Impromptu Coconut Rice Bowl

Canadian weather doesn't fool around. It's barely 30 degrees here and snow has been falling all day long. The sad part is, I think it may be colder inside my apartment than it is braving the great outdoors! For dinner I knew I needed to make something that would keep me warm. I planned on making a simple but delicious chickpea curry (I know you must be dying to read about that, so recipe coming soon *wink wink*). After a series of unfortunate events and a sad realization that my can opener had broken, I decided that chickpea curry was not an option tonight. I didn't realize this until after I started making the coconut rice. So now I had some rice boiling while I sat on my kitchen counter in a slump. Cue inspiring pictures of food and a lot of disappointment when I realized a good chunk of the recipes required a can opener. No worries, this story has a happy ending. After about 10 minutes of feeling uninspired by food inspiration, an idea was born! A coconut rice bowl with a fried egg and avocado. So easy, ay yai yai!

I'll save you ten minutes of your life by giving you the blatantly obvious recipe below. No uninspiring food searching for you, my friend!

Coconut Rice Bowl

Ingredients:

~ Coconut milk - 1/2 cup

~ Jasmine rice - 1/2 cup

~ Avocado - 1/2

~ Egg - 1

~ Salt

~ Pepper


*no duh* Instructions

1. Begin cooking the jasmine rice with 1/2 cup water and 1/2 cup coconut milk.

2. While the rice is cooking, fry an egg.

3. Cut your avocado.

4. Put the rice, avocado and egg into a bowl. Add salt and pepper as you wish.

Take your first bite...WOW party in your mouth! I bet you weren't expecting such deliciousness to come out of such a simple recipe! Ah, the beauty of laziness. This bowl will keep you satisfied for a long time after you've finished eating as well.

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Lazy dinners - Vegetarian coconut fried rice

To be honest, I'd say all of the dinners I prepare are lazy dinners. My goal is to make the tastiest dinner possible while doing the least amount of work possible - and keeping it healthy of course. A lazy dinner doesn't have to be a bad one. This lazy dinner is seriously delicious. It's also seriously beautiful with all those vibrant colors mixed together!

Vegetarian coconut fried rice:

Ingredients:

Jasmine rice - 1/2 cup

Coconut milk - 1/2 cup

Water - 1/2 cup

Spinach - 1 overflowing handful

Egg - 2

Broccoli - 1/2 handful

Tomato - 1/2 handful chopped

Onion - 3 tbsp chopped

Salt - 1 tsp

Coconut oil - 1 tbsp



Directions:

1. Cook rice with a 1/2 cup water and a 1/2 cup coconut milk. When the rice has almost completed cooking, add in 1 beautifully overflowing handful of spinach. The spinach will wilt and become a lot less overwhelming to look at. Eating your greens is not as hard as it seems.

2. While the rice is cooking, chop up all of the other ingredients. Crack 2 eggs and whisk. Add a little coconut milk and scramble the eggs in a lightly oiled pan until just cooked.

3. Once rice has finished add rice with spinach, broccoli, tomato and onion to the scrambled eggs. Continue to cook all the ingredients. Drizzle a little coconut oil to the mix. When the broccoli has turned a slightly darker color your fried rice is just about ready.

4. Add 1 tbsp salt and push ingredients around. Transfer to a bowl. Devour all food.

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Breakfast with Belle - Egg and avocado sandwich

It's Monday. Nobody is a fan of Mondays, yet alone Monday mornings. It hasn't been the best Monday I've ever had but at least I ate some good food. I rolled out of bed in a daze, opened my curtains and looked out at the bland grey sky. It's raining here in Toronto. I needed a pick me up for breakfast to get me out of the Monday blues. What better way to start the day than with a delicious egg and avocado breakfast sandwich? This is an easy sandwich to make and of course it's a good one. If only the rest of my day had been as good as this sandwich tasted...

Egg and avocado breakfast sandwich:

Ingredients:
~Bread - Spelt, or any to your liking
~Avocado - 1 half
~Egg - 1 or 2
~Almond butter
~Salt - 1 pinch
~Pepper - 1 pinch

Start by cracking the eggs in a frying pan and cook them sunny side up. I fried 2 eggs but 1 egg would work just fine. Season them with salt and pepper.

While the eggs are frying, peel and slice 1/2 an avocado. Thinner slices will work better when biting into the sandwich. I learned this the hard way. Unfortunately as I was eating mine, avocado was falling out everywhere. Nevertheless my sandwich was divine.

Take two slices of bread and toast them. This should be done second to peeling the avocado because you want to be sure the bread is still warm when the sandwich is ready to be eaten.

The eggs should be done right about now, so place both eggs on one slice of toast. Place the avocado slices on top of the egg. On the second piece of toast, coat a nice and thick layer of almond butter. I was thinking a little bit of honey would be tasty as well but I didn't try this. If anybody does, please let me know how it tastes! I think it would add a nice sweet touch.

Once the almond butter, egg and avocado have been sandwiched between two pieces of toast, you're ready to feast! Enjoy your breakfast sandwich with a tall glass of cold water or some freshly squeezed juice.

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