You might also like these vegan soba noodles with mushrooms and tofu. Hereabouts there’s not much sense of the calendar turning other than the school thing. One week of having an eight-year-old around all day can get even a perfectly sane person off-kilter, and I am not that sane. So it is with hope and joy and many reasons that have nothing to do with the New Year that I await Jan. 2, the day winter break finally gives way to a few more weeks of school. Having Jay around for the holidays also means many, many demands for food that are fun to cook, but don’t exactly scale the “healthy” charts, especially during a time of year that already makes too many demands on the waistline. The “p” word is usually at the top of the list. “Mom, can we have pizza rolls today?”, “Mom, hasn’t it been a long time since you made a pizza?”, “Mom, can we have a picnic lunch today and order some pizza?” As you can see, there are many ways to ask the same question accompanied by an appealing squint of the eyes and a pout that’s impossible to say no to. But for the adults among us, the New Year also brings with it more of those inevitable pangs and twinges of guilt, especially when one looks in the mirror and discovers a little more of oneself. So this New Year’s there’s going to be more of the “my-body-is-a-temple” stuff and less pizza, or so the plan is. And while Jay is not going to find out about it before he sits down at the dinner table, I am not too worried he’ll complain. I plan to make it all taste good, you see. 😉 Check to get new recipe updates by email.
Besides, how can you go wrong with anything you can layer and serve up in a bowl. Long before bowls became a thing, Buddha and all, I’ve been a fan of eating just about everything out of a bowl. Here’s a fact about me you didn’t know: I find it hard to make my way around a plate. All that food spread out on a dish just makes me me want to squish it all together in the middle and spoon it into my mouth. My Sesame Soba Noodle Bowl with Spinach and Tofu is incredibly delicious, but what you’ll also love about it, as the new year dawns, is that it is extremely low fat and great for you. There’s only a tiny bit of fat here, in the sauteed spinach and in the sesame seeds, but then that’s fat you gotta love, right, because it’s good for you! The rest of it, the noodles, their sauce, and the tofu, are impeccably free of any added fats. But there is a ton of flavor in this soba noodle bowl. So much so, in fact, that I was scooping up those noodles with my chopsticks straight out of the pan and stuffing them into my mouth. You’ll likely be, ahem, far more elegant about it, but you get the idea? Besides, did you know that soba noodles are considered lucky new year’s eve food in Japan? Hope everyone’s looking forward to 2017! My resolution this year is to eat, cook, and share many, many more recipes on this blog than I did in 2016, when a number of things pulled me in every direction. What’s yours?
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