Quintess' Radiant Health/Inner Wealth
So, since one of our fellow VWers has created her own awesome cookbook, I think we should dedicate a cookbook thread to it. Whoever has ordered this book or tested recipes prior to the book's publication should contribute and maybe it will persuade others to order it and make quintess lots of $$$ ;D
So far, I've made:
Creamy Potato Leek Soup with Caramelized Scallions: delicious! Very smooth, great flavor, hearty but not heavy. Wonderful with some homemade tofu sour cream drizzled in as a garnish!
Whole Multigrain Bread: the best whole wheat bread I've ever made. It rises great, has a nice texture, very healthy, and just plain tasty! I would get the book just for this recipe!
Grandma's Apple Crisp: mmmm....I love apple crisp! I added some more margarine and about a 1/2 cup of rolled oats to the "crumb" mixture. Was very yummy!
Note from editor: The compilation of reviews for RHIW can be found on page 2 of this thread: Official review for Radiant Health Inner Wealth
Black Eyed Peas and Kale
I loved this!! So did the whole family. It was my first time making BEPS and I was pleasantly surprised. My son had his kale raw and plain beans (with salt) but he did have a bite of mine and liked it. Next time he can just eat what we are eating. Red Hot sauce is awesome on this.
thanks Tess!!!
Side note: Reading tbb's note above I wanted to try the Tomato, basil, and roasted pine nut penne but used up my basil on other things. So when a family member of a patient brought me some homegrown basil I checked it out again. It was fate, because the basil was exactly what I needed, I had grape tomoatoes in exactly the amount needed, I had partial jars of pine nuts and olives in exactly the amount needed. It was weird. Anyway...........
Tomato, basil, and roasted pine nut penne - I loved this. Rocked the taste buds on so many levels. I screwed up and only used 8 oz. of penne instead of 16 oz. so it made it all the more better for my taste buds.
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My mom made these recipes for me, so I will review the taste-test!
Moroccan quinoa - Tasty quinoa salad. I wondered if the water-quinoa ratio was off, though, because my quinoa slightly mushy. I am also not really a fan of plumped up dried cranberries, so I may add them at the end next time. Really liked the flavours, though.
Creamy hummus - Made the lower fat hummus, with less than 2 tbsp of olive oil and used water for the remaining of the liquid portion. Delicious, creamy hummus. Not too tangy which surprised me since this is from Tess! My father gobbled this up as fast as we could make it, who does not like this "health food stuff", so this is a huge compliment! :)
Super Antioxidant Smoothie
Delicious smoothie. I've made this with banana, mixed berries and pomegranate juice with great results. Usually add 1 tbsp ground flax seeds as well as some greens.
Berry Good Morning Shake
My standard breakfast smoothie. I usually add 1 tbsp ground flax seeds as well as some greens.
Rosemary white beans with artichokes and sun dried tomatoes
I liked the Mediterranean flavours. This was made with canned white kidney beans (2x19oz) with good results! Added in chopped rosemary to the salad since I didn't cook my own beans. I know this would be wonderful with flageolets. :)
Chicky Baby Seasoning - It took me a while to find all the ingredients, but it is so worth it. This seasoning is golden! I am hooked. It is my go-to veggie bouillon and I love to cook beans with it. :)
Saag paneer - I REALLY liked this. I am slowly introducing Indian food into my repertoire because I don't like curries, but I loved this. Creamy and flavourful. I loved the hint of dill (which is probably totally inauthentic) with all the spinach! It is actually quite a rich meal, serving 2-3. For the recipe, we used more tofu (half the package). My suggestion would be to double the recipe, use the whole pack of tofu, because it was so delicious and I was begging for more! The other (minor) changes we made were using yellow mustard seeds, 1/2 tsp Aleppo chili flakes, a bunch of fresh spinach (instead of frozen), and olive oil instead of the margarine.
Creamy adzuki beans - I had such high hopes for this dish with all the rave reviews, but I was not a fan. I wonder if it is because I added 2 tsp of salt (recipe says 2.5 tsp), which made it too salty. I wonder if I should try again without so much salt.
Low fat basil garlic linguine - I christened my spiralizer by making zucchini noodles with this raw sauce. Delicious!! I love how you just mixed everything together, no blender needed. Super easy, tasty and healthy! (it must be a blue recipe when you use wheat noodles, because with zucchini noodles, you're laughing at how healthy and simple this is!)
Black eyed peas with kale - After making AFR's Mango BBQ beans with black eyed peas, I was hankering for more black eyed peas! This is a great dish! Lemony, garlicky beans with the kale. I didn't use any hot sauce, but maybe next time will add chili flakes. Yum!
Indian kuchumber salad - I am not entirely sure what this is supposed to taste like, but I found this a bit bland and oily as written. I added more lime juice and salt to brighten the salad. Otherwise, simple to prepare, but will not be making a repeat performance here.
Oven fries - I made these with sweet potatoes (3 cups) and thought they were great. Nicely flavoured and I loved the bits of fresh garlic goodness. I paired them with a miso gravy dressing and they were awesome!
Green chili and tomatillo tamales - I used this recipe more as a guide for a different filling, but I loved it! You don't need masa filling with tons of margarine! I used the filling for sweet potato and black bean tamales from Viva Vega, added 1/4 cup Earth Balance (melted it in the pan) with the black bean mixture. Then I added all of the black bean filling to the masa filling. I kept the sweet potato part separate. 500g of sweet potato did not even come close to filling all my tamales, so that needs to be doubled, if not tripled. I ended up making around 50 tamales, but they were obviously more on the small side. But dude, these were great and nearly guilt-free! :)
is there a thread that has all these categorized? I just looked through all the pages looking for a specific recipe review and didn't find it. AC? ;)
is there a thread that has all these categorized? I just looked through all the pages looking for a specific recipe review and didn't find it. AC? ;)
2nd page, also linked to in the first page/post. :)
thanks! apparently I checked all but that page. LOL!
Also, no one has reviewed the recipe I am making. I will be the first!!!
cornmeal tofu with asian veggies and s/s sauce
Cornmeal tofu and Asian vegetables with sweet and sour sauce
Made the tofu exactly as said....I had divided the coating in half in case I needed to do 2 batches, and half was enough for the whole tub of tofu...so if you are like me and like to save on ingredients, just make half of the cornmeal coating.
My kids loved this tofu.....Lyle even asked for seconds (a RARITY!!!).
We made the sauce but did not have that asafideta stuff so we skipped it and it still came out great. We used different veggies to try and use up stuff from our CSA. Peppers, onions, carrots, and I think that is it. None of us likes mushrooms anyway. I might try pureeing the sauce for the leftovers just to try it smooth instead of chunky (in the Vitamix).
Overall, a great meal that I would make again...kids ate the tofu and rice plain, but at least I did not have to cook two separate meals. Thanks Q!!!!
I loved the Quick and Easy Asian Brown Sauce! I had to thicken mine with flour (had no arrowroot and corn starch would not work). It was delicious!!!
Zucchini chips to dry for - These were really good. Not as crispy like potato chips because you don't use much oil bu the flavours are great! A great way to christen my new dehydrator. :)
Everything Nice Popcorn - Addictive with its sweet/savoury combo topping for the popcorn. It was a bit thick but worked well.. and super tasty!
Low fat lo mein - Was expecting more based on the reviews. Would not add all the tamari, 3 tbsp was too much and the recipe called for more. Subbed kelp noodles.
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