Warm Quinoa Salad with Roasted Sweet Potatoes and Sage

Maris Callahan — Wed, 05 Feb 2014 06:10:13 +0000

No matter how big your turkey or how tart your cranberry sauce, there are few aromas that say Thanksgiving quite like the aromas of sage and thyme emanating from the stovetop. This warm quinoa salad delivers just that, even though that aroma comes from stuffing (or dressing, depending on what part of the country you’re from).” Every family seems to have their own traditional stuffing recipes – cornbread and cranberries, sourdough with chestnuts and oysters, sausage and apples with once-crusty whole wheat bread. But if you keep a gluten-free diet, stuffing is probably not the same for you as it is for the rest of your family. If you want to eliminate any feelings of stuffing-envy that arrive, uninvited, at your dinner table this year, skip the stuffing altogether, however unimaginable that may be, and instead opt for a side dish that’s naturally gluten-free: quinoa. Quinoa, pronounced keen-WAH, is a close relative to the leafy greens family that bears resemblance to the grain family. With a light, fluffy texture, quinoa will offer the same forkful of comfort that stuffing would – with many of the same flavors and even more nutrients then you would get from the same amount of wheat […]

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Skillet Cornbread with Caramelized Onions

Maris Callahan — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 03:00:00 +0000

Ever since I was in college, when I would go home to visit my mom, at some point I would wind up rummaging through her pantry scavenging for groceries. It wasn’t that I couldn’t easily go to the store to buy my own, it was just that whatever already lined her shelves seemed practical and necessary. I could rest assured that all of the brands were high-quality and none of the expiration dates would have lapsed (though you would have never suspected my mother’s quality-control vigilance based on the 18-month old salad dressing that lived in our refrigerator once. In all fairness, it was a fluke incident. You could probably eat off her kitchen floors). Even though I live on my own now and can afford my own groceries most of the time, it seems that just about every visit home ends with a good long stare in the cabinet that seldom leads me walking out the door empty handed. Last time I was home, one of my prizes wound up being a half-empty container of coarse cornmeal, that she claimed she had bought for one recipe but likely would never use again. Since I pride myself and my creativity […]

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Warm Quinoa Salad with Roasted Sweet Potatoes and Sage

Skillet Cornbread with Caramelized Onions