Carbs for breakfast?! Yeah mon!

I  don't believe I mentioned but Stu is from Jamaica and if you have ever been there, you know that breakfast is not traditional American breakfast. They eat salt fish, callaloo, dumplings, yams, and boiled banana all on the same plate... (lots of carbs which I love), and the bulk of most dishes contain pepper- not black pepper, but the ever so hot and flavorful scotch bonnet pepper. This is no problem for me because I love all things spicy. So when Stu surprised me on Saturday morning with this flavorful mash I was NOT complaining! It was basically boiled potatoes with the skin on, mashed up with raw red onion, scotch bonnet pepper, scallion, salt and a "likkle" bit of almond milk. It is a heavy breakfast depending on how much of it you eat and I admit- the two of us polished off this entire bowl! He said its his take on alloo choka, which is a West Indian dish. I am one lucky girl because I have a man who loves (and know how) to cook!

Bean Noodles Stir Fry

Stu said this has been his favorite dish so far. I used bean noodles which he prefers to the rice noodles. Tossed in broccoli, squash, mushrooms, scallions, garlic, tamari sauce, chili sauce and peanut sauce. I will take a pic of the sauces we use because they are GFV and I only use a spoon or two when cooking a dish so they last a long time.

Amazing Polenta

Friday night we went to get more salad stuff for dinner. I prefer making several trips to the store than buying it in advance and having it wilt in the fridge. We were still un-decisive about what to have with our salad and I came across the Polenta- Sundried tomato polenta.

I browned it in some olive oil and threw in some  Mario Botali's marinara sauce, which is my new favorite marinara sauce by the way. There are so few ingredients which makes me love it even more.

This was our very quick and yummy dinner.

Greenwave Cafe

On Saturday night we decided to check out a local raw food restaurant in Plantation called Greenwave cafe. I ordered the "burrito" pictured above.  I have to say it was extremely fresh and the taste was AMAZING. They make the best guacamole. I was skeptical to try the cheese sauce made from cashews but was pleasantly surprised by it all! Stu had the "cheeseburger" -

We had some tasty nachos as well-

We topped it all off by sharing an almond milk cappuccino and taking a dessert to go.  All in all we had a great, fresh, raw meal, served by friendly staff and were home in time watch "The Firm" :)

Something with Rice Noodles

I am a major carb-craver who has been missing my favorite meal of all time -Panang Curry. I'm sure that there are great GFV recipes out there but I had to use what was already in the pantry. After spending $300 on groceries this weekend we vowed to stay out of the store until at least a week. So this recipe was just a creation that turned out so tasty!

GFV chili sauce and peanut sauce were used but only a couple spoons of each with addition of Tamari Sauce , which is a Gluten Free soy sauce.

I sauteed the following with a tad of sesame oil in my Wok:
Garlic, green onion, mushrooms
a few spoons chili sauce (depending on how spicy you want it!)
baby corn
fresh steamed broccoli (I steamed in the microwave for two minutes)

Then I threw the boiled rice noodles into the wok and stirred it all up and tasted :)
Thats when I added a couple TBS of peanut sauce and Tamari to taste.

Topped w fresh cilantro. Quick and easy.