Black bean, pea, and sweetcorn potato salad, with honey barbeque glazed tofu 'steaks', and slabs of mozzarella by Michael Zocca

The salad is just peeled, chopped and boiled potatoes, peas, and corn. When they cooled, I added them to some sour cream with evoo, salt/pepper, garlic powder/hing.

Tofu steaks are extra firm tofu, cooked in the pan with some evoo until golden brown. Add the barbeque sauce as you turn them off, and flip repeatedly, so as to coat both sides.

Mozzarella is added after everything is plated. Enjoy!

Sunflower Seed Dressing by Rohini

Sunflower Seed Dressing

1/2 c sunflower seeds (easier if you soak them a little first, but not absolutely necessary; also, I think I ended up adding a bit more because I made it right before serving so it didn't have a chance to thicken)
1 c water
juice of 1 lemon
2 T apple cider vinegar
salt to taste
1 T honey
1 T dried parsley
1 t dried oregano
1 t dried dill

Blend in a blender. That's it. I like it with extra sour for tanginess, you may reduce or skip the vinegar if you like.

Kale Salad by Rukmini

Hare Krshna !

Ok Im a salad queen in the warmer months, heres one of my favorites I make, a ❤ opener because of the green leafys!

Rukminis Kale Salad:

1. Organic kale,finely chopped

2. In a separate frying pan heat up Olive oil or Coconut oil for a few seconds(dont burn oil) , add in Raw Organic sunflower seeds, when they start popping add low sodium soy sauce & immediately turn off heat.

3. Add the above over the Kale, just add fresh lime & fresh black pepper
Tah Dahhhhhhh!

4. Offer to Krshna..wait..then...

5. ENJOY!

❤Rukmini

Harvest Salad by Bhumi

Lunch today. Harvest salad....adapted from a recipe by Ina Garten. It is wilted arugula with grilled butternut squash and brussel sprouts, roasted pecans, dried cranberries and topped with a mustard/maple vinaigrette

• • In your broiler or oven bake till golden diced butternut squash, and brussel sprouts topped with EVOO, salt and pepper.... In the last few minutes of baking you can add some raw pecans.
    
    When they are golden and crispy on the outside, taken the...m out and add immediately your dried cranberries, and throw mixture on a bed of arugula and it should wilt. I usually wait a few minutes, because I prefer the arugula only slightly wilted.
    Recipe for mustard/maple vinaigrette:
    In a food processor or blender or you can just wisk it to emulsify it, add:
    Mustard -- any kind of commercial type
    maple syrup
    Balsamic Vinegar
    olive oil
    apricot jam -- optional
    salt, pepper and hing

Creamy Italian Dressing by Bhumi

Here is the recipe for Creamy Italian Dressing:
Of course there are no measurements, because you are all experienced cooks.

In a blender put:
EVOO
Lemon Juice
little tomato sauce or a fresh tomato
a little sour cream
salt
pepper
hing
Italian herbs

you can also put in fresh herbs such as dill or parsley

Brown Rice Salad by Emma... *Secret Family Recipe...shhh!*

Brown Rice Salad
This is a "secret" family recipe and we always have it at family gatherings.
1 C brown rice
1 3/4 C water
1/4 C soya sauce (light)
1 onion flinely chopped

Cook rice inwater, when cooked add soya sauce and onions and leave for a few hours of preferably overnight.

Next day add: -

1 diced red capsicum
1/c C roasted peanuits
1/2 ...C roasted pumpkin seeds
1/w C roasted sunflower seeds
handful of sultana's

Dressing ~
1/2 C olive oil
2 T lemon juice
1 t lemon rind
1 clove crushed farlic
1 t ginger
1 t honey
pinch of salt

You can obviously leave out the onion and garlic if you wish.

Wheat, Avocado & Feta Salad by Dharma

Google isn't me!;)I know how to read english and french but want to give the way i cooked simple and easy it's like when i play guitar everything has to be simple like that everybody understands!:)So here goes my simple recipe.Hope i did a ...good job!:)So for this recipe ( Cook 150g of Wheat"Ebly"cut half of an onion in tiny pieces
Chop up some ...parsley then in a big bowl do a sauce with 2 yogurts&150g of Feta cheese&Squeeze 1 Lemon&Salt&Pepper put the Parsley and the onion and then mix it all up with a fork.Then add the wheat once cooked to the sauce.Then cut 2Avocados&half of a Cucumber in small cubes.Then in a glass put a layer of the sauce,then a layer with the Cucumbers,then a layer of Avocados and then again a layer of the sauce and a layer of the Cucumbers,and layer of the Avocados.Then sprinkle pieces of Feta cheese on top of all this and add some parsley on top!:)
The little bonus is if you don't have any Cucumber or Avocados you can always use tomatoes!:)
This's very easy to cook but very hard to explain how to do iit!lol!:)