Comments on: Crunchy Bean, Quinoa & Carrot Salad

By: Green Kitchen Stories

Green Kitchen Stories — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 19:58:10 +0000

roasted cranberries sounds so good, can we come over;-)

By: Natasha

Natasha — Sun, 06 Jan 2013 23:19:05 +0000

I tried this recipe tonight and it was terrific! I didn’t have the requisite berries so I roasted some fresh cranberries I had on hand along with the carrots. Everything turned out beautifully! Thank you for sharing this and best wishes to you both.

By: tunie

tunie — Tue, 01 Jan 2013 22:44:56 +0000

Oh this is so well said, thank you. Very nice and helpful to hear from a man who has thought about it carefully.

By: Julia

Julia — Sun, 16 Dec 2012 01:11:16 +0000

I’m terrible at commenting on posts but I’m going to try and get better. I just wanted to let you know that I made this recipe for my immediate family, and was requested to make it again a few days later for our extended family on Thanksgiving. I was then asked for the recipe by my Aunt so she could make it for her extended family on Christmas Eve and my cousin wanted it to pass onto a cooking savvy friend! I thought you’d like to know your recipe is spreading through my family and friends this holiday season; thanks so much for providing such a delicious, nourishing dish I feel good about cooking for others and passing on to others :) Oh and I replaced the berries with pomegranate seeds and they fit right into the recipe.

By: aninalu

aninalu — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 15:49:57 +0000

I’m a woman.. I don’t want a wedding. No seriously.
Maybe I want to get married once, but it won’t be for the ceremony, the dress, the cake, the party, the attention or all that other stuff. It’s just not for me. I find it all to be.. too much.
People are diffrent. If you want a dress and a party and a “honeymoon”, who says you can’t have that, if you don’t want to get married? Who says it will be less meaningful, if you don’t feel like signing a contract (symbolically and legally)?

By: Renee Ranjani

Renee Ranjani — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 16:12:42 +0000

Beautiful recipe. I am so inspired to use roasted carrots this season in a number of dishes! And the mustard dressing is on my mind too. I just did an eggplant dish with a hot-sweet mustard. yummmmm.

My boyfriend and I have had the same conversation about marriage. We very much feel we will be with each other forever, regardless of getting hitched. We both come from traditional families, still wed parents. Perhaps that’s why we’ve been considering the leap. In the US, it seems that people are waiting longer and longer to get married. I’m sure that has something to do with half of our generation having come from divorced/remarried parents. But I also think it has to do with modern committed relationships being absolutely more about the love relationship and perhaps less about social dos and donts.

Anyhoo. Love your blog, love hearing about your love and your little one! Your relationship is inspiring. I actually thought you were married before you wrote this post! It seems to be the way you live your life anyway. toodles.

Renee
http://www.theupbeet.com

By: Dani

Dani — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 11:21:56 +0000

Hey guys,
I saw your salad, fell instantely in love made it for dinner last night. We loved it, especially the honey-mustard dressing which was amazing! I´m having the leftovers for lunch now, can´t wait :)
Thanks for sharing!
Best,
Dani

By: Jennifer L

Jennifer L — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 18:40:16 +0000

One aspect of my marriage that I treasure is the simple act of taking the time to celebrate. When I take a few moments to browse the important events in my life and recollect the sights, sounds, smells from those days, I am grateful for the people that were with me during those times. Our wedding was small, filled with more love than I could have imagined, and most importantly, shared with our dearest friends and family. My Grandfather and Grandmother got up and danced the way they had danced at their own wedding (they whipped out some ballroom and swing at 86/90 years that made the rest of us look lazy). It will forever make me smile. We danced through the evening like crazy folks and it was magical. We had been together 8 years before getting married and are now approaching the 13th year this month.

Our cake was splendid and had all the places we had traveled written on it from our birth places at the top, our growing up places and meeting places in the middle, to our world adventures together on the bottom.

Paperwork aside, find the time/excuse to celebrate the love. Sometimes it’s the shiny moments that we like to recollect the most when we think about our lives. A wedding, or love celebration, is shiny.

One thing I’d consider if we did it again would be to get married on the day we met. We’re always forgetting our wedding anniversary, but we always find the time to celebrate the time-we-met anniversary (likely because it had been *the* anniversary for eight long years!

The births of our children hit upon those high notes in life too. I was 5-months-pregnant with D. when we got married and that evening, while winding down in a fancy-fancy bath tub, we saw her first-noticeable-to-us kicks ripple in the water. She clearly had some more dancing to do. :-)

By: Sarah

Sarah — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 16:56:11 +0000

My partner and I have been together almost 5 years, and we don’t see any need to get married at the moment. (Granted, it’s not legal in our state, but that’s not a huge concern for us personally.) However, we’re planning to have a big party to celebrate our anniversary this fall–I don’t think there’s any need to wait for a wedding to have a celebration of love that’s filled with dancing and good food!

By: Valeria

Valeria — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 14:29:20 +0000

My husband is American, I am Italian. My parents are still happily married, his mum got married 4 times. Our backgrounds are very different, and we both agreed that getting married wouldn’t add anything to our love, which is strong and passionate with or without the ring. We simply had to make that choice to be able to stay together in a same country, which for now is the UK, and live our love story without ever being apart because of bureaucracy. We are happy of our choice –in your daily life as a steady couple, it doesn’t really change anything.So, yes, if you believe in each other’s love, why not? the party factor will definitely be fun!