Warm Broccoli chickpeas and pepper quinoa salad with lemon ginger dressing

Cooking with quinoa is so easy, don’t you think? If you have not yet tried any quinoa recipes, it is not too late to start! You can use it in almost any recipe that calls for rice – think of burritos, mexican bowls, salads, veggie wraps, Indian rice dishes, and even puddings πŸ™‚ No one will know when you sneak in all that nutrition into a traditional recipe by just swapping the rice for quinoa! Personally, my quinoa journey started the same way – I used quinoa instead of rice in all the Indian dishes I knew πŸ˜€ πŸ˜€ Another thing is that if you just have some cooked quinoa on hand, you can put together an amazing weeknight meal in minutes!

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Roasted Pumpkin Garbanzo Beans/Chickpeas Salad (Fall Recipe)

Somehow on cold winter days all I want to do is just sit indoors and munch on something the whole day! I really need to have a bunch of healthy snacks around to help to cut down on unnecessary junk snacking πŸ˜€ I think that not having a lot of junk food in my kitchen helps me stay on track. Anyway, lazy winter evenings also mean that I am a little reluctant to try recipes that involve a lot of prep work!! Salads are so easy and make such a wholesome meal – but it is something that I personally associate with summer months πŸ˜€ So I wanted to try something different – a salad that had a winter/fall appeal. And what could be better than a warm roasted pumpkin and garbanzo beans salad!! This makes a perfect fall recipe. Yaay!!

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