Southwestern Salad

January 31, 2012 by 2 Comments

This salad may be low calories but it is no slouch when it comes to filling you up!  Using salsa verde instead of an oil laden dressing will keep it light and all the natural flavors of the food can shine through!  Adding beans packs it with protein and the avocado gives us  some nice healthy fat (why not get your fats straight from the whole food, right?!). Plus all the amazing colors are oh so pretty!!!

 

Southwestern Salad

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by Sarah Collins Chapman

Keywords: salad vegan vegetarian salsa black beans Mexican Southwest

 

 

Ingredients (2 big salads)

  • 1 head Romaine lettuce, chopped and rinsed
  • 1 cup black beans
  • 1/2 cup corn kernels (fresh, canned or defrosted frozen corn will all work fine)
  • 1 cup grape or cherry tomatoes, halved
  • 1/2 avocado, diced
  • 1/4 cup red onion, finely chopped
  • 1/2 cup salsa verde (or more to taste)
  • squirt of lime juice
  • tortilla strips(or crushed tortilla chips) and cilantro for garnish

Instructions

Layer lettuce, beans, corn, tomatoes avocado, and onion in a very large bowl or into two large individual salad bowls.

Top salads with salsa verde, a squirt of lime juice, some tortilla strips and a little cilantro.

Serve immediately

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This is one that we’ll definitely be making again and again!!

Enjoy!

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Birthday celebrations

June 19, 2009 by 2 Comments

What a fun day I had yesterday!  Justin and I hung out all day, which is one of my favorite things to do.  We don’t actually get to hang out very often, he works late hours a lot.

Anyway, we started out the day at the Botanical Gardens.  I wanted to play with my new camera and take some pretty pictures.  I’ve been to there a bagillion times and taken lots of pictures there (I even had my bridal pictures taken there!).  We just walked around and enjoyed the beauty (and the heat, it was 99 degrees!!)  Here’s some pictures.

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Look at this silly squirrel!  Have you ever seen a squirrel do this??

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After the gardens, we went to Panera and got cookies.  We also wanted to cool down a little before the next destination.

I got a toffee nut cookie.  It was so so so good!

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Then we went to the Kimball Art Museum (everything we did today was free!  Can you tell we’re on a tight budget??)  Sorry, no pics allowed in the museum.  They are in between exibits right now, so we just looked at their permanant collection.  They have some really interesting stuff.

Then it was on to dinner!  We went to Uncle Julio’s.  It was SO good!!  The salsa was the best that I’ve EVER had!  They char their tomatoes or their peppers before they put them in so you get that awesome smokey flavor and the fun little black specks.

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I got chicken enchiladeas with salsa verde.  Salsa verde is one of my faorite things!  I love the tang of the tomatillos.  And it just tastes so fresh and healthy.  I ate ALL of these enchiladas, a little of the rice, and a few of the beans that came on the side.  Oh it was so good!

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Oh and there was also a frozen sangria that escaped the eye of the camera.  I wasn’t really feeling a margarita when we got there, I guess because we spent the majority of our day outside.  After I had a big glass of water I decided that sangria sounded pretty good.  It was very tasty!

Anyway, that was my birthday celebration!

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