Sesame Manadarin Brown Rice Salad

Sesame Mandarin Brown Rice Salad

-2 cups cooked brown rice
-1 apple peeled and chopped up
-avocado sliced with the juice of 1 lime and salt and pepper
-1 small purple onion chopped
-2 cooked golden beets (optional)
-1/2 cup roasted sesame seeds
-1/2 cup roasted hulled pumpkins
-1/2 cup roasted almonds
-2 tablespoons hemp seeds
-1 can of mandarin oranges juice drained

Dressing

-1 tablespoons tamari (soya sauce)
-1/2 teaspoon fresh grated ginger
-2 tablespoons rice wine vinegar
-4 tablespoons sesame oil
-2 tablespoons of juice from the mandarins.

-to roast the sesame seeds, pumpkin seeds, almonds dry roast in a frying pan until golden brown on medium heat.

-Mix the avocado, brown rice, apple, onion, beets, sesame seeds, pumpkin seeds, almonds, hemp seeds, and mandarins in a large bowl.  Mix together well.  The mix together the ingredients or the dressing and poor over.  Sesame has an intense strong flavour, so mix and taste, you may need more dressing.

Salad from the weekend

For Earth night I had a friend over and we made salad, cooked pizza and drank wine in the dark.  This salad was also spinach, I realize I make a lot of spinach salad, I like it.  You can use any lettuce that you would like to use...it is good for you and delicious.  See below to see the pictures.

Basic Nutrient Values

According to Ready Pac, 2 cups or 6 oz. of raw baby spinach provides 20 calories, 2 g protein, 0 g fat, 3 g carbohydrates, 2 g dietary fiber and 65 mg sodium. Baby spinach is rich in many micronutrients, including vitamins K, A, C and folate; and the minerals iron, calcium, magnesium and potassium. If you do not consume raw spinach within a few days, many of the vitamins are destroyed.

Vitamins

Baby spinach is very high in vitamin K, A, C and folate. A 2 cup serving of raw baby spinach meets over 25 percent of the Recommended Daily Value or DV for vitamin C and nearly 400 for vitamin K. Vitamin K is essential for normal blood clotting and, in addition, is important for maintaining bone health. Vitamin A is needed for healthy eyesight as well as proper growth and development and, along with vitamin C, helps protect the body's cells and supports immune system function. Folate offers cardiovascular benefits and promotes a healthy pregnancy.

Mineral Absorption

Spinach is rich in calcium -- but it is poorly absorbed by the body because it contains naturally occurring substances known as oxalates. Oxalates bind calcium and prevent most of it from being absorbed by the body. According to the World's Healthiest Foods website, on average, your body absorbs about 10 percent of the calcium in spinach. While cooked spinach is rich in iron, plant foods contain a form of iron called non-heme iron. This form is not as well absorbed and utilized by the body as heme-iron, found in animal foods such as meat. Vitamin C enhances non-heme iron absorption, however.

Mineral Benefits

Although spinach is not the best way to meet your calcium requirements, it is still an excellent source of non-heme iron, magnesium and potassium. Iron is essential for oxygen transport throughout the bloodstream and a healthy immune system. Magnesium, along with vitamin K, is important for maintaining strong, healthy bones, aids in muscle relaxation and, along with potassium, helps regulate blood pressure.

Read more: http://www.livestrong.com/article/258415-what-is-the-nutritional-value-of-baby-spinach/#ixzz1quthcOae

This Salad had pomegranate, mandarin oranges, onions, celery carrots, peppercorn goat cheese.

Very delicious, I used my smoked mustard salad dressing.

Food is personal.  It helps us to be our best.  It's anchored in time 

and place and always tells a story.

Michael Smith

I used my smoked mustard dressing with this salad

Hot hamburger sandwiches

Last night my friend came with a bag of organic fruit and vegetables that she has delivered to her house weekly.  She came bearing the gifts of a mango, which was my snack today.  Radish greens, carrot tops, apples, oranges, zucchini, pears.  A feast, not to mention a pesto sauce she had made and a chickpea, mushroom, crab salad with olives.  We ended up going out for Indian...we were out picking up my daughter from school and the weather changed quickly and we were delayed returning to my place. So we stopped at an Indian restaurant where we enjoyed the delights.  It was unfortunate not to be able to inspire each other in the kitchen.  However my children were able to experience the different tastes of India.  Yum.

Today I had yet another visitor, she is one on my longest friends and it started out she was just going too be here between meetings and it turned into a two meal affair.  It started with a late afternoon snack, we ate the chickpea salad made by friend from yesterday and I made a spinach salad with pomegranate.  I was shocked to fine them in my supermarket this morning and bought three to celebrate!!!! Then as my friends second meeting was rescheduled we first worked to rearrange my apartment and she helped me to de clutter a few items.  I then started making hot hamburger sandwiches.  I know people have asked how to save money with meals etc, I think tonight's dinner was low cost, delicious and quick and easy.  Know, I used pre-made prime rib burgers that I got on sale, regular whole wheat bread and sweet potatoes.  I used a can of beef gravy...which came home with my from the grocery store and someone was given my can of coconut milk :( it a few months ago, and we used it to make hot hamburger sandwiches.


We panned friend the hamburgers than placed in the oven at 300 to keep warm.  


Sweet Potato Goodness


-3 medium sweet potatoes, sliced like coins
-1 small onion diced
-1 tablespoon chilipowder
-1/4 teaspoon cumin
-1/4 teaspoon dry mustard
-salt an pepper
-1 teaspoon tamari soya sauce
-1/4 cup white wine
-1 tablespoon brown sugar
-2 tablespoons parmesan cheese


In a large frying pan I sautéed Onions, sweet potatoes cut like coins in a dash olive oil on medium heat, once they had cooked for about five minutes I started to add the dry spices (Chili powder, cumin, mustard, pepper) I continued to cook until the sweet potatoes were beginning to brown, I added tamari, and the spash of white wine and allowed it to cook, at this point I found it spicy and knowing my friend I added some brown sugar and topped with parmesan cheese and served.