Sesame Radishes and Eggs

I have been cooking a lot of radishes for breakfast. I never would have bought them from the store in the past, let alone eaten them for breakfast! But we get such beautiful radishes from the CSA! How could you resist veggies like this?:

Stir-Fried Ginger-Sesame Bok Choy and Seitan

Tonight I decided to use the bok choy from my CSA and attempted to cook seitan for the first time. I have had this "wheat meat" before,  I just never cooked it. Anyway, I used the ginger-sesame dressing that Heidi Swanson uses in her Otsu recipe. This recipe is in Super Natural Cooking, a beautiful cookbook full of healthy recipes and a staple in my kitchen. The only thing I changed was the addition of garlic. This dish is filling and healthy.

Serves 4.
WW = 10 points per serving (with rice)

Miso Chili-garlic Summer Choi and Chicken

This stir-fry can be whipped up fast. I recommend cooking the couscous (or other grain) before beginning to cook the meat and veggies. Also, do all the chopping and make the sauce before you begin to stir-fry so everything can just be thrown together. It is an easy week night meal.

 
Serves 4.
WW = 9 points per serving (with couscous)
5 points per serving (without couscous)

Stir-Fried Steak with Lotus Root & Peas

Braised Yuba w/Steamed Bok Choy & Sushi Rice

 After going to Spa Castle recently, Marc and I ended up in Hong Kong Supermarket in Flushing. It was a winter wonderland of msg filled products along with random asian specialties. We came home with our arms full for a price way cheaper than many trips to Whole Foods. One of the things I bought was yuba or tofu skin. I had no idea what to do with this until tonight. If you have never had tofu skin before it is very interesting. It doesn't really have much of a taste and therefore will take on the flavor of whatever it is cooked in. It has a chewy texture which may turn some off but I think it has great consistency. I tried to follow Pham Fatale's recipe for it and added on to make it a meal.

Orange Salmon with Chili-Bok Choy

After my gluttonous breakfast, I needed something simple and healthy for dinner, so I decided to prepare fish. This is one of my favorite ways to prepare salmon. There is hardly any prep to this dish and it is delicious. Plus I got to use my new wok! This was another amazing wedding present from marc's family. He spent four hours the other day properly seasoning it! But if you don't have a wok you can certainly just prepare the bok choy in a saute pan.

winter leftover asian soup

This is great to make with leftover chicken or turkey. You can basically round up what you have in your fridge and throw everything together. That is the beauty of soup! (I actually made this with the turkey leftovers from thanksgiving...this is yet another post I am catching up on!)

Broiled Miso Tofu with Chili-Garlic Sesame Kale

This dish is very easy to make and is also delicious and light. It is similar to another post I did on broiled miso salmon. The recipe is adapted from Epicurious.

Serves 4-6.

Chicken Peanut Curry

I had a craving for curry and the drea was coming over for dinner. This was my first experience actually attempting to follow a recipe for chicken curry. I must say, it was a pretty good one. It was inspired from the following site.

It is relatively, easy. I will definitely make it again and next time might even try substituting half the chicken broth for coconut milk.

The blog takes its 2nd Trip!......Miso-glazed halibut (served with wasabi mashed potatoes and garlicky-spinach)

Japanese Pizza with Sauteed Fiddlehead Ferns

This "pizza" is more like an interesting dinner omlette. The recipe is adapted from my favorite site 101cookbooks. It makes two mini pizzas and can serve four people.

cold soba peanut noodles

Last night I went on a picnic with some lady friends. It was the first of the season, as all other attempts to picnic this spring were rained out. It turned out to be quite the feast. I didn't change the recipe that I used too much because it was nearly perfect. I have had other peanut noodles and the sauces weren't as good. This one really is a great way to feed a bunch of people at a picnic. I will definitely be making it to go to movies under the Brooklyn Bridge this summer!

coconut-basil perch

this dish is very easy and fast to make. it is a simple fish dish served with asparagus, although green beans or spinach would be a nice substitute.