Well, my Christmas tree is up and Christmas Vacation is playing on the TV! It’s finally December and I am finally able to get in the Christmas Spirit!
I always get a lot of questions at lunch about what I am eating and where I got the recipe from! More often than not, my answer is simply, Skinny Taste Blog! I am obsessed! Gina Homolka is the creator of the blog and all the recipes. While I can’t take credit for any of her recipes, I will post my favorites and any changes that I have made to them!
One reason I love Gina’s blog is because she posts weekly meal plans with ideas for breakfast, lunch, and dinner! In addition to that she has a grocery list all ready to go! And the best part? It’s FREE!!! I typically choose 2-3 recipes from her blog for the week.
I have also been trying to be better at meal prep. Some weeks it goes better than others. I have been eating out less which is a plus! A couple of weeks ago Skinny Taste had posted a Kale Salad with Roasted Sweet Potatoes, Feta, and Pepitas. Normally I am not a sweet potato person. But I love every other ingredient in the salad so I thought it was worth a shot. I could have left out the sweet potato, but I normally don’t like to change up a recipe before I try it at least once.
I stopped by Trader Joe’s earlier and got a couple of bags of pre cut kale. You still have to go through at tear the stems off, but the pre cut bags at least save you one step!
After you have removed all of the stems drizzle a tablespoon of olive oil over the kale, more if needed. Massage the kale for about 3 minutes. You will feel the kale start to become more tender. This will help the flavor to be much less bitter. (Thanks, Hillary for that awesome tip! It made me fall in love with Kale! Now if I could just get Scott to eat it…)
The great thing about kale is that you can massage it ahead of time and use it all week! Just divide it up into smaller containers! I got mine at Costco!
I’ll add the feta, dried cherries, and pepitas the morning of and the dressing right before!
The dressing calls for fresh orange juice or lemon juice. I doubled the recipe so that I could eat it all week. So for the dressing I used juice from 2 oranges and 1 1/2 lemons.
To make this salad for lunch or dinner click here!
If you try this recipe I would love to hear about it! Make any changes? Likes or dislikes about the recipe? Let me know! Comment below
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