Tag Archives: Qing Dan

Simple Miso Soup

I felt the first signs of a cold coming on during my commute home this evening,  so while sitting on the subway, I thought about cooking this healthy, healing miso soup.   Miso paste is a great ingredient to keep in the fridge, it keeps for months.  It is made by fermenting soybeans with salt and [...]
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Clean Cooking: Steamed Veggies, Whole Grains & Tofu

Tonight was clean cooking night at our house. There’s really nothing like some simply steamed vegetables with a whole grain to make you feel great from the inside out. It couldn’t be easier to make–even if you have no/few fresh veggies on hand. Our fridge is under-stocked right now and I would usually use some [...]
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Stir-Fry

Coming back from a long weekend away, I wanted to make something quick and easy when we got home Sunday night. I also wanted to use up what ingredients were on their way out…Stir-frys serve this purpose well because you can put almost anything in them, plus they are super-fast (I think the longest part [...]
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Clean food night

We try to eat macro once a week…Tonight was it… Quinoa, roast beets and steamed broccoli, carrots, red onion and tofu. The sauce was also really simple…Black bean paste, rice wine vinegar, soy sauce and sesame oil.
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Greetings from a Kitchen in Queens!

After our trip to ‘H-Mart‘ on Northern Blvd in Great Neck, we got some wonderful purple kale fitting of a nice Macrobiotic Plate. The Chinese way of healthy cooking simply cooks the food in order to help the body’s digestion start the process of breaking down nutrient-rich vegetables. Macrobiotic cooking focuses on steamed hearty seasonal [...]
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