I tend to go through serious phases with food. Not just fleeting obsessions that last for a week, but long phases that can stretch on for years.
When I was a kid, it was potatoes. I begged my dad to make his leek and potato soup all the time, and if I couldn't have that, I wanted baked potatoes. My parents always joked that I must have a lot of Irish in me.
When I was a teenager, it was sandwiches. Without fail, I packed a turkey sandwich for lunch every day. And when we went to eat out at restaurants, you can bet I got a sandwich. I still remember my favourite: it was the Mediterranean chicken focaccia sandwich with goat cheese, spinach, and aioli from Jack Astor's. I must have ordered that sandwich at least 10 times.
These days, it's rice bowls. I have come to believe that everything tastes better over rice: stir fries, tacos filling, sushi filling, you name it. Even if you just take your average dinner with chicken, rice and broccoli and throw it in a bowl together with sauce, I think it tastes so much better than if it were eaten on a plate!
These are three of my current rice bowl obsessions:
1.The burrito bowl
The layers:
a. Brown rice
b. Black beans simmered with onions, cumin and chili powder
c. Chopped tomato
d. Shredded romaine lettuce
e. Sour cream or 2% Greek yogurt
f. Guacamole
2. The stir fry
The layers:
a. Brown rice
b. Vegetables (onion, broccoli, carrots, sweet peppers, kale) stir fried in canola oil
c. Tempeh marinated in sesame oil, soy sauce and rice wine vinegar then pan fried
d. Sunbutter sauce
3. The Buddha bowl
Recipe here.
This post is part of the What I Ate Wednesday link up on Peas and Crayons' blog. Go check it out!
Do you go through food phases?
What's your favourite kind of rice bowl?
When I was a kid, it was potatoes. I begged my dad to make his leek and potato soup all the time, and if I couldn't have that, I wanted baked potatoes. My parents always joked that I must have a lot of Irish in me.
When I was a teenager, it was sandwiches. Without fail, I packed a turkey sandwich for lunch every day. And when we went to eat out at restaurants, you can bet I got a sandwich. I still remember my favourite: it was the Mediterranean chicken focaccia sandwich with goat cheese, spinach, and aioli from Jack Astor's. I must have ordered that sandwich at least 10 times.
These days, it's rice bowls. I have come to believe that everything tastes better over rice: stir fries, tacos filling, sushi filling, you name it. Even if you just take your average dinner with chicken, rice and broccoli and throw it in a bowl together with sauce, I think it tastes so much better than if it were eaten on a plate!
These are three of my current rice bowl obsessions:
1.The burrito bowl
The layers:
a. Brown rice
b. Black beans simmered with onions, cumin and chili powder
c. Chopped tomato
d. Shredded romaine lettuce
e. Sour cream or 2% Greek yogurt
f. Guacamole
2. The stir fry
The layers:
a. Brown rice
b. Vegetables (onion, broccoli, carrots, sweet peppers, kale) stir fried in canola oil
c. Tempeh marinated in sesame oil, soy sauce and rice wine vinegar then pan fried
d. Sunbutter sauce
3. The Buddha bowl
Recipe here.
This post is part of the What I Ate Wednesday link up on Peas and Crayons' blog. Go check it out!
Do you go through food phases?
What's your favourite kind of rice bowl?
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