April 28, 2012
Blogging Naturally, entry # 11
Mammas & Pappas Cooking 101
As promised, I want to share a
few things that I have learned at the Natural Gourmet Institute of Health &
Culinary Arts and how I have infused (great word, don’t you think?) them into
my own cooking for my family meals. I
like to call my style “Sensible Organic Cooking on a Dime”.
The following recipe was
developed with all of the Mammas & Pappas in mind who have limited time to
cook healthy meals for their little cubs!
I have incorporated store bought ingredients indicated by an * that if
you have the time and energy (Bless You!) you can make yourself ahead of time
to use. Please contact me if you would
like the recipes for any of those.
It is very important to me as the
Head Chef in my home that I exert the maximum effort to cook health supportive
meals that won’t break Pappas piggy bank!
So, when I buy 2 organic chickens for $20 you know I have learned ways
to stretch out their yield into 3 meals for my family of 5! I won’t get into that here for now. I will just address how to use the leftover
chicken from whatever cooking method you used and add to the following
delicious (forgive me for saying so myself!) healthy soup.
So I combined Grandma’s chicken
soup with a garlic- miso soup and added pasta and away we go! What did you say? Why is this soup so healthy? I am so glad you asked that! Short version, Grandma’s chicken stock is
chock full of nutrients, vitamins & minerals that comes from the bones of
the chicken and the vegetables (usually celery, carrots and onions) add to the
nutritional value as well. Miso is made
from fermenting rice, barley and/or soybeans, with salt and kojikin
(fungus). Most Miso’s are made from
soy. However, you can go gluten and soy
free by using a chickpea miso and brown rice pasta like that shown below. So my friends who must be soy or gluten free
have no fear…just Google where you can order or buy direct chickpea miso. Fermented foods have been known to be health
supportive by many cultures for thousands of years. Miso is high in Vitamins B12, K and protein. Many believe that Miso has
the ability to detoxify the body of heavy metals and radiation caused by
numerous sources such as x-ray’s. Garlic
too has a long history of cultures using it for various remedies and use in
daily consumption for overall health.
Aside from the great taste….o.k. downside is breath, but no one said you
had to go on a first date after eating this soup!......Garlic is an antifungal
and antibiotic. So, slurp away (no
really that is a compliment in other cultures!) and enjoy Cindy D’s “Chicken
Garlic Miso Soup”!
Hey, what about us Vegan’s and
Vegetarian’s? Oh yeah, I respect
that. Please substitute the chicken
stock with vegetable stock and perhaps throw in either sautéed tofu or tempeh
in place of the leftover chicken.
Naturally Respectful,
Cindy D.
Cindy D’s Chicken Garlic Miso Soup
Procedure:
* Here are some easy peasy time
saver options and where to buy:
(Kirkland ’s Organic Chicken Stock* Trader
Joe’s Organic Brown Rice Pasta* Frozen Organic Vegetables, available in most
stores.)
