Stacey Homemaker

Easy Vegan Recipes

15-Minute Arugula Quinoa Salad Recipe

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This quinoa salad recipe has it all! Crisp carrots, peppery baby arugula, tender artichoke hearts, crunchy toasted walnuts, and tart dried cherries tossed in a tangy oil-free dressing. It’s easy to make and it pleases allll the tastebuds! Vegan, gluten-free, soy-free.

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Last year, on this day, at this exact moment, I was onboard the Disney Fantasy ship with my husband, Travis, eating lunch at Cabana’s and waiting for to set sail on our eastern Caribbean honeymoon cruise! I sure wish I was doing the same thing right now! I am very excited though because we’re planning another Disney cruise later this year and I can’t wait to share it all with you! (If you’re thinking about going on a Disney cruise make sure you read this post of 159 Disney cruise tips you need to know before your cruise!)

Luckily, I have all the ingredients ready to make this delicious everything-but-the-kitchen-sink quinoa salad recipe in the fridge so I can make a quick lunch and get back to watching our honeymoon cruise youtube videos and planning our next Disney cruise!

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Avocado Arugula Cherry Tomato Salad with Balsamic Vinaigrette

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This tomato salad is loaded with juicy cherry tomatoes, spicy arugula, and creamy avocado tossed with a tangy balsamic vinaigrette. It’s the most flavorful healthy side dish! Vegan, dairy-free, gluten-free, soy-free, nut-free.

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I found the most beautiful local organic rainbow cherry tomatoes at the market last week!

I used the larger red cherry tomatoes to make hearts with for our Valentine’s day avocado toast! It turned out so adorable that I made the love-inspired breakfast again on our anniversary too!

After our heart-shaped tomato breakfast, I was left with two pints of plump cherry tomatoes. Travis doesn’t really care for them, he says he doesn’t like how they burst in your mouth when you bite them.

I can’t be too hard on him though because he really isn’t a picky eater. He always tries all of the crazy concoctions that I come up with, even if he doesn’t love the ingredients. In case you were wondering, his all-time favorite meal is bomb ass buffalo cauliflower tacos— can you tell that he named the recipe?! Ha! 

So, I really made this avocado tomato salad for me, I love cherry tomatoes…and avocado…and arugula! Ok, I love everything in this tomato salad!

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Mandarin Orange Quinoa Spinach Salad with Mango Kiwi Dressing

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Summery quinoa spinach salad with sweet mandarin oranges, blueberries, red onions, toasted pecans, and tangy mango kiwi dressing will be your go-to healthy lunch. Vegan, dairy-free, gluten-free. 

Happy first day of August!

AKA my birthday month and the last month of summer! Woohoo!

The summer has flown by and I’m 100% okay with that. I made a goal for myself to get outside more and enjoy the summer so we’ve been biking every weekend, we went on a Disney cruise, we’ve gone to the beach a few times, and we even took a day trip to Rainbow Springs to go swimming.

It’s been deathly hot here, every day it reaches 95-100 degrees! Ugh, it’s definitely not ideal weather to be cranking the oven on for. So, I’ve been trying to cook recipes that don’t require the oven or need to be heated up. We intentionally don’t have a microwave so our only options are to turn on the stove or the toaster oven.

For this quinoa spinach salad recipe, I cooked the quinoa the night before so I wouldn’t heat the kitchen up during the day. You can eat this salad warm or cold, it’s really delicious both ways.

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