The cooing - it will break you everytime.

I enjoyed a huge green salad for lunch. And let's face it - the greens were just a convenient vehicle for lots of the Highly Addictive Miso Dressing.

What makes this dressing even better? I huge handful of chopped green onions.

And in my never ending quest to incorporate new and healthy things into my diet, this was included in my lunch:

Fishy goodness packed with Omega-3 Fatty Acids.

Which came in a huge amount of mustard sauce.

And I will be honest, this plate sat on top of the fridge for about an hour before I got up the courage to taste it.

Well, I didn't so much 'get the courage' as I was tortured into it. 

Even though I carefully washed off a fillet and gave it to Abby (aka the fish girl) she still camped out in front of the fridge and cooed non-stop to this plate of fish that was sitting on top of the fridge.


No joke. 

She cooed like the saddest Who in Whoville.

After an hour, this cooing broke me. I broke like that cop in the torture scene in Reservoir Dogs.

As Abby watched me with feral interest, I bravely brought a forkful of the herring to my mouth.

You know what? It wasn't half bad. It was meaty like Halibut and the mustard sauce really cut the fishy smell. 

These guys were much easier for me to handle than trying to eat sardines.

I think next time I will try eating them with crackers.

And I had a big bowl of these sweet globes.

 

Souffles and dressings

Today I made one of my favorite salad dressings. I don't make it that often because I have been known to lick the salad bowl clean to get up every last drop. 

I have also may have eaten all of this dressing in one sitting (yeah, I am not proud of it :-).

Salad with miso dressing.

Highly addictive miso dressing

Serves 6

1/4 cup of mellow red miso (you can also use white miso)
1/4 cup of water
1/4 cup of oil (I used 1/2 Udo's oil and 1/2 olive oil)
1 tsp. of raspberry honey
1 tsp. of champagne vinegar
a couple of drops of soy sauce

Combine all ingredients in a blender (or use an immersion blender) and process until smooth.

Enjoy!

As I was happily munching away on my salad, I remembered I had this can in the fridge. It had been in there a while so I knew I needed to either use it or toss it.

No recipe for this one since I just kept throwing things in the pot till I liked the result. But I can tell you the basic ingredients:

1/2 can of diced tomatoes
dried basil
dried oregano
a dash of salt
enough water to cover the tomatoes
garlic powder
onion powder
1/8 a cup of white rice
1 tsp. of honey
1 tsp. of Bulgarian yogurt


If you let the pot cook until the rice become mushy - then you can use the immersion blender and the rice acts like a cream substitute. So if you are looking for a non-dairy cream soup you can stop here (or use soy milk). 

I ended up adding in 1 tsp. of Bulgarian yogurt because I wanted the color just right.

And if you get overzealous with the immersion blender like I did, you end up with a soup that has a fluffy souffle-like texture. 

I topped mine with fresh chopped basil.