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  • A New View of Healthy Eating: Daily Healthy Recipes by Melanie Albert: Really Quick Intuitive Lunch: Dolmas and Farmers’ Market Left-overs

    by Melanie A. Albert, intuitive cooking expert, author, speaker, retreat host, Founder & CEO Experience Nutrition Group, LLC

    Very often I like to intuitively create a very, very quick lunch using left-overs in my refrigerator. I love Dolmas and used these stuffed grape leaves as the inspiration for the lunch. With a Mediterranean focus, I added farmers’ market organic veggies and rich black Beluga lentils. Plus, I really wanted to enjoy fresh light pea sprouts from Steadfast Farm and bright edible flowers from Maya’s Farm.

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    You’ll notice in the ingredient list I do not include amount of the different ingredients. In making an intuitive dish, use your intuition to choose a few of your favorite veggies and their amount. A dish created this way will be different and delicious every time.

    SIMPLE INGREDIENTS

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    Ingredients in order of plating…

    • Black Beluga lentils
    • Dolmas, sliced
    • Avocado, sliced
    • Local yellow and red tomatoes
    • Romanesco tips
    • Capers
    • Sea salt
    • Pea shoots
    • Edible flowers

    SIMPLE PLATING

    Get your plating mise en place set…

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    Mindfully plate the ingredients one-by-one and enjoy your lunch…

    ACTION: I invite you to choose a few ingredients in your refrigerator and mindfully and intuitively create a lunch. Share your culinary creations with us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/NewViewHealthyEating

    Buy Melanie’s cookbook, with 54 whole food, plant-based, gluten-free recipes…

    A few views of the Intuitive Lunch plate…

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