Rainy day cooking

My go-to activity for a rainy Sunday involves cooking.  It's preferable when I have somebody else coming to help me eat the food but having no company doesn't set me back as I'm good friends with my freezer and having left-overs to last me through the week. 
Today was my first attempt at Homemade Hummus which turned out well and it's so easy with my Ninja blender that there really is no need to purchase it premade. I had some tahini I'd bought for another recipe and wanted to put it to good use. 

Hummus ingredients: garbanzo beans, lemon juice, garlic, tahini, cumin, salt. 

voilà - hummus!  

I also just had to try a new dessert recipe for a paleo Lemon Coconut Loaf which I saw in my most recent Gluten Intolerant Group magazine.  It's a simple recipe, just lightly sweetened, made from coconut and almond flour with fresh lemon juice and zest.  I made half of it into mini-muffins sized bites so I won't over-eat this cake :-)

I guess I shouldn't mention that I also made meatloaf and roasted baby potatoes for dinner tonight also.
 Thanks for looking through my kitchen window.

Broccoli Spinach Quinoa Soup

It's been COLD which makes people think S-O-U-P!  I've always said that I'm not much of a soup person but I think that's inaccurate.  In actuality I think I'm just a picky soup eater.  I don't much like brothy soups, I prefer chunkier thick soups with a stew-like texture.  This is why this soup turned out perfectly for me . And it was healthy to boot!


Here's the recipe I followed (via pinterest of course):
http://www.cookingquinoa.net/broccoli-spinach-quinoa-soup

Adjustments I made:
more spice!
I used multi-colored quinoa to make it a bit more colorful.
I only pureed half of the soup to leave it a bit more chunky.
A tad of shredded goat parmesan.  

Here's how it turned out for me: