Would you like Chicken or Cauliflower? Bento

The 30-day challenge of re-balancing the subject matter's eating habit completed yesterday.  (His diet consisted of 90% of meats and junk foods and 10% alcohol before the challenge.  The challenge helped him increase the consumption of veggies up to 33%.)  M, the subject matter, asked Maki to include meats and dairy to the bento boxes as the challenge is over.

Maki takes her pride in making vegetarian bento boxes.  What he did not realize was that his statement was equivalent to ordering Big Mac at the Sushi bar.

"OK. Fine."  This is a great opportunity to expand horizon of the Project.

 

Sudden death chicken:  Chicken extremely dried and burnt to its perfection.  Loaded with black pepper, Tabasco, and salt.  Enjoy the choking sensation.  The purchase of life insurance is required.

If you were him,

Do you prefer to eat this? 

or 

be punched with Cauliflower?

Which do you prefer? 

  

 

Sudden death and his friends

 

   

Noodle Workshop - Tan Men Noodle

"Tan Men" means a bowl of noodle with clear soup.

Simple & healthy,
No oil, 
No MSG, and
Low in calorie version of the recipe...  The flavor of veggies is packed in the noodle bowl.

Total calorie is approx. under 400 cal.

Ingredients:
1 bowl of soup stock.
1 clove of garlic, sliced
Vegetable in your fridge which has sweet flavor.  As much as you want.  (e.g. carrot, onion, bok choy, bean sprouts, cabbage, nappa, shitake mushroom.)
1 noodle, non-fried. > http://greenoodles.com/
Sea salt, as salty as you like
2 table spoon sake
White pepper

Procedure:
1.  In the pot, pour a little bit of soup stock.  Throw in garlic.  Then, throw in all vegetables starting from the ones with hard texture (e.g. carrots, onion).
2. Once veggies are softened, pour rest of the soup, and add sea salt and sake into the pot.
3. Warm up the noodle bowl.
4. Cook (boil) a noodle in another pot.  Once done, drain it well, and put it in the noodle bowl.  Pour the vegetables and soup on top of it.
5. Add white pepper.

Optional:
Add chopped green onion, cilantro, sesame seeds, sesame oil, etc. on the top of the noodle.  The flavor is so simple, you can play with it as much as you like.

Enjoy!

Day 31 After 30 days. The Final Review.

  1. Yuca: boiled.

2. Mushroom: stir-fried with mustard seeds and fuji apple.

3. Brown rice, grains & lentils

www.soofoo.com 

4. Bok Choy: Stir-fried leaf.  Boiled roots.

5. Fuji apple: Simmered with cinnamon, sake, green pepper. 

Weight:  172.5 lbs (-0.3 lbs) 

The subject matter confessed that last night he consumed:

4 pints of beer

Shots

Nachos

Basil fried rice with basil

.....

The final review by the project: 

• Physical aspect: (Level 3 = Met Expectations) It is in fact true that the weight loss was limited to -0.3 lbs.  Considering the consumption of alcohol and junk foods on a daily basis - gigante -, he still managed to keep his weight off. 
• Mental aspect:: (Level 4 = Exceeded Expectation) The subject has:
• Lost fear of interactions and commitment to veggies.
• Learned a complicated task such as cleaning up the bento boxes and re-assembling.

• Level 2 = Needs Improvement: The Project recommends the subject improves the following:
• Limit the consumption of junk foods and alcohol in the evening.
• Learn that MSG was made to replicate natural flavor - Umami.  Not the opposite.
• Learn the vocabulary to express flavors other than "good", "strong", and "no flavor."    

Have a nice day!

Day 30 Sculpture Workshop Bento - Mental Exercise

Weight: 172.5 lbs (-0.3 lbs)

Back from Montreal. Still thinking of the unforgettable dish from the Barroco restaurant.

www.barocco.ca

Rich protein flavor of scallop and Foie Gras was a reminder of "horizontal" imagery. Soothing flavor of Citrus juices on top of it represented "vertial" imagery.

Have you had an experience that the food had you attend the sculpture work shop in you mind?

Chick pea cake, tangerine flavor.

Horizontal element: mashed chick pea, caramelized onion, and Indian bread.

Vertical element: tangerine orange, red peppers, and caper.

Horizontal element: Veggie puree.

Vertical element: Caper and hot peppers

Horizontal element: romaine lettuce, balsamic vinaigrette, and olive oil.

Vertical element: Hot pepper and tangerine orange.

The Project created this paste in her/his mind on the train to Montreal. Enjoy it with leftover bread. Here is a recipe.

Ingredients:

Horizontal elements:

1 tbsp white miso

2 tbsp sake kasu or drained tofu

1/2 tbsp olive oil

A vertical element:

1/2 tbsp chopped ginger

Respectfully, consolidate horizontal and vertical elements.

Day 29 Recession Special Continues - Recession Soba Noodle and Congee

Weight: 172.0 lbs (- 0.8 lbs)

A veggie coffin in the project's freezer which keeps abandoned veggies skins, roots, and stems. Let's revive them - Please be soup stock! An aging tangerine orange with skin on joined them for its cause.

Let's see how they draw their own conclusion.

Sunday brunch - Recession special soba noodle!

A dipping sauce for the recession soba: Re-cycle soup from from Day 28. Add chopped cilantro. Bean sprouts in the soup nicely tender and obedient by now.

Simply cheap soba noodle - price reduced at the Japanese grocery

Condiments for Soba - to be added to the soba dipping sauce as you wish: "Employ aging work force" and "A stimulus package" from Day 28. Pieces of Cilantro leave and Cilantro roots with ginger. Please enjoy the liberty of enjoying different flavors.

How to eat this?: dip the soba noodle in the dipping sauce. Add the condiments as necessary to enjoy the different flavors. It's not that difficult.

If there is leftover dipping sauce, please use it to make rice risotto. All the flavors from the condiments come together to make this risotto heavenly.

Day 28 Recession Special! 99 cents Bean Sprouts

Weight: $170.8 lbs (-2.0 bls)

A bag of bean sprouts for 99 cents...what would you do with 99 cents?

How about facial? Aromatherapy with steams from bean sprouts?

Try what you can do with 99 cents bean sprouts for the economic recovery.

Recession rice: Boil bean sprouts. Use the same water used for boiling the sprouts to cook brown rice. Add a bit of soy sauce, sake, and your creative soup and cook. Once the rice is cooked, mix boiled sprouts.

Employ aging work force: Boiled Bok choy and Chinese veggies at their 50's - defrosted from the freezer.

A stimulus package: Kick-ass dipping sauce for the rice and green veggies: Sesame oil, grounded sesame seeds, sliced shallots, green hot pepper, green onion, red pepper, sake. (Try pairing with 99 cents Tofu.)

Reduce redundancy: In the same pan used for the stimulus package, stir-fly bean sprouts. Balsamic vinaigrette and black pepper.

Re-cycle: Veggie soup stock with bean sprouts. Re-cycle onion oil - heat up at the max heat and pour into the soup prior to serving. Enjoy the sizzling sound and its aroma.

What is your cost-cutting strategy in the kitchen? Can you share your idea with the Project?

A Special Report on Montreal by the Fisher Woman.

http://www.barroco.ca/

Barroco restaurant in montreal...

Overpriced dinner with 14% tax and tip. Yes, It's canada. But trully inspired by their use of spices, oil, and sauce!

Is this modern Canadian-French? Maki has not tried bistro for a long time. Their complexity and approach ignited her curiosity.

!!!!!!

Butter mixed with lemon, paprika, and cumin powder. We can make this easily at home. Can we? Very nice.

 

Scallop and foie gras risotto. Rich and dense flavor was spiked by orange and grape fruit juice. Flavors were well structured with some nice uncertainty.

A Salmon grilled with seasonal veggies topped with ??? Sauce. This sauce - a full of "umami." Brussels sprout and cauliflower were nicely grilled gave chunky and moist texture to the dish Crispy fried fish tail was smelly - the only disappointment.