Cooking with Sandra

Miso Soup is the ultimate dieting tool.


Here is how you make it.

• Boil Water
• Put 1 Tablespoon of Miso Paste into a bowl
• Shake in about 1/2 Teaspoon of Bonito flakes into the bowl
• Cut up a little bit of scallion or onion and broccoli or carrot and put into bowl
• cut about 1 ounce of tofu into little bits and put in the bowl
• Pour the water into the bowl and stir

Now you have miso soup.

Seriously folks, don't buy those individual packets of miso soup mix unless you really cannot get a hold of miso paste.

 Broccoli and Baby Bok Choy

Love me some broccoli and baby bok choy.  Those little cabbages are my best friends.  Steam this together in a wok with some garlic, sesame oil and soy sauce.  Add a few drops of Sriracha for heat.  EAT!  This takes about 5 minutes and the only improvement is adding rice noodles for a carb.

Rice Noodles?

Yes my friends, this is the quick preparation carb that will make cooking so much faster.  Drop a handful of these into a bowl of warm water.  I have started putting warm water in my rice cooker, turning that on for more heat and putting the noodles in that.  In 5 minutes, pull the noodles out and throw them in what you're cooking for the last minute or so.  Awesome!

Now that I've got your motor running to make some ethnic food - I watch little cooking shows on YouTube.

Cooking with Dog and Manjula's Kitchen are my current favs.  In Cooking with Dog, this very nice Japanese woman cooks and her poodle translates into English.  Hilarious and informative!  In Manjula's Kitchen, a very nice Indian aunty cooks every Indian recipe you have ever heard of in small quantities that her son or husband eat immediately after taping her.  Yum!