{"id":3012,"date":"2025-06-24T12:03:57","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T17:03:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/auntiestacey.com\/?p=3012"},"modified":"2025-06-27T20:57:00","modified_gmt":"2025-06-28T01:57:00","slug":"quinoa-chopped-salad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/auntiestacey.com\/?p=3012","title":{"rendered":"Quinoa Chopped Salad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3013\" src=\"http:\/\/auntiestacey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/PXL_20250624_155631640-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"584\" srcset=\"https:\/\/auntiestacey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/PXL_20250624_155631640-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/auntiestacey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/PXL_20250624_155631640-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/auntiestacey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/PXL_20250624_155631640-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/auntiestacey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/PXL_20250624_155631640-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/auntiestacey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/PXL_20250624_155631640-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/auntiestacey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/PXL_20250624_155631640-2048x2048.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When I want a salad for lunch, this is my go-to. Every time. I can&#8217;t help but love it because it&#8217;s fast to assemble. And since I try to keep cooked quinoa in the fridge weekly, so this is even snappier to make.<\/p>\n<p>I also use this salad to clean out my fridge. I make pickled veg all summer long, so an easy way to use the pickled item all up since it doesn&#8217;t last long (about three weeks) is to throw some of each type into my salads. I love colourful, tasty, vibrant pickled items like red onion and carrots. They just set the creamy salad dressings off so nicely. They also break up normal meals so they don&#8217;t get monogamous over time.<\/p>\n<p>Mix it up!<\/p>\n<p>Here is how I made enough for an baby entree sized serving. Add protein if desired.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Quinoa Chopped Salad:<\/strong><br \/>\n1\/2 C Cooked Quinoa<br \/>\n1\/2 C Shredded Lettuce<br \/>\n1 Persian Cucumber, quartered and sliced<br \/>\n1\/4 Roma Tomato, diced<br \/>\n2 Forkfuls of Pickled Red Onion Slices<br \/>\n2 Forkfuls of Pickled Carrot Strands<br \/>\nCreamy Dressing of choice, enough to coat everything in the bowl at the very least<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I want a salad for lunch, this is my go-to. Every time. I can&#8217;t help but love it because it&#8217;s fast to assemble. And since I try to keep cooked quinoa in the fridge weekly, so this is even &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/auntiestacey.com\/?p=3012\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":""},"categories":[22,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3o6Mo-MA","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/auntiestacey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3012"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/auntiestacey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/auntiestacey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auntiestacey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auntiestacey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3012"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/auntiestacey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3016,"href":"https:\/\/auntiestacey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3012\/revisions\/3016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/auntiestacey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auntiestacey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auntiestacey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}