Vegetable Rice

Ingredients:
1-cup basmati rice,
1-cup chopped carrot,
1-cup green peas,
1\2-cup chopped capsicum,
8-piece cinnamon,
10-piece kismis,
Salt to taste.

Method:
Step 1: Soak basmati rice for an hour.

Step 2: Turn on the flame and put the vessel of soak rice and add water if needed.
Step 3: Add green peas and cinnamon in it.
Step 4: After few minutes add chopped carrot, capsicum and kismis in it.

Step 5: When rice is cook then turn off the flame.

Step 6: Serve hot with Rasam of Daal fry.

White-Gourd Halwa

Ingredients:
2-cup grated white gourd,
1-cup cream of milk,
2-cup milk,
1-cup sugar,
1-tbsp cardamom powder,
10-strips saffron,
1\2-cup chopped almonds and cashew nut.

Method:
Step 1: In a small bowl take two tbsp milk and add half of the saffron and keep aside.
Step 2: Heat the milk and cream in pan.

Step 3: Add grated white gourd in median flame.

Step 4: Stirring gently continuously.

Step 5: After 15-minutes add sugar in it and mix well.

Step 6: Heat for 5-minutes more with gentle stir and add saffron milk.

Step 7: Serve white gourd halwa either cold or hot.

Step 8: Decorate with almond , cashew nut and remaning saffron.

My sketch after a long time.

Gluten-Free Gypsy Soda Bread

Gluten-free soda bread, gypsy style.

By the time I attended art school and launched into life on my own I had moved ten times and attended nine different schools in four different states. Not all that unusual, I imagine, for many Americans. And for those of us with nomadic ancestry it simply feels natural to do so, to gather up and move in sync with the wheel of the seasons, aligned with winged migrations and turning stars.

I have always kept a gypsy heart, even when it wasn't easy. Even when I let her out only in my deepest dreams, inside a brushstroke, or as I stirred a makeshift dough with one of my young sons, improvising ingredients on a budget so small every dollar bill mattered.

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A Simple Bowl of Rice

Simple rice bliss.

A simple bowl of brown rice and veggies. Not even a recipe bliss.

Inside this humble gluten-free goddess is an on-again off-again vegan/vegetarian. For almost forty years I politely declined meat- though I did eat eggs and cheese, and during my pregnancies, I ate fish. During the prickly years of peri-menopause I added small amounts of chicken or turkey into my weekly menu.

Celiac is an interesting twist in all this life-long veggie love. It has deepened my gratitude for simple joys, like sitting outside in the warm spring sun, holding a bowl of short grain brown rice topped with roasted vegetables. On a day like this I cannot help but feel so damn lucky.

So today, as the warm sun lingers longer than it did yesterday on our small casita tucked into the junipered hill by the mesa, I thought I might celebrate a simple bowl. A bowl of chewy, earthy gluten-free goodness, satisfying and fabulous.

A Simple Bowl of Rice

Leftovers make this hot lunch super fast and easy. So plan ahead and cook a little extra rice for dinner.

3/4 cup cooked short grain brown rice, per person
1 cup of assorted stir-fried fresh veggies, per person
Extra virgin olive oil
Sea salt

Heat a splash of extra virgin olive in a skillet and add the cooked brown rice and veggies. Season with sea salt. Stir with a wooden spoon until heated through and sizzling.

Spoon into your favorite bowl and sit outside, if you can, breathing in the spring. Or find a spot by a window, and sit in the sun.

Hold your bowl. Smile. Eat!

[GF] Goddess Cookie Bars on BBC Slink? Cool.

Today's BBC - Slink featured an upbeat-offbeat [and often tongue-in-cheek] article on food allergies and intolerances titled, A-List Allergies, and linked to this [GF] Goddess recipe for Chocolate Chip Cookie Squares, listing said delights as reason numero uno to look on the "Bright Side" of having a food allergy, cuz, and I quote: "Tons of people have them - You immediately belong to a secret club full of people coming up with kickass special recipes. So next time your mates are stuffing their faces with junk you can bust out some tastier and healthier gluten-free cookies.

Very cool.

Fresh Vegetable Soup with Lime

Here's an easy fresh vegetable soup recipe you'll love.

It's still soup weather here in northern New Mexico, so certain individuals lugged out their Crock Pot this week and pondered the gentle, slow art of vegetarian potage. This new soup recipe is fresh tasting and full of flavor, kicked up with spicy green chiles a generous squeeze of lime.

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Easy Mediterranean Tuna & Artichoke Pasta

Pasta and tuna comfort food.

The moment I knew my first marriage was failing faster than you could murmur blueberry pancakes on a stick was the minute my moody first husband shoved his untouched plate of tuna noodle casserole across the lemon-waxed bridal table and declared, I'm not eating this crap.

A man who cannot fathom the comfort- albeit guilty pleasure- of a Wednesday night sixties classic is a person who might also belittle your favorite actor in a role so crackling in its own shiver of guilty pleasure that the hair on the back of your neck stands up when you hear Point Break is on HBO again.

In other words, Dear Reader, if a guy mocks your noodles and your Keanu, it might be time to stiffen your spine and rustle up the courage to reconsider your choice of a life partner.

Yup. You gotta go down, Brah. Vaya con Dios.

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