I don't know why eating from a bowl is more of an exciting way to eat but I guess life is all about variety isn't it! They are a convenient way to eat and the array of combinations you can create give bursts of aesthetically pleasing colour, giving you pleasure from every bowl that you careful put together. The different parts to the bowl will have minimum cooking so that the vegetables you use can remain crunchy and fresh and the protein flavoured with spices to add some zing!
A quick internet search reveals a few theories as to why Buddha bowls are so named. Buddha was all about keeping things simple and keeping ones food all in one place was seen as ideal. Authors of "Buddha's Diet" Zigmond and Cottrell say that "Buddha woke up before dawn every morning and carried his bowl through the roads or paths wherever he was staying. Local people would place food in the bowl as a donation, and at the end he would eat whatever he had been given". Living at time when he did, Buddha ate from a bowl that held simple, healthy food like rice and curry and today this idea of a Buddha bowl holding foods like grains, green vegetables and a protein is carried on.
The Buddha bowl I built the night before last was a tasty feast of colourful goodness- brown basmati rice, black beans cooked with onion, lemon, cumin, coriander powder and chilli flakes, crunchy spreads of red cabbage, grated carrot, celery, red tomatoes and avocado. I prepared my bowl as a communal bowl and my family served their portions into my beautifully recycled coconut shells (now sanded and polished coconut bowl). I love these bowls which are a fantastic sustainable alternative to the coconut shells being discarded, create employment and can hold warm and cold food. Every 10 days or so wipe out the bowls with coconut oil to stop them from drying out. They can be sourced from Trade Aid.
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