Snowed In and Roasted Sweet Potato, Farro, Kale Salad with Warm Cinnamon-Honey Dressing

If you are making a trip to the grocery store, you should pick up some ingredients to make this rockin' Roasted Sweet Potato Farro Kale Salad with Warm Cinnamon Honey Dressing. This recipe is great for the following situations:

Showing off at a dinner party
Bringing the best salad to a potluck
Providing the only healthy item at a potluck (Are potlucks generally unhealthy or is that just a Southern thing?)
Tricking people into eating something healthy thats actually VERY delicious
Meatless Monday!!!
A warm meal for a snowy day

Colorful Kale Salad with Pomegranate Seeds and Roasted Nuts + Make your own dressing!

Even though Christmas and New Years have come and gone, the Hallmark channel has ceased the showings of their complex (just kidding....) Christmas movies, and the Christmas trees have piled up at local parks waiting for pick up, I tried to keep Christmastide surfing past New Years day. This past week in Nashville, we had the most delightful winter weather! At times, I felt like I was back in Minnesota, where, for me, the heart of Christmas truly lives.

We did miss the sun though, so I had to come up with something bright, green, and crunchy for us to eat! This is the kind of salad that you will want to use your hands for the last few bits so you don't leave anything behind. DON'T ACT LIKE YOU'VE NEVER DONE THAT BEFORE!!!

Thanksgiving Leftover Sliders

Obviously, breakfast on Friday was pumpin pie, and then for lunch we had leftovers. Growing up, I loved leftovers on the Friday after Thanksgiving. Everyone loves the first round of leftovers.

Its when day 4 of leftovers comes around that its not as exciting. The turkey is dry. The rolls are rather stale. Someone ate all the marshmallows off of the sweet potato casserole. And I wouldn't touch the green bean casserole with a ten foot pole, no matter how fresh they were.

Sweet Potato Black Bean Chili - Fourth Item in The Grateful Plate Series

Sometimes after a long day, the best kind of dinner is the one where you just throw a bunch of stuff into a pot. You use up some of those vegetables that you forgot you had, pop open some beans, throw in some canned tomatoes, and not only do you have a delicious dinner, but you have some marvelous, healthy, delicious, leftovers for the week. (LEFTOVERS ARE THE BEST)

Grilled Panzanella

Soon enough, I will have to say goodbye to most of my plants until next spring. Waaaaaaahhhh. The mailman, UPS, Fedex, our dogs, and probably most of our neighbors are all secretly cheering for the disappearance of the tiny jungle I’ve amassed in front of our house and on the steps leading to our front door. We live in a row of townhouses, so I pretty much use every square inch we have and even still, we run over at least one plant a week. I just ran over the oregano I brought back to life and I’m pretty ticked off at myself.

Accidentally Amazing - Quick Veggie Quesadillas

Sometimes life gets hairy and you forget to do certain things that are important to sustain life. Like eat. Maybe you've probably been having hunger pains and grumbles for a while now, maybe they even started around 3:00 pm, but waves of anxiety or worry might have extinguished them. These quesadillas were born out of that exact scenario and were a total accident. An amazing accident that happened after only 30 minutes of effort!! They’re healthy, fresh, full of protein, fulfilling, and bursting with flavor. They will use up that pepper in your veggie drawer and the last few cherry tomatoes.

Quinoa Black Bean Veggie Burger

Burger Up’s Marathon Burger inspired this recipe, it was the first veggie burger I ever fell in love with. Not to brag, but my husband says he likes these better, so……. I eat one of these guys the day before most of my races if I can (and by most of my races I mean the one I typically run in April).

If you’re looking for something healthy, easy, and quite versatile, this would be a great recipe for you! Make these delightful little burgers and post a picture of them on Instagram! Tag #itsallofit so I can see your creations!! Follow my account at @corrielanderson so you can see another way to enjoy these burgers here.