Happy Monday everyone! I hope you all had a wonderful weekend. I had a great night on Saturday catching up with some fabulous ladies. Good food, good wine, good company, cute babies, sunshine, and a bonfire! Couldn’t be any more perfect.
This Meatless Monday recipe was inspired by a salad that my friend Jana brought. She’s a nutritionist and it’s always great to talk food and health with her; she’s full of awesome ideas. Check out her website, Nature Does it Best.
The dressing had a Caesar-like taste to it but with none of the raw eggs or anchovies (that’s right, a classic Caesar dressing always has raw eggs and anchovies in it!) I had some asparagus and green beans that I got at the market on Friday so I knew I had to cook those up. I tossed them on a bed of lettuce from the garden and it made a pretty yummy Meatless Monday salad.


- 1 bunch of asparagus
- 3 cups fresh green beans
- 4 cups lettuce
- 1/4 cup slivered almonds
- For the dressing: Yields 1/2 cup
- 1/4 cup hemp seeds
- 1/4 cup water
- 1 Tbsp nutritional yeast
- 1 Tbsp fresh lemon juice
- 1 clove of garlic
- S&P to taste
- Preheat BBQ to med-high heat.
- Wrap beans and asparagus in tinfoil tents and put them on the top shelf of the BBQ.
- Cook the green beans for about 20 minutes and the asparagus for about 8 minutes depending on the thickness. You can also finish the asparagus right on the grill for added flavour.
- Meanwhile, add all the dressing ingredients to a blender and blend on high until smooth and creamy.
- Once the beans and asparagus are cooked, add them on top of the lettuce, sprinkle with 1 Tbsp of slivered almonds and drizzle with 1 Tbsp of dressing.
- Enjoy!
- 123 Calories, 12g Carbs, 6g Fat, 8g Protein, 2g Sugar
- Nutritional info is gathered from MyFitnessPal and may not always be 100% accurate. It is meant to be used as a reference only.





This is genius and looks delicious! Can’t wait to make it!
Awesome! Let me know how it goes 🙂
I will! Making it tonight 🙂
🙂 🙂
Hmm I have never had hempseed, but it looks delicious!
It makes a wonderful creamy dressing 🙂
It was delicious…even the kids ate it!! 🙂
Awesome! That’s so great to hear 🙂
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