Quinoa and Kiwi

Someday I will serve this to my future children, and they will refuse to eat it because they'll claim it looks like barf.

And, despite the fact that I will try to convince my future children that it is a nutritious dish of quinoa in a spicy tomato sauce including Farmers' Market tomatoes, three cloves garlic, cumin, mustardseed, chili peppers, and turmeric-and-pepper (for their precious health), they will continue to insist that it looks like barf and they want hot dogs.

Also they'll probably compare the kiwi to snot or something.

(The quinoa dish tasted really good, btw--much better than it looks! I probably should have plated the quinoa into a mound, made a well with my spoon, and ladled in the sauce. Then, at least, I could have told my future children it was a volcano. A volcano... of nutrients.)

...And A Sensible Dinner

This meal suffers from too much of the same color; but I suppose the plum was purple before I cut into it, and I could just as easily have turned the slices skin-facing-up.

The white stuff on the right is yogurt with chutney powder, a combination I have to admit I really enjoy. I know I'm completely mixing cuisines to serve chutney powder with spaghetti, but I don't care.

Oh, and if you scroll down and see the pictures I took of this morning's breakfast and lunch, you can see how the lighting changes in my apartment between 9 a.m. and 8 p.m.. Not that it's interesting to anyone else but me, but it makes a surprising difference in the clarity of the photography.

...And A Nutritious Lunch

Whole-wheat "organic" spaghetti with Farmers' Market tomatoes, sweet red peppers, cilantro, and garlic; a bit of turmeric and pepper (for the health benefits), a handful of lentils (for the protein, obvs), and a good shake of generic Safeway Parmesan cheese.

Every Blog Should Start With A Nutritious Breakfast

Kashi, kiwi, yogurt, and honey.