Arame Bowl

I made another Bowl from Appetite for Reduction tonight. Tonight's rendition was the Nori Bowl, which Isa lists as brown rice, steamed broccoli, azuki beans, Carrot-Ginger Dressing, and shredded nori. Since I had leftover Carrot-Ginger Dressing from the other night, throwing this bowl together was a breeze. All I really had to do was cook up some brown rice, steam some frozen veggies, and find a substitute for nori, since my hubby doesn't like it :) I had a bag of arame in the pantry, so I soaked a big handful for about 5 minutes, drained it, and boom, it was ready to go.

I assembled my bowls as follows: some torn baby spinach, then brown basmati rice, steamed stir-fry veggies (I used a 1-lb mix from Trader Joe's that had broccoli, red pepper, onion, mushrooms, sugar snap peas, water chestnuts, and baby corn), azuki beans, arame, and the Carrot-Ginger dressing:

 Before I mixed 'em all up:

 Post-mixing, with my chopsticks (sorry for the bad lighting):

It was pretty yummy - not my favorite, but nice and healthy. Sometimes I don't care so much if something is super tasty, as long as it is healthy and nutritious. This one definitely fit the bill. My son even ate a few strands of arame, which is cool. I was prepared to tell him it was "black spaghetti," but I didn't have to resort to that! :)