Raw rice cooked fish?

After seeing many posts about “jicama rice” in the blog world, I couldn’t help but jump on the bandwagon. I bought a fresh jicama, to pulverize in the food processor, but had the hardest time peeling it. Is it just me, or is jicama impossible to peel? Please let me know if you have an easier way to peel it .

Once I food-processed the crunchy vegetable, I wasn’t sure what to do with it. Hmmm, what is the best way to have white rice? And the answer was just then so obvious to me—sushi! I decided to use cooked salmon though, because that’s what we had on hand. Hence, the raw rice, cooked fish blog title .

As I was scrounging around for the nori, I discovered we had a bunch of chopped (or cut-with-kitchen-scissors) nori lying around. Then I thought, hey why not make a sushi bowl, and make it 10xs easier on myself? This brings me to:

California Salmon Bowl

1 1/2 cups jicama rice (plain rice would be great too!)

1/2 tsp sesame oil

1 tsp sesame seeds

salt to taste

2-3T seasoned rice vinegar

wasabi to taste

1 persian cucumber

1/4-1/2 cup salmon (seasoned with mayo if desired)

1/4-1/2 an avocado

handful of nori pieces

First, season the jicama rice with the sesame oil, sesame seeds,

Korean toasted sesame seeds

salt, vinegar, and wasabi:

in a tube!

Add the rest of the ingredients and enjoy .

the nori I used

all mixed up

spoonful of deliciousness

I also had a side of this of course,

kabocha love

Cannot do without my carbs, especially in the form of kabocha .

I would also like to talk a little bit about fats. Many wonderful blogs have been talking about the subject recently, including Michelle’s, Karen’s, and Heather’s. Back in the day, I was about as fat-free as you can get. My salads had no oil, I hardly ate more than a few nuts at a time, and I would use cooking spray for “frying” and sautéing. I thought skim yogurt, fat-free snacks, and nonfat eats were the way to go. Then, I got wiser (thanks to all the plethora of information out there, especially in the lovely blogging world ), and took baby steps towards incorporating fats back in.

I currently eat a ~tablespoon of chia seeds and almond milk in the morning, a teaspoon or so of almond butter and a hunk of hummus for lunch, and about a teaspoon of oil for dinner. I thought I was getting enough fats through my diet, but with all these various posts, I think not. During the course of the day, I probably don’t even get 2 tablespoons worth of oil. In addition, I’m lacking in energy often (although it has improved!) and have hormone issues.  So, I declare today as the first day to change all that and to add more healthy fats in with no more fear of gaining weight. Who’s with me ? I already started the day with some of this:

and this:

yummy!

Have you benefited from the goodness of healthy fats? If so, how?

Edited  to add: Don’t forget that today’s your last day to apply the HeartsWholeFoods code at Yoga Downloads! I highly recommend the Sun Salutations flow, which I did last Sunday. Ahh, my arms are still sore from all those chatarungas