Primal Goat Cheese, Spinach and Pumpkin Salad –
Here is a special guest post from a great blog called The Kitchen Rag! Also make sure to like her on her page on Facebook! Diana Glasser is a blogger and Hawthorne nutrition student in Portland, Oregon. She is married to my younger sister’s soon to be husband’s brother. My sister is marrying Micah Glasser in June 2013 and Diana is married to his younger brother Clayton Glasser, I hope that all makes sense, LOL.(You can see Micah making Primal Pizza on my blog here.)
Me and Diana met up once for grass fed burgers in SF (at Roam) and hit it off right away talking all things health and we have been blogger buddies ever since (and soon we will be family!).
From The Kitchen Rag:
This is a dish I came up with one day by accident. I had a butternut squash that was in need of being cooked and some spinach that was begging to be made into a salad. We all get pretty creative when we are hungry and processed foods and flour are not an option!
I find that this salad is great as a side dish for dinner or as the main option for your lunch. You could always add some grass fed meat to it to make it even more filling. I have tried it several different ways and it never fails to satisfy me. It is super simple to put together but it sure looks gourmet – my friends are always impressed when I make it even though it takes me no time at all 😉
Primal Goat Cheese, Spinach and Pumpkin Salad
Ingredients
- Butternut squash or Japanese pumpkin (common on the West Coast)
- 1 cup of walnuts
- 10 ounces of spinach or more if you like
- 1/2 cup of raw feta or chevre
- 2 tablespoons of coconut oil
- 1 tsp of cracked pepper
Instructions
4. Scrape out all the seeds.
It’s the combination of antioxidant and anti-inflammatory compounds in
winter squash that have shown this food to have clear potential in the
area of cancer prevention. Prostate cancer is the
cancer type that has been of greatest research interest in this regard,
followed by colon cancer, breast cancer, and lung cancer.(Source)
The vitamin K provided by spinach — almost 200% of the Daily Value in one cup of fresh spinach leaves and over 1000% of the Daily Value in one cup of boiled spinach (which contains about 6 times as much spinach)—is important for maintaining bone health. Vitamin K1 helps prevent excessive activation of osteoclasts, the cells that break down bone. Additionally, friendly bacteria in our intestines convert vitamin K1 into vitamin K2, which activates osteocalcin, the major non-collagen protein in bone. Source
Primal Goat Cheese, Spinach and Pumpkin Salad
