A Spoon for Your Salad?

You know you got a good salad when you have to eat it with a spoon...

The selection of ingredients in this salad below is the result of trying to use up all my left-over produce from the top of this week's grocery shopping run (I do not tolerate food-wasting).
Nevertheless, the finished product was still superb!

 The Left-Over Produce Sesame Spinach Salad

ingredients:
baby spinach
broccoli florets
tomatoes
sliced mushrooms
thinly sliced red onion
fried minced garlic
shredded mozzarella cheese
Asian sesame dressing

Don't be discouraged by the simplicity or 'boring' (if you will) facade of this recipe.
I must confess that the salad was a little bland before I added the shredded mozzarella and fried minced garlic components to it. The cheese I luckily had as left-overs from my pizza-making dinner party with Amber on Halloween. And the garlic- well, the garlic factor is because I am Filipino and that's what we do. We add garlic to everything.

Before combining ingredients into a bowl, mince the garlic and deep fry in a pan on medium to low heat. The key here is patience. You want the garlic to fry crispy, not stale and hard.
Fry until golden brown.
Combine and toss spinach, mushrooms, red onion, broccoli, tomatoes, and sesame dressing in a bowl.

Top with fried minced garlic and shredded mozzarella.

There.

A guilt-free (and cost-free) meal.

Eat well.

Miss Sabado

Lunch at Work

Lunch is a sticky subject.
If you sit at a desk all day long like me, you never want to eat too much or else you'll crash halfway through.
And you never want to eat too little otherwise you'll zero in on other people's snacks and junk food the rest of the day.

Below is an all-time favorite:

SW Fiesta Plate (Without the Calories) 

Ingredients:

-black beans

-fresh yellow or white corn

-tomatoes

-avocado

-broccoli

If you're macrobiotic like me, you'll opt for the package of black beans that you'd need to manually cook overnight. In that case, follow cooking directions on the package provided. 

If not, then empty one can of black beans into a pot and simmer.

Boil corn, covered, in another pot. Again, do not overcook. Corn tastes much sweeter and maintains its crisp when it's not overcooked. Boil for only 3-4 minutes.

Combine black beans, cut corn, diced tomatoes, broccoli, and avocado chunks on a plate. Dip, mix at will or eat a la carte.

Good hot or cold.

This dish is low in calorie, very filling, and quite nutritious. Great for sustaining energy throughout your day.

Eat well.

Miss Sabado