September 6, 2012
I lied at the end of the last post.
More like mislead. When I said I didn't cook anything the last few days, I literally meant cook. I didn't use heat to make food, but I did make this awesome broccoli marionberry salad. After the two titular ingredients I also added sunflower seeds and walnuts or almonds. The dressing is a tad of olive oil and a bit more apple cider vinegar. It was phenomenal, especially after marinating in the fridge for a day or two. The nuts soak up all the berry juices and become very voluptuous. If soaking nuts in water is supposed to enhance their nutritional quality, then soaking them in berry juice has got to make them a nutritional powerhouse.
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| My broccoli marionberry salad. |
Also, for dinner tonight I also did cook, but not from a recipe. I steamed some wild rice and quinoa, ate that with left over curry, toppled some broccoli salad on a bed of spinach and topped it all off with some fresh basil and cilantro leaves from our yard. It created a colorful and diverse medley with a lot of flavor.
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| My colorful and diverse dinner. |
I almost forgot that I had an heirloom tomato, too! I am so spoiled. You can see it in the background.
For those of you who may be thinking, "that's just rabbit food!" and wondering how eating a bunch of vegetables is supposed to sustain a human being, I'll have you know that this meal is perfectly sustaining and extremely nutritious. It's lacking in almost no nutrient! Here's a quick nutritional profile mostly from off the top of my head:
Protein: Wild rice, quinoa, potato, garbanzo beans, sunflower seeds, almonds and broccoli (minute)
Complex carbohydrate: wild rice, quinoa, almonds (minute)
Fat: coconut milk (saturated and unsaturated), almonds (saturated and unsaturated), garbanzo beans (unsaturated), sunflower seeds (saturated and unsaturated)
Iron: Spinach, wild rice, almonds, sunflower seeds, garbanzo beans, coconut milk
Vitamin C: Broccoli, coconut milk
Vitamin A: Spinach, broccoli, tomato
Calcium: Spinach, broccoli, coconut milk, garbanzo beans, almonds
Omega-3 fatty acids: Walnuts
Antioxidants: EVERYTHING! Especially the berries.
Excuse me now as I indulge in my fluffy zucchini bread!
