Red Quinoa Salad with red onions, feta and endamames

I was in the mood for something really light for dinner last night.

I looked up in the refrigerator and found what I have was feta cheese, endamames, red onions, romaine lettuces, and grape tomatoes.

So why not to throw it altogether with those red quinoa?! It surely taste so good! You can create your own dressing or use the dressing that you have in your refrigerator.

I decided to use the vegetable stock to cook my red quinoa for more flavor. You simple cook the red quinoa as what you normally cook for white or brown rice in the pan or the rice cooker. Not really hard :D!

I saw that I have a jalapeno so I throw it in that salad to boost up little spicy. You can omit the jalapenos if you don't want any boost up the spicy in your salad.

Ingredients:

Romaine Lettuce, washed and shredded

1 small red onion, finely chopped

Feta crumbled cheese

Handful of grape tomatoes, cut into quartered

1 jalapeno (OPTIONAL)- seeded and finely chopped

For the red quinoa: 1 cup of that along with 2 cups of vegetable broth. Cook it until it becomes swirly and curl. Best to have it bring up a boil then cover the pan with a lid then lower to simmer - cook about 15 minutes or so (you will able to see when it becomes swirly/curly then you know it's all ready).

Put those cooked quinoa and mixed it up along with salad ingredients.

Steam those endamames then sprinkle it as toppings.

For dressing: your own choice or homemade -either way.. For me I usually use freshly squeezed lemon juice along with the apple cider vinegar and olive oil to mix it together along with freshly ground black pepper and little bit of salt to bring up the flavor.

Enjoy this! :D

Citrus Acai Watermelon Smoothie

My girls wanted me to make smoothies for them. They are totally hooked with my creativity along with the foods especially with the smoothies.

My second daughter wanted something with watermelon. So I was thinking "yeah, watermelon would work with a group of citrus like lemon, lime and orange to bring up more tangy flavors. However I don't have lime in my kitchen but lemon and orange would work it out.

I had bought a fresh seedless watermelon and cut it into chunks and freeze it. In order to make the smoothie with fresh fruits, it's wise to freeze it because if you are using fresh fruits that hasn't freeze then it wouldn't make great smoothie -would become mushy drink *you don't want that*. So freeze the fresh fruits acts like a second duty as being as ice!

I decided to add Acai into that smoothie. It's an excellent antioxidant!!! In case if you wonder what was Acai?! Acai is a berry type that is grown on trees mostly in warmer climates. It has many benefits like aging, cancer, detoxifying your body, boost up your energy, improving your digestion and etc.

You can find the Acai puree in the freezer section along with those organic fruits at the local supermarket where they sells the organic foods.

Ingredients:

Handful (1 or 2) of freeze chunks of seedless watermelon

1 packet of Acai puree

2 to 4 big scoops of lemon sorbet

1 lemon- freshly squeezed (make sure no seeds go into)

Blend it altogether and it will shows lots of clutters.

Slowly add some of orange juice while blending those fruits altogether until it becomes smoothly.

Not very sweet but just a perfect combination of sweet and tangy flavors!

Enjoy the tangy drinks!

You can double it to make that smoothie :D