Today's lunch

[pegkerr]

Red cabbage slaw (mixed with chopped cranberries and tossed with a combination of orange juice, rice vinegar and sugar); quinoa timbales [quinoa and cornmeal cooked in water/orange juice mixture with a little chopped onion--shhhh, don't tell Delia--until liquid is absorbed, add orange zest, cinnamon, cumin, and chopped organic dried apricots; press into a container/mold sprayed with cooking spray (I used one of the small containers from my laptop lunchbox), and pop out of the mold immediately]; endamame and baby carrots; and one of my favorite lunchbox desserts: a mixture of cottage cheese and apple butter.

Comments

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

What's in the quinoa timbales? Are the red bits I see tomato, bell pepper, or something different completely?

[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

Orange zest and chopped dried apricots. The dried apricots are a bit darker than what you usually see in stores because they're organic.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Mmmmm!

[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

There's some cinnamon and cumin in them, too.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

And rightly so.