Eat: Curried Chickpea Sweet Potato Quinoa

as a part-time vegetarian, getting enough protein is sometimes not super easy for me. my basic philosophy is to not buy meat. i don't hate meat. i don't love it. i just... don't care about it. i mean, if you served me a steak, i would eat it. and i like fish and chicken. i'll even eat pork as long as it has actual fibers of meat in it. but i won't spend money on it. i'm saving up for adventures, here!
instead, i eat eggs, quinoa, chickpeas, beans, cottage cheese, yogurt, hemp seeds.. lots of other stuff sub in really well. and i eat fish or chicken at work on the weekends for free.
so this wednesday evening, i stood in my meatless kitchen and considered the options for topping up the protein midweek. this is what i decided on, and it has protein coming from quinoa, chickpeas and spinach, which all complement each other in the types of proteins and amino acids they provide. and it's delicious.
i didn't make this recipe up really, i got inspired by StitchnDish because i had chickpeas and sweet potatoes and spinach and figured there must be some way to combine them, so i consulted the internet to make sure i wasn't crazy. StitchnDish had the same idea apparently. she adds green peas in also, which would be good, except i didn't have any so i just left them out. also, i wish this had a little bit more of a sauce to it. so if you have an idea for that let me know!

git some:
quinoa
chickpeas
sweet potato
onion
spinach
curry
cumin
vegetable stock

do this:
1. cook the quinoa in vegetable stock (i do mine in the rice cooker. one part quinoa to two parts liquid. it will stick if you don't use cooking spray, but i think cooking spray is gross, so i just use my muscles afterwards when i wash the pot)
2. boil some water and boil the sweet potatoes in little chunks for a bit until they're mostly soft.
3. while the quinoa and the potatoes are cooking, put some olive oil and onion in a largish pan, let them cook until they turn kind of see-through.
4. add the sweet potatoes to the onions and throw in the curry and cumin. stir it around a bit and add a bit of vegetable stock. like maybe 1/2 cup. add the can of chickpeas and a lot more spinach than you think you want. it cooks down major.
5. stir stir stir
6. when the spinach is cooked down, it's done! whoop.
7. serve on top of the quinoa. i add fresh bananas to every curry i eat, so you should probably try that out.