The best thing this week has been making the Steamed Veggies and Tofu with Brown Rice from the "Skinny Bitch in the Kitch" cookbook. I know it sounds too bland to be allowed to exist, but there's a sauce that goes with it that you will crave and want to bathe in.
The genius thing about this recipe is that you can put some frozen veg in the steamer basket, slice some tofu and lay it on top and then make the sauce. Dinner will be ready in about 8 minutes! What about the brown rice, you say? Well, I always make a big batch of that on the weekend. You should, too. It's great for breakfast, you can put all kinds of crazy leftovers on it for lunch and then this dish is effortless.
What about pressing the tofu, you ask? Isn't it gross just steamed like that? That's where this awesome sauce comes in. It's tahini, Bragg's liquid aminos and a touch of sesame oil thinned with water. First, I'm crazy about Bragg's. I don't know why. It just tastes like health food circa 1974. Second, I don't follow the amounts that Skinny Bitch uses because they're too high in fat for my purposes.
This is something you should know about the Skinny Bitch cookbook. While it's great for transitioning and for that crazy craving that won't go away, it uses lots of processed foods and oils. But the book is a a totally fun read and the cookbook has some gems, like this recipe and the Green Goddess Pasta, which ranks right up there with comfort foods like fettucine alfredo and mac 'n' cheese as far as I'm concerned.
What I love about this recipe even more than the sauce, though, is that it's something easy to do with frozen vegetables that tastes great. Most of my old tricks for frozen vegetables involved butter. Swapping tahini (aka sesame butter) for dairy butter is a good thing. Check it out:
Butter - 1 tablespoon Tahini - 1 tablespoon
100 calories 85 calories
calories from fat 100 calories from fat 66
11 g fat 8 g fat
7 g saturated fat 1 g saturated fat
30 mg cholesterol 0 mg cholesterol
81 mg sodium 0 mg sodium
0 g carb 3 g carb
0 g fiber 1 g fiber
0 g sugar 0 g sugar
0 g protein 3 g protein
7 percent vitamin A 0 percent vitamin A
0 percent vitamin C 0 percent vitamin C
0 percent calcium 2 percent calcium
0 percent iron 5 percent iron
Notice how the tahini is more than just pure fat? Look it up yourself, and you'll see all the extra vitamins and minerals that tahini has that a pure fat food like butter doesn't have.
Yours in good health,
Summer
The genius thing about this recipe is that you can put some frozen veg in the steamer basket, slice some tofu and lay it on top and then make the sauce. Dinner will be ready in about 8 minutes! What about the brown rice, you say? Well, I always make a big batch of that on the weekend. You should, too. It's great for breakfast, you can put all kinds of crazy leftovers on it for lunch and then this dish is effortless.
What about pressing the tofu, you ask? Isn't it gross just steamed like that? That's where this awesome sauce comes in. It's tahini, Bragg's liquid aminos and a touch of sesame oil thinned with water. First, I'm crazy about Bragg's. I don't know why. It just tastes like health food circa 1974. Second, I don't follow the amounts that Skinny Bitch uses because they're too high in fat for my purposes.
This is something you should know about the Skinny Bitch cookbook. While it's great for transitioning and for that crazy craving that won't go away, it uses lots of processed foods and oils. But the book is a a totally fun read and the cookbook has some gems, like this recipe and the Green Goddess Pasta, which ranks right up there with comfort foods like fettucine alfredo and mac 'n' cheese as far as I'm concerned.
What I love about this recipe even more than the sauce, though, is that it's something easy to do with frozen vegetables that tastes great. Most of my old tricks for frozen vegetables involved butter. Swapping tahini (aka sesame butter) for dairy butter is a good thing. Check it out:
Butter - 1 tablespoon Tahini - 1 tablespoon
100 calories 85 calories
calories from fat 100 calories from fat 66
11 g fat 8 g fat
7 g saturated fat 1 g saturated fat
30 mg cholesterol 0 mg cholesterol
81 mg sodium 0 mg sodium
0 g carb 3 g carb
0 g fiber 1 g fiber
0 g sugar 0 g sugar
0 g protein 3 g protein
7 percent vitamin A 0 percent vitamin A
0 percent vitamin C 0 percent vitamin C
0 percent calcium 2 percent calcium
0 percent iron 5 percent iron
Notice how the tahini is more than just pure fat? Look it up yourself, and you'll see all the extra vitamins and minerals that tahini has that a pure fat food like butter doesn't have.
Yours in good health,
Summer
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