Monday, August 3, 2015

For the love of Pho

Okay, so I've hardly been doing anything in the kitchen, but if I do anything, lately I've been making pho, it's my all new favorite go to dish.

Today as an overview:

Breakfast: Mesa Sunrise with raisins (nature's path organic) cereal and vega protein smoothie
I was out of almond milk, so I used one scoop of vega vanilla flavor protein smoothie with about 8oz of water, stirred thoroughly and dumped into a bowl of gluten free corn, quinoa, amaranth flake type things -- brand listed above, available at natural grocer.

Lunch: Herb's Garlic Sprouted Bagels made by Silver Hills Sprouted Bakery.
1 bagel with cream cheese (daiya chive and onion cream cheese style spread)
and 2 fishless filets (by gardein-- these things are amazing by the way) -- I would have put it on my bagel, but I was too hungry to wait for the fish to cook lol.

Dinner:
hearty pho :)

4-5 cups of water
1/2 package of brown rice noodles (I use Annie Chun's 8oz, so 4oz for this recipe)
2 veggie no salt bouillon cubes
1/2 tsp salt
1 head of broccolini chopped
1 package of shiitake mushrooms
2 tsp shoyu
1 tbsp vegan butter
juice of 1/2 lime
4 small carrots chopped
1/4 cup lima beans
1 garlic scape chopped
2 tbsp chopped cilantro
red chili flakes (optional)
additional herbs or garlic powder (optional)

Boil the water, add the carrots, broccolini, shiitake, scapes, bouillon cubes, salt, butter, shoyu and lima beans. After about 5 minutes add the noodles simmer for 2 minutes until noodles are done.

Turn off the heat, add the lime juice, cilantro

you got yourself a super healthy meal in about 10-15 minutes, assuming you can chop veggies quickly :)