Curry Hummus

Curry Hummus!

And Gluten Free May!

So here’s the deal. I am not gluten free. I am not an expert on gluten free. I acknowledge that gluten free diets aren’t just trendy but really important for some people, and I also acknowledge that gluten is not the food of the devil.

All that being said, there was some nice things happened when I opted to dip my toes in the gluten-free waters a few weeks ago.

Nice things list:

• You magically eat more vegetables.
• Your tummy feels good.
• You get more creative because you cannot default to bread and company.
• You remember that you actually do, in fact, love other foods besides bread.
• You wake up one day and feel proud of all the good food you’re eating.
• Hey, vegetables. Hey, eggs. Hey, other real foods. Your body is loving you for this.

I didn’t really have a reason to try going gluten free other than feeling like I had gotten a little off-track with my eating in the four months since we lost our son, Afton, and I wanted to right the ship. Get the body back in its groove, you know. I was searching for that kind of feel-good thing that I hadn’t had for… a long time.

Going gluten free for a short while wasn’t necessarily the magic bullet that got me back to ground zero, but it was a helpful way for me to structure my meals. I had started defaulting to bread, and lots of bread, and lots of related bread products during a season when what I needed was comfort food upon comfort food. And I’m not regretful about that in the least. I needed bread during that long winter – sometimes a plain piece of toast with butter was all I could eat.

But as spring emerged, both emotionally and seasonally, opting out of bread and other gluten-y stuff gently lifted me outside the box and reminded that there are also other foods that I do love to eat that aren’t some variation of buttered bread, noodles, and the likes.

FOR EXAMPLE.

I made this lovely curry hummus because I wanted to put it on a wrap (and I DID put it on a wrap and you’re going to love that wrap – patience, grasshopper), but then it was so beautiful and tasted so yummy that I thought the curry hummus deserved its own post. I would absolutely consider this a summertime stocked-fridge staple since it makes an impromptu mid-morning snack or a spur-of-the-moment happy hour a total reality in your life. And luckily, it uses ingredients that many of us POYers probably have on hand at any given moment.

Curry paste. Curry powder (yes, I like both in there). Coconut milk. Chickpeas. Garlic. Lime, right? Gosh, I love me some fresh lime. And something for heat. What’s your poison? I like a pinch-full of cayenne pepper.

Whether you dip with raw veggies or root vegetable chips – because, you know, CHIPS – you will be rocking out with the curry vibes on this one. Mwah.

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