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Eat Dinner at Lunch…

February 15, 2021 By Eleanor Hoh Leave a Comment

Here’s a Chinese New Year Resolution you might consider…eating your main meal at lunch, and eat lighter at night!

This makes total sense and has so many positive health benefits from everything I’ve read. No matter what diet you’re on, you could benefit from eating your main meal at lunch.

As they say, Eat like a King for breakfast, a prince at lunch and pauper for dinner. Another says, Big Lunch, Small Dinner Plan.

1. Eating the main meal during lunch gives us more time to digest instead of going to bed with a full tummy.

2. For a blogger like myself, it gives me more time to videotape.

3. Lunchtime provides more natural light to videotape.

4. I’m not rushing home from my evening walk and feeling pressure with time constraints to prep and cook.

Anyone doing this? Share in comments if this swap works out better for your digestion or other reason?

Ha, ha, we’ve had pescatarian for last 3 days, not intentionally but just happened.

The usual stir fry process: hot wok, add oil (avocado or grape seed), add garlic & ginger. Cook vegetables first, take out, then use same steps for protein.

Vegetables were Baby Yu Choy or Choy Sum, the name I grew up calling them. Had some snow pea tips and cubed a baby Bella. This is the size between a bell pepper and mini sweet pepper.

Wild caught shrimp were so delicious and tasted of the ocean vs farm raised, what a difference.

Salmon skin came out juicy, golden and crispy, yay. Both were fried in my cast iron wok and Iwatani gas stove setup with just a sprinkle of Celtic sea salt. If you want crispy anything, dry off well with paper towels before frying.

I’ll keep you posted of our results.

Filed Under: blog, Diets, dinners, new year resolutions, seafood Tagged With: diet ideas, eat dinner at lunch, healthy habits, main meal at lunch, new year resolution

Italian in a Wok!

August 3, 2010 By Eleanor Hoh 4 Comments

Italian in a Wok!
THREE INGREDIENTS: chicken sausages, rapini, pasta.

This is such a simple, quick, easy dinner that I’m surprised I don’t make it more often! Italian in a Wok. YES, you heard right. It’s perfect for a hot summer night.

I know I’m constantly trying to encourage you to use your wok to cook everything, not just an Asian stir fry but really, it works so well because of its shape and wide opening so food don’t fall out.

So, here’s my Italian dinner:
Just THREE INGREDIENTS: chicken sausages, rapini and pasta.
Well, you can’t count garlic, ginger, chili flakes, dried tomatoes. Those are ingredients you always have, right? I prefer chicken sausage (Aidell’s or similar) which are not so fatty but so tasty, no MSG or tons of preservatives.

I use my cast iron wok and portable gas stove which sits on top of my electric coil stove. This is the BEST setup and works like MAGIC!

Start with boiling pasta in pot. Drain and keep some of the juice.

In your wok, boil water with drop of oil. Add your washed rapini with pinch of salt. It doesn’t take long, so give a taste and when it’s just tender, it’s done. Drain but keep some of the juice.

Yes, it’s fine to use liquid in your wok, once you start frying with oil, your patina will build back up immediately, don’t worry.

Dry your wok. Heat your wok on medium high, add little oil, add diced garlic and ginger, add chopped sausages.

Plate your pasta, add rapini with juice from rapini and pasta. Top with sausages, chopped dried tomatoes and sprinkles of chili flakes, dinner is ready!

This is such a tasty, easy, quick dish. It’s what being a Wok Star is all about…enjoy.

Filed Under: cast iron wok, dinners, Italian, sausages, wok

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