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Complex flavor, EVERYONE loved this!!!!, February 14, 2009
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"It's often difficult for me to cook for SAD-eaters. I think that over time eating a very pure, healthful, and especially vegan diet, our tastebuds totally change. I remember eating whole-grain bread a few years ago and thinking it tasted bitter. Now it tastes sweet to me. I rely now less on salt to flavor foods and more on various combinations of spices and herbs.

My husband is an avid meat-eater. He loves my food, though, because he is used to it and is also an avid veggie-eater. So he is no help in cooking for SAD-eaters because while he eats meat, he does not eat the SAD.

So a couple of weeks ago these Mormon (or LDS, as I think they prefer) missionaries came to our door. I love good conversation and discussion of religion, but unfortunately in the professional world, that is pretty much taboo. So I invited them for lunch.

I was excited. I am Catholic and was not trying to get them here to debate Mormanism vs. Catholicism or anything. I seriously just wanted to hear about their lives and their faith and why they believe what they believe.

On of the guys said he was allergic to nuts. Otherwise, they were your typical, 20 year old guys who will eat just about anything.

My husband bought a huge roast. He told me to figure out a veggie dish. He also pointed out the huge container of couscous he had gotten for me and I had never used (because I have never cooked couscous before--I usually eat brown rice, quinoa, millet, etc.)

So I Googled "couscous, vegan, veggie, recipe" and this recipe was the first link on the search results page.

I used all of the ingredients with the following exceptions: No bell peppers, no zucchini, no olive oil, no cayenne pepper; added apple, egg plant, jalapeno, agave nectar, cloves, coconut oil, and used all other ingredients on the recipe.

This was so delicious. Various flavors, complex, salty and sweet and spicy all at the same time. I do think when I added the Agave Nectar, more flavor emerged, so adding some sweetener is something I would highly recommend.

The Mormons came. They ate the roast and they ate the Couscous with Chickpeas. They raved. They ate seconds.

This will be on my short list of "safe potluck dishes for SAD-eaters". It's also something I will make at least once a month from now on."

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