Karley's Curves

Yummy, Fantastic Salad MMMM

I am rounding/assuming what the calories would be… and have no clue what fat would be (but low I’m sure)

Calories (approximately): 100

Ingredients: 

2.5 leaves of red leaf lettuce

8red grapes

6 tomatoes with goat cheese (see previous post)

1 teaspoon of quinoa (see previous post)

2 tablespoons of strawberry vinaigrette dressing

Directions:

1. Mix together!

2. Enjoy!

*I should have used a little less dressing

Quiona and Black Beans

Quiona and Black Beans:

(and quiona is a super food!)

Calories: 76

Total Fat: 1.5g

Ingredients:

1 teaspoon vegetable oil

1 onion, chopped

3 cloves garlic, peeled and chopped

3/4 cup uncooked quiona

1 1/2 cups vegetable broth

1 teaspoon ground cumin

1/3 teaspoon cayenne pepper

salt and pepper to taste

1 cup frozen corn kernels

2 (15 ounce) cans of black beans, rinsed and drained

1/2 cup chopped fresh cilantro

Directions:

1. Heat the oil in a medium saucepan over medium heat. Stir in the onion and garlic, and saute until lightly browned.

2. Mix quinoa into the saucepan and cover with vegetable broth. Season with cumin, cayenne pepper, salt, and pepper.  Bring the mixture to a boil. Cover, reduce heat, and simmer for 20 minutes.

3. Stir frozen corn into the saucepan, and continue to simmer about 5 minutes until heated through. Mix in the black beans and cilantro.

Dinner Tonight…

…was absolutely fucking amazing and delicious and I’m SO proud of myself!

I looked up recipes on www.allrecipes.com and found some tasty looking stuff… so here is what I made tonight. 

(The ingredients and directions are going to be in separate posts.) 

(me chopping onions) [photo credit: bobbyd215.tumblr.com]

Dinner plate. 

look at the next posts to get the recipes :)

Come on… how yummy does that look?!