Moroccan Quinoa Veggie Bowl
I can eat this dish for any meal, any day of the week. It contains the perfect combination of ingredients in my opinion--roasted cauliflower, sweet potato and red onion along with quinoa, kale and chickpeas. All brought together in a pan sautéed with olive oil spiced with garlic, cinnamon, coriander, cumin and ginger.
Gluten-Free Cauliflower Fried Rice
For those who have to eat strictly gluten-free, Chinese food is off limits for the most part…unless you find the very rare dedicated gluten-free Chinese restaurant. So, when a craving hits, you have to make it yourself, like I do with this Cauliflower Fried Rice. To make it a full Chinese experience, I pair it with some great frozen egg roll/potsticker options, that cook up just like you’d get in a restaurant. Even my gluten-eating husband is impressed with the authentic flavors.
Summer Quinoa Salad
I love the Japanese philosophy and artistic expression of wabi-sabi: appreciating the beauty in the imperfect. We don’t appreciate the beauty of imperfection in Western society, so we have to take the initiative to cultivate it for ourselves and within the communities and cultures to which we belong. What does this have to do with Summer Quinoa Salad? Nothing, except that the day I created this recipe, I was reminded of the concept of wabi-sabi and wanted to pass it along.
Kichadi
If you haven’t heard of kichadi (or kichari), it’s a South Asian rice and beans porridge containing ingredients to ease an irritated and inflamed GI tract, including ginger, turmeric and fennel. Eat is just as is or used as the base of a bowl where you add vegetables, nuts and/or seeds, and a complementary green herb.