Superfood Soup

Hi friends! It’s been a while. We’ve been bad about posting. We’re working to be better!

To make up for our recent sporadic posting, we’re giving you one of our all-time favorite recipes today. In honor of fall officially starting and cold weather setting in, at least here in Vermont, we bring to you a wholesome and healthy soup that will keep you satisfied and warm all fall (and winter and spring, too). This soup is chock-full of some seriously good (and good-for-you) ingredients like kale, black beans, quinoa, and sweet potato to help fight off changing-of-the-seasons sickness and to keep your tummy happy.

10-Minute Black Bean and Avocado Salad

So, admittedly, we post a lot of salads around here. Chalk that up to it being summer, and us having zero desire to be using the stove and/or oven in this heat (especially in the last couple of weeks–this heat wave has been brutal!). Honestly, most of our dinners have been very simple lately, and most of them aren’t blog-worthy. We’ve been eating a lot of big lettuce-based salads (with chopped veggies like cucumber and red pepper and chickpeas for a fiber kick) and pairing them with a side of greek yogurt with a chopped peach or plum (stone fruit being in season is the BEST part of summer, hands-down). Boring, maybe, but it’s easy to put together and best of all, requires no cooking.

For the nights when we’re feeling a little bit fancier but still can’t bear the thought of 30 minutes+ in a hot kitchen, though, a bean-based salad is a reliable fallback plan. We’ve introduced you to a few that are relatively easy, but this one–in terms of simplicity–is the best. It takes literally ten minutes to put together but is healthy, satisfying, and (this is key during the summer) not hot. Think of it as a minimalist version of the Southwestern quinoa salad from a few weeks back–it’s just as good, but takes less than half the time to make.

The Return of the Black Bean Burger

We hope you all had an awesome Fourth of July weekend! Ours was spent grilling and chilling in Alex’s family’s backyard in Buffalo, New York, and was filled with lots of delicious food.

Today’s recipe is a good one for returning to a healthy diet after a long weekend filled with decadent treats and too much booze–we always feel ready to get back to normal and treat our bodies right after a holiday! A few months back we introduced you to the sweet potato black bean burger which, while delicious, is too time-intensive for a quick weekday meal. These are a variation on those burgers (and also come from Ashley at Edible Perspective, one of our favorite food blogs), but are simpler and much faster to make. They taste just as good, though! Like the others, these can be easily frozen and thawed out when you’re looking for something for dinner that requires no effort. Or make up a batch for your next cookout–we guarantee that even your non-vegetarian friends will love these.