Today’s lunch was fANNEtastic!
After working through the morning and teaching TRX, I swung by the grocery store to pick up lots of food because tomorrow I will be prepping a few dishes for our Friendsgiving party on Saturday.
I wrote down all of the ingredients I needed for several of the recipes, and my mouth started watering as soon as I visited Anne’s blog, fANNEtastic Food, and copied down everything I needed for her quinoa salad with pecans and cranberries. After looking at her beautiful pictures, I knew I wanted to get a jump start on cooking and decided to prep the salad this afternoon so I could have some for lunch.
I doubled the recipe since we’ll be serving a large group and once it was done, I scooped several large spoonfuls into a bowl for myself.
It was so, so good! The perfect afternoon meal. If you’re looking for a healthy but 100 percent delicious side dish to bring to a party, I highly recommend it!
Also, for those of you planning to make some fabulous dishes for a Friendsgiving party of your own or Thanksgiving next Thursday, here are links to a few recipes that you guys recommended to me in the comments section of Tuesday afternoon’s blog post:
- Delicious, Creamy Mashed Potatoes
- Shaved Brussels Sprouts Salad
- Paleo Sweet Potato Gratin
- Cranberry-Orange Sauce
- Double Layer Pumpkin Cheesecake
- Cauliflower Casserole
- Stuffed Mushrooms
- Green Bean Bake
- Corn Casserole
- Caramelized Brussels Sprouts
- Pumpkin Whoopie Pies
And you can also check the comments section to see some mouth-watering recipes that a few of you were kind enough to type out for everyone to read. YUM!
Thank you for sharing your favorites with me! I always appreciate it!
Now I’m heading back to the gym to finish up my work day. Enjoy your evening!
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corn casserole is the best and itz always a hit! i’m making it on saturday as we are having some friends over for a mexican do it yourself meal!
Thanks so much for including my whoopie pie recipe on the list! I hope others enjoy them as much as I do 🙂
My pleasure! They sound great!
That really does look fantastic! I’m planning on making a quinoa stuffing this year instead of traditional stuffing with bread (since I’m also making corn bread and mashed potatoes!). I’ll be adding cranberries and pecans like in this recipe! Hope you all have a fabulous Friendsgiving! I need to try getting one of those together for my friends and me too. 😉
Yay – so glad you loved the recipe! 🙂
Yum! It looks like a perfect healthy side with a punch of protein. Vegetarians (like myself) can eat it!
Thanks for sharing the Whoopie Pie recipe! I am on dessert duty for Thanksgiving, so I have been looking for yummy recipes.
I love making quinoa and incorporating other fruit/veg into the mix. I actually made my quinoa mixture last night (cooked in chicken broth) and added chicken, tomatoes, green peppers and pizza mozza….so stringy and delicious 🙂
Yum, that looks great! I absolutely love anything with cranberries this time of year, both fresh and dried.
Looks so good. I love changing things up for thanksgiving and quiona is such a nice way to add protein to a side dish since most sides don’t have much protein. This is similar to a quinoa dish I make with walnuts, craisins and pomegrante seeds.
Your list of foods looks great! I think your party is going to be a huge success. 🙂
Ooooh that does look/sound like a delicious side dish!
I always have such a hard time buying dried fruit that DOES NOT have any sugar added. Because of that I tend to steer clear of dried fruit : ( This baby looks delicious though!
Thank you for sharing! I am going to have to try some of these for our thanksgiving next week. Going to be low key but still want to make a healthy meal 🙂
I know what a cheese lover you are (I can’t get enough of it myself) so I always add some finely grated fresh Parmesan to my mash potatoes. You don’t need too much, but I find it really adds some much loved cheesey flavour 🙂
I made Anne’s Sweet Potato Black Bean Quinoa Salad and it was DELICIOUS!! Her recipes = amazing!
Aw – thank you! 🙂 I’m so glad you are loving my recipes!
That recipe has been on my to make list for awhile now! It looks sooo good!
this looks so yummy! I will have to try it 🙂
That quinoa recipe looks delicious! Your friendsgivers will love it 🙂
Yum Anne’s salad sounds delicious, if only I wasn’t allergic to Quinoa. Maybe I could try subbing in barley or something instead.
I will have to check out the comments section for recipe ideas.
I hope friendsgiving is fun, sure it will be!
I bet it would be great with brown or wild rice. Sounds yummy!
Ooooh, that quinoa salad looks gooooooood!
I’m not a huge fan of Quinoa, but this looks good!! I think I would actually like it :D.
oh my gosh that looks so good!!
I am making something similar for my work potluck on Monday:
http://www.twopeasandtheirpod.com/quinoa-salad-with-butternut-squash-dried-cranberries-pepitas/
Quinoa, butternut squash, cranberries, pepitas, all things FALL! 🙂
That recipe looks so, so good. I was just telling Scott that I wanted some kind of quinoa side for Thanksgiving too. I might have to give it a go! Hope you have a HappyFriendsgiving!
I discovered her website earlier this week as a result of your instagram and tried this recipe out myself! AWESOME!
I had an amazing cranberry quinoa salad from Sprouts (our local market) recently that totally reignited my love for the little grain 🙂
I have made Anne’s quinoa salad at least a half dozen times now, and it’s always a total crowd pleaser! Such an easy, no fail recipe.