Recipes for Health :-))

November 22, 2008 at 1:05 pm | Posted in Lifescape | 1 Comment

This series offers recipes with an eye towards empowering you to cook healthy meals every day. Produce, seasonal and locally grown when possible, and a well-stocked pantry are the linchpins of a good diet, and accordingly, each week’s recipes will revolve around a particular type of produce or a pantry item. This is food that is vibrant and light, full of nutrients but by no means ascetic, fun to cook and a pleasure to eat.

clipped from www.nytimes.com Recipes for Health: Salads Spinach salad with seared shiitake mushrooms: This salad is enlivened by the intense flavor of shiitake mushrooms. clipped from www.nytimes.com Curried Waldorf salad: A lighter version of the Waldorf salad, which has the same sweet, savory and crunchy mixture of celery, apples, raisins and walnuts clipped from www.nytimes.com Summer salad with feta clipped from www.nytimes.com Warm potato salad with goat cheese: Yukon golds, fingerlings or red bliss potatoes all work in this warm, creamy salad clipped from www.nytimes.com Middle Eastern pita and vegetable salad (Fattoush): This salad is a great destination for flat breads that have become stale clipped from www.nytimes.com Wild rice salad with celery and walnuts: A lemony salad that works as a main dish salad or as a welcome addition to a Thanksgiving table clipped from www.nytimes.com Baby salad greens with sweet potato croutons and stilton: Sweet potatoes contrast beautifully here with the pungent Stilton in this salad clipped from www.nytimes.com Roasted pepper and tomato salad clipped from www.nytimes.com Salad With Tuna and Vegetable clipped from www.nytimes.com Quinoa salad with lime ginger dressing and shrimp with lime dressing, scallions, cilantro and a bit of hea