Valencia has such a great offer of restaurants, coffee shops, take away and street food that one can spend a lot of time without needing to cook.
But, both me and @dragosroua love cooking and we enjoy having a peaceful, cozy lunch or dinner in the privacy of our current home.
And since we are 2 minutes away from one of the most beautiful and rich markets in Valencia, the Mercat Central, we decided we will take advantage of its resources and of our basic kitchen utilities.
So yesterday, I made a quick lunch for both of us.
Nothing fancy or difficult to make, just a simple omelet with onions and red bell peppers and sauteed asparagus in a dash of olive oil and garlic. For the salad, I just chopped some tomatoes (I didn't discover yet a type that I really enjoy, still looking for it) and added some avocado (which so far has been just PERFECT. Raise your hand if you share my joy when you buy a perfectly ripe, ready to eat avocado :).
To make this even tastier I added some fresh basil leaves into the mix, a bit of salt and lemon juice and that was it. The combination of tomato, avocado, and fresh basil is one of my all-time favorites!
We also had a bit of red wine and some local cheese that resembles the parmesan but it's made here in Spain.
This was one of the few gluten-free meals I had since we arrived here. Although it's quite easy to find vegetarian and vegan food it's quite a challenge to eat without gluten when on every corner there's a Panaria or Pizzeria or another type of restaurant that sells amazing pastry, pizza, and other delicious food.
So I've been eating quite a lot of glutenous foods since arriving here, I'm now making an experiment to see how I feel when I introduce it back into my diet. So far, so good.
Namaste
Wow. This dish looks so delicious and so healthy.
I am changing my eating habits since the beginning of this month by eating gluten free food, well, not so gluten free, but no flour/wheat products to see how I feel, so I'm looking for healthy dishes like yours to get more ideas, so I really appreciate you sharing this amazing dish.
I hope you will be all good after introducing the glutenous foods back into your diet.
Good luck with your new diet, I hope it works out well for you. When I started my gluten-free experiment the easiest thing was to replace regular bread with rice cakes. Then I slowly discovered the gluten-free alternatives to pasta, flour for pizza and other stuff like that.
You're welcome! If you want more gluten-free recipes I've shared a bunch of them on my blog here on Steemit, you just need to scroll down for them :)
I hope so too, I'll see how I feel after these 2 weeks.
That is how I started with rice cakes too.
I will definitely check out your other gluten-free recipes.
Thank you a lot and yes, I can't wait to see how you feel in two weeks too.
nothing better than green asparagus! :) love the combination, very inspiring