Sometimes you don’t need recipes, just ideas!
This collection revels in warming meals for winter comfort. All the meals were regular weeknight meals for us in mid January, 2025. With only a smidgen of advance planning, you can put these on your table. It does take some time to bake the potato for the double-stuffed shrimp potato, and the koftas require prep in the chopping department (for herbs, nuts, onions, garlic). However, a bonus is that the koftas can bridge two+ meals. And you can reserve lamb mince to make into mini-meatballs for the lentil/garbanzo curry later. (BTW, the curry freezes great. The featured curry in this blog was actually made in 2023, but it was still amazing 2 years later.)
Most of these meals are Plant Paradox friendly (watch those toms in the salad) and Wise Traditions friendly. You can definitely adapt some of these recipes to be vegetarian (e.g., curry, salad with Greek goddess, roast pumpkin salad, and of course, a double stuffed potato can be made meatless–but I didn’t need to tell you that).
More than a garnish: don’t neglect those tasty broccoli sprouts, as they are one of the best sources of sulforaphane, a powerful antioxidant.
Stay briny!
–Stacey
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