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My latest lunch fixation has been brown jasmine rice (which may be a made-up varietal, but I like it anyway) and quinoa. I boil salted water, add the rice, and cook it for 13 minutes; then I add the quinoa and cook the whole mixture for another 4 or 5 minutes. The rice ends up cooked but firm, and the quinoa is still a little crunchy. I never measure the two, but I tend to add about 3 parts rice to 2 parts quinoa.
Once those are cooked, I add whatever mix-ins I have around. This week, it was yellow squash (grated, salted, and squeezed dry, and mixed in while the rice is hot, so that the squash softens a tiny bit), chimichurri sauce (extra from the steak with chimichurri for dinner we had this week), and pistachios. I laid a few slices of avocado on top for general healthfulness, a change in texture, and some additional yellow and green for my dual-chrome palette. The two dark orbs are ripe, fragrant plumcots from the Greenmarket.
What's in your lunch today? See some of the twins' past lunches.
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