Welcome to our new regular blog post, “Food Friday”!  Daniel and I both love to cook and we both love photography so we thought it would be fun to share that little piece of our life with you.  Today’s food post comes with a little story too.

Daniel devours books, several at a time, where I have had one book sitting on my bed-side table, half read, for about 2 years.  I would not consider myself a “reader” anymore.  I used to escape into books and waste away the hours in worlds between pages, but something happened.  I don’t know if it was the text books in college that lead to burn out or the fact that time has become a precious commodity and it doesn’t lend itself to book reading anymore. Every once in a while though I get a book in my hand that is easy to just pour through, a book that reminds me of the days when a sunny spot on my bed and the white crisp pages of a new book was all I needed to feel happy.

There have been two books like this in the last couple years, In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto and most recently Food Rules, both by Michael Pollan. They are not “diet” books or books about “food science” or books that are preachy in any way, shape or form.  He is just a journalist who writes in a captivating style about: where does food in the supermarket REALLY come from, the challenges the modern farmer faces, how government plays a role in the food that you get in the supermarket, the history of food and how it has changed, and how we should be eating to be healthier.  I tell you, fascinating stuff!

The long and the short of it is, I am inspired and motivated to cook new things, learn to cook with more vegetables leaving the word “bland” out of it, and really just cook MORE.  Hence, the recipe below!  It is spicy, sweet, packed full of veggies, and not short on flavor AT ALL!  Yum-EEE.

Today’s Feature: Quinoa with Moroccan Stew (with acorn squash, parsnip, sweet potato, and carrot)

A little modification of the recipe here