Salad for real people

I don’t like salad. That being said I actually enjoy salad a lot, just not lettuce covered in dressing. I love baby greens, nuts, beans and fruit in my salad. I love homemade dressing. I love a salad that is actually a meal, not a diet on a plate ruined by fatty dressing. This salad, or variations of it we eat for lunch or dinner depending on the season.

The recipe below is really just some guidelines for making something tasty and good for you pretty fast. For the one in the picture I just used a bunch of leftovers from the fridge and made a tahini dressing to give it some life. The recipe for tahini dressing is at the end of the post. 

Yummy Fantastic Salad

Ingredients

• Leftover grains (Rice, Quinoa, Millet, anything you have)

I always cook extra grains when I cook them to have around for other things later in the week so I usually have something leftover I need to use. Today I had rice and black beans that I had cooked together in my pressure cooker.

• Greens (Today was Spinach, I also use lettuce, baby greens, cabbage, whatever you have)
• Leftover cooked veggies (roasted veggies for me today)
• Leftover beans (I have been cooking my beans instead of using cans so I often have them ready, you could also open a can)
• Fresh veggies (today I had tomatoes, whatever you have and like put it on there)

Dressing (tahini dressing today, but anything from a little oil and vinegar to goddess dressing depending on your mood and the other stuff in your salad)

Mix it all together and enjoy your super healthy, not diet, filling, satisfying salad for real people.

Tahini dressing recipe 

Ingredients

• 2 TBL tahini
• Juice from half a lemon1/4 cup water
• 1 clove garlic, finely minced
• 2 TBL minced fresh herbs
• Salt to taste