I need more sides in my life. Couscous is a great weekday choice because it’s so quick to make, maybe 20 minutes in total. This recipe is from the Fresh & Healthy DASH Diet Cooking Cookbook which I absolutely love. The DASH (Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension) diet was developed by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute a encourages increasing whole grains, nuts, fruits, vegetables, low-fat dairy and lean proteins and minimizing processed gains, high-fat meats and dairy, sugars and sodium… which is basically more just eating healthy versus a diet.
This couscous recipe is made with vegetable broth to give it some flavor with bites of pine nuts, dried cranberries, and scallions.
Ingredients:
- 2 teaspoons canola oil
- 1/4 cup pine nuts
- 2 cups reduced-sodium vegetable stock
- 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
- 1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
- 1 cup couscous (whole wheat if you can find it)
- 1/3 cup dried cranberries
- 2 scallions, coarsely chopped
Heat the canola oil in a pot over medium-high heat. Add the pine nuts to the oil and cook for 2 to 3 minutes, stirring constantly.
Add the vegetable stock, salt, and pepper.
Bring to a boil and add the couscous and cranberries.
Remove from the heat, cover with a lid, and let sit for 10 minutes. Fluff the couscous and stir in the scallions.
It’s as pretty as it is delicious! The bites of cranberry add a nice pop of flavor to the couscous and I loved the crunch of the pine nuts.
You may notice that the couscous isn’t the only beautiful thing in these photos. Look at those stunning serving spoons!
The hand carved serving spoons were sent to me by World Vision, a Gift Catalog that allows you to give a truly meaningful gift this holiday season. The catalog is filled with items for every budget ($16 to $39,000) that help children and families in need worldwide.
The World Vision Gift Catalog offers an alternative (or addition to) traditional holiday gift giving. You can choose a gift for these families that fits your financial abilities and personal tastes. For example, a gardener may enjoy giving hybrid or drought-resistant seeds to a farmer with a donation of just $17 to help one family. Or a child may be the perfect recipient of a donation of $35 which buys new toys such as stuffed animals, dolls, sports equipment, simple games, and more. Because of donations from leading companies, this gift actually goes 12 times further to provide fun-filled toys (it would buy $420 worth of new toys).
With a financial contribution, the gift giver can select one of 36 items that you will get while helping a person in need. The spoons shown above come with a donation of $65 (to put in perspective, a donation of $64 equals education for 2 children). The Hand-Carved Serving Spoons come in a gift bag of African fabric and benefit the orphans of the Kamba tribe in Kenya. The wonderful people at World Vision Gift Catalog have offered to give another set of these spoons away to a lucky reader! All you have to do is use the Rafflecopter widget below to enter. Good luck!
So if you are trying to figure out the perfect gift for those in your life, consider paging through the World Vision Catalog to see if something inspires you!
I would give the business loan for a women. It would give her strength and control for her own future and her children.
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If I had unlimited funds I’d build a school for $22000. I know how important education has been for my husband and me, and we’ve kept that emphasis on our children now in college. It makes me sad to think of children without education. Plus education is the way out of poverty and into a better life.
You need to add a pin button so I can pin your yummy recipes like this one. Sounds great.
Thanks!!
Ooops….never mind. I just found the pin button after I’d already posted you didn’t have one. I’m a goof LOL.
Haha so glad you saw it! Thanks for pinning!
I really like this couscous recipe, the addition of the cranberries seems to give a sweetness and tartness to the overall dish that I wouldn’t have thought to add. Thanks for the great recipes!
I’m glad you like it Karla!
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The business loan to women would be what I would most like to give. SISTA POWER
The buisness is what I would do.
If I had the means, I would love to give homes to people without them. What an amazing gift.
what a beautiful organization — I am looking forward to looking through their catalog for my christmas shopping so thank you for exposing me to them!! I would like to enter the giveaway but am having trouble finding the ‘Rafflecopter widget’.. can you help?
and the couscous recipe looks awesome!!
Thank you!
For $22,000 you can build a school…. A SCHOOL!! Considering that would cover only desks in 2 classrooms and maybe some shitty cafeteria ingredients for a couple months here in the US, it’s amazing how far money can go. Also, imagining not having clean water at your finger tips each day is hard to swallow. For $500 you can donate to a clean water fund .. And with unlimited funds you don’t have to buy just one! I like this site — having a nice time browsing it! Thanks for sharing!
Wow, what a wonderful post and organization! I would give clothing, money for the Hope for Sexually Exploited Girls or the medicine. how did you get involved with this organization? this is really awesome.
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