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Sprout-Purple Cabbage-Pumpkin Seed-Tomato Salad

Sprout-Purple Cabbage-Pumpkin Seed-Tomato Salad

I can’t believe how much I’ve enjoyed this salad. Yumm just doesn’t describe it. Layered at the bottom of the bowl is a layer of mixed sprouts (alfalfa-red clover-fenugreek sprouts). Next, a generous scoop of the salad I mentioned yesterday — shredded purple cabbage, mung bean sprouts and lentil sprouts, tossed in our favorite dressing. [...]

Seasoned Shredded Chicken for Rice Bowls

Seasoned Shredded Chicken for Rice Bowls

Seasoned Chicken for Rice Bowls

1 free-range, organic chicken
1 teaspoon sea salt
1/4 teaspoon black pepper
1 tablespoon cumin
1/2 tablespoon paprika
1 tablespoon nutritional yeast
1 cup water

Cook the chicken overnight in the crockpot.

Allow the chicken to cool enough to for handling; remove the meat from the bones. Put the meat back into the (washed) crockpot. Reserve bones for making [...]

Seasoned Black Beans for Rice Bowls

Seasoned Black Beans for Rice Bowls

A great way to make a double batch of this is to cook 5 cups of dry black beans in the crockpot overnight. Use a 4- to 5-quart crockpot. In the morning, you’ll have 15 cups of cooked black beans, which will make the following recipe twice. Use half the beans for the first batch [...]

Yummy Chicken Salad

Yummy Chicken Salad

With the weather warming up, we sure feel like having lighter, cooler foods. This is a deliciously simple chicken salad. We like to eat it with Quinoa Dinner Cakes. Yesterday when we were out clearing brush and cleaning up our property, I brought out a bowl of this chicken salad and a bunch of the [...]

Chicken Chili

Chicken Chili

Chicken Chili

1 onion, diced
2 to 3 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
meat from 1/2 to 1 whole cooked chicken
8 cups cooked beans (such as pinto or kidney, or both)
1 28-ounce can diced tomatoes
1 6-ounce can tomato paste
4 cups water
2 tablespoons cumin
1 tablespoon paprika
1 teaspoon thyme
1 teaspoon oregano
pinch of cayenne pepper, or as much as desired
2 teaspoons [...]