Food for Dissertating

  More cold (or at least room temperature) food: Rainbow onigirazu, a cup of sriracha mayo, and carrot-zucchini salad with ginger sesame dressing (recipe from Babaganosh ). The store was out of yellow squash, so this is just zucchini and carrots, but it was remarkably good. I used my julienne peeler instead of spiralizing it because I prefer carrots that way, and I think that was the right choice.  A friend sent me some purple sweet potato powder a while ago, so I made purple rice with it, inspired by a recipe I found online for sweet potato sushi . For once, my version turned out more vibrant than the original seemed to, but that might be because I was confused--I couldn't tell whether you added the powder and seasonings before or after it was cooked, so I cooked it together. And I got such a pretty purple rice, plus it was tasty, too! Alongside the sweet potato rice, I had cucumbers, pickled red cabbage, and smoked tofu. It was amazing with sriracha mayo.