Sample Summer Recipe
1 Cold Soba--buckwheat—noodle with dipping sauce
2 Steamed Okra with sesame and soy sauce
3 Hiya Yakko cold Tofu
4 Edamame
Good meals for summer when you don’t want to cook in a heated
kitchen but eat healthy.
These are easy to cook and cool you down, yet very VERY nutritious!
Soba noodle, made of buckwheat, is full of protein, Vitamin B1, and
B2.Those vitamins are good to prevent heart disease and cancer.
Easy on digestion, it’s a perfect dish when you lose appetite in a hot
and hazy summer!
Okra, especially when it’s steamed, protect stomach from gastritis or
ulcer with the stickiness.
It’s also said to be good to prevent diabetes.
And helps protein absorb to the body system when eating with other
protein foods.
Tofu is an amazing food. Very good protein alternative. as well as
vitamin E, B1 and B2.
Those nutritions are said to lower blood pressure and cholesterol,
enhance blood circulation, prevent cancer, diabetes, and
osteoporosis.
It also improves brain function. It even keep your skin young and
beautiful : )
Edamame, immature soy bean, is also full of protein, Vitamin A, B1,
B2, C, calcium, and fiber. Other than the benefit of those Vitamins,
which prevents diabetes, arteriosclerosis, hypertension,
Edamame is said to be good to prevent hangover,----Japanese
people always have edamame with beer or sake!----, and helps
improve your memory! Also those protein helps you recharge
yourself after a long day.
Recipe1
1 Cold Soba noodle with dipping sauce
Boil some soba pasta into boiling water for 6 to 8 minutes.
Take them out and expose to cold water for a while till it cools down.
***you can get both noodle and sauce at a health food store or
Asian/Japanese stores.
Or make your own dipping sauce?
1/2 cup of *dashi, 1 tbs of mirin cooking sake, and add soy sauce
about ¼ to 1/3 cup to taste.
*dashi soup stock
---Put dried shitake and/or dried kombu kelp in water and leave it in
the fridge overnight.
2 Steamed Okra with sesame and soy sauce
Steam okra 4 or 5 for 1 person. diagonally sliced---just for a few
minutes till its tender and sticky.
Stir them with one table spoon of grinded sesame and 1 table spoon
of soy sauce.
3 Hiya Yakko, cold Tofu
Cut silken tofu, --about 2. 3 oz for 1 person,--.Put some grated
ginger, sesame---or bonito flake---, and add some soy sauce on top.
4 Edamame
Steam for just a few minutes.
Sprinkle a bit of salt.
Yes, that’s it!
Chew well, and enjoy this cool and healthy summer meal!
2 Steamed Okra with sesame and soy sauce
3 Hiya Yakko cold Tofu
4 Edamame
Good meals for summer when you don’t want to cook in a heated
kitchen but eat healthy.
These are easy to cook and cool you down, yet very VERY nutritious!
Soba noodle, made of buckwheat, is full of protein, Vitamin B1, and
B2.Those vitamins are good to prevent heart disease and cancer.
Easy on digestion, it’s a perfect dish when you lose appetite in a hot
and hazy summer!
Okra, especially when it’s steamed, protect stomach from gastritis or
ulcer with the stickiness.
It’s also said to be good to prevent diabetes.
And helps protein absorb to the body system when eating with other
protein foods.
Tofu is an amazing food. Very good protein alternative. as well as
vitamin E, B1 and B2.
Those nutritions are said to lower blood pressure and cholesterol,
enhance blood circulation, prevent cancer, diabetes, and
osteoporosis.
It also improves brain function. It even keep your skin young and
beautiful : )
Edamame, immature soy bean, is also full of protein, Vitamin A, B1,
B2, C, calcium, and fiber. Other than the benefit of those Vitamins,
which prevents diabetes, arteriosclerosis, hypertension,
Edamame is said to be good to prevent hangover,----Japanese
people always have edamame with beer or sake!----, and helps
improve your memory! Also those protein helps you recharge
yourself after a long day.
Recipe1
1 Cold Soba noodle with dipping sauce
Boil some soba pasta into boiling water for 6 to 8 minutes.
Take them out and expose to cold water for a while till it cools down.
***you can get both noodle and sauce at a health food store or
Asian/Japanese stores.
Or make your own dipping sauce?
1/2 cup of *dashi, 1 tbs of mirin cooking sake, and add soy sauce
about ¼ to 1/3 cup to taste.
*dashi soup stock
---Put dried shitake and/or dried kombu kelp in water and leave it in
the fridge overnight.
2 Steamed Okra with sesame and soy sauce
Steam okra 4 or 5 for 1 person. diagonally sliced---just for a few
minutes till its tender and sticky.
Stir them with one table spoon of grinded sesame and 1 table spoon
of soy sauce.
3 Hiya Yakko, cold Tofu
Cut silken tofu, --about 2. 3 oz for 1 person,--.Put some grated
ginger, sesame---or bonito flake---, and add some soy sauce on top.
4 Edamame
Steam for just a few minutes.
Sprinkle a bit of salt.
Yes, that’s it!
Chew well, and enjoy this cool and healthy summer meal!
Whole Life with Jin
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