diligent in posting them on a more frequent basis.  This post should bring me up-to-date!  

Thanks for inquiring and reading and please share freely!  ~ Sheila

The grass is not, in fact, not always greener on the other side of the fence.

Fences have nothing to do with it.

The grass is greenest where it is watered.

When crossing over fences, carry water with you and tend the grass wherever you may be.

~ Robert Fulghum

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Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul; 

the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.

~ Napolean Hill

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I beg you to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart

and to try to love the questions themselves

as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language.  

Don't search for the answers, which could not be given to you now 

because you would not be able to live them.

And the point is to live everything.

Live the questions now.

Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually,

without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.

~ Rainer Maria Rilke

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For attractive lips, speak words of kindness.

For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people.

For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry.

For beautiful hair, let a child run his hands through your hair once a day.

For poise, walk with the knowledge that you never walk alone.

People, even more than things, 

have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed;

never throw out anyone.

~ Audrey Hepburn

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Everything that has a beginning has an ending.

Make your peace with that and all will be well.

~ Buddha

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Enjoy the little things for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.

~ Robert Brault

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It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new.

But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful.

There is more security in the adventurous and exciting,

for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.

~ Alan Cohen

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Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle,

and the life of the candle will not be shortened.

Happiness never decreases by being shared.

~ Siddhartha Gautama

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Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

~ Dr. Karl Augustus Menninger