3 recipes that will bowl you over at breakfast, lunch and dinner

Bowls. You eat cereal in a bowl. You eat soup in a bowl. But bowl eating is something else entirely. The idea is to use a bowl — playing off the roundness, the curve of the vessel — to layer food into one satisfying meal. Bowls work for morning, noon and night. For instance, you can place a layer of polenta or grits on the bottom of a bowl (think of a blanket of warmth) then add some sautéed greens. Top it off with a poached egg and you’ve got a breakfast bowl. And for lunch, spiced chicken lime slaw, pickled radishes, crumbled cheese and warm tortillas. For dinner, a bowl of  brown rice topped off with oven-roasted salmon, roasted fennel and radicchio with a simple ginger-soy-vinegar sauce.

Bowls are highly adaptive and interactive. For instance, you can mix and match any of the elements from these bowls. The breakfast polenta and egg bowl would work well with brown rice instead of polenta and you