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Flatout Kale Salad Wraps with Grapes

Maris Callahan — Tue, 05 Aug 2014 00:57:56 +0000

Kale used to be a leafy green vegetable best left to health food nuts and smoothie addicts. These days, this leafy green is so popular that we could be facing a shortage (no kidding). This veggie has swept the nation — and not just because of its popularity in juice fasts. It’s become a choice alternative to an ordinary, lifeless, and plain lettuce in salads. If you’re anything like myself, you will take any chance you can to make your veggie portions a little bit more exciting. The new “queen of greens” is definitely worth the hype. But why not make it even more awesome? Instead of just amping up your salad routine, stuff a cheese-laced kale salad into a fabulous wrap (like the ones made by our friends at Flatout) with sweet grapes for a fabulous lunch on the go. Genius, right? Why is kale so popular though? It certainly doesn’t hurt that kale is super healthy. A member of the same veggie family as cabbage, collards, broccoli and (the also trendy!) Brussels sprouts, kale is rich in nutrients. But let’s face it: healthy doesn’t mean tasty. But kale? It is! Ok, I admit that I was a little skeptical […]

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Lemon Quinoa Salad

Maris Callahan — Mon, 20 Jan 2014 20:18:33 +0000

Quinoa has become an absurdly popular kitchen staple for even the most reluctant home cook, but a lot of us barely know how to pronounce it, let alone know what it actually is. Lets just say that there was a steep learning curve from the time I made quinoa to the time I mastered a lemon quinoa salad as pretty and as veggie-full as this one. Cultivated in the Andes for over 5,000 years, quinoa has been dubbed the “the gold of the Incas.” With a slightly nutty taste and as a source of protein, iron, magnesium and fiber, quinoa is one of our healthiest and easiest pantry staples. This salad is packed with super food properties and flavored with lemon juice and a little bit of honey. You could easily substitute ingredients here: green, orange or yellow pepper for red pepper or golden raisins instead of currants to add sweetness. Quinoa is one of the most versatile things you can cook, but before we start, let’s talk basics. How much cooked quinoa will I need to make? 1 cup dry quinoa yields about 3 cups cooked quinoa. A plain cup has about 220 calories, 4 grams of fat, 5 […]

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Carolina Cobb Salad

Maris Callahan — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 17:18:15 +0000

In the blogosphere there is a lot of discussion over how to work with public relations professionals who want to use blogs as a platform to promote their clients to communities online. As a lot of my readers know, I work in public relations and a great deal of my work day is spent strategizing about how to best leverage blogs for my clients. I know. I said, “leverage blogs for my clients.” It sounds icky, right? But it’s not. I have worked for large companies that provide me with a paycheck every two weeks to promote its clients. That is my job. That is what PR professionals do. We promote our clients. I have been lucky that I’ve always enjoyed the clients that I’ve worked with and have never had a problem sharing their brands with my friends, family or online community. I like to keep a level of separation between my blog and my work but you know what? Sometimes that line blurs and I can’t stop it. I also have an advantage, in my line of work. My blog is an advantage and asset to my career. I never intended for it to be that way, but […]

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