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Vegetarian - Chasoba (Japanese green tea noodle) and mushroom

authorLilian | February 13, 2008

In order to survive eating only vegetables and not taking any meats or seafoods, I have to get myself all kinds of vegetables and stuffs to amuse myself. Otherwise it gets boring. First, upon the advice of organicsamm, I bought some organic flaxseed and black sesame. I tried to grind the flaxseed but I failed. Samm told me black sesame seeds taste better if fried but it can be eaten raw too. She also told me if I cannot grind the flaxseed, I can chew them as the flaxseed oil is inside those brown shells.

chasoba and mushrooms

I also bought some expensive mushrooms. I have forgotten the name of the huge one. I love mushrooms and only wish they are not so darn expensive. The mushrooms are from Holland and labelled organic. Other than that, I got myself a packet of organic Japanese green tea noodle or chasoba.

japanese chasoba with mushrooms

I chopped some garlic and fry with a little olive oil. Boil the chasoba to make it soft and I also boiled the mushrooms to make it cook faster. Then, I dump the noodle and mushroom into the garlic and olive oil. The taste was too bland so I added some Japanese shoyu or is it soya sauce? Still too bland. So, I pour in some Chinese cooking wine. Still too bland. Hehehe. Then, I added a few dash of Thai fish sauce. Now…that’s more like it. International flavour.

japanese chasoba with mushrooms

Since I got two packets of black sesame and flaxseeds, I sprinkle them on the fried Japanase Chasoba and tadaaa….all green and nice.

Oh ya, as I have some pea sprouts or doumiao, I added some too. Do you know that doumiao can be eaten raw? The next time you want to fry noodle or cook instant noodle, just dump some pea sprouts into it for the added bite and fibre.

Once again…I survive another meal of vegetarian foods. Pleasant to the eyes and tastes healthy.

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Vegetarian - Fried noodles with colourful vegetables

authorLilian | February 12, 2008

I bought some placemats from Reject Shop the other day. Each costs only RM1.90. Now, I realised I shouldn’t choose a stripe one because it is too distracting and grabbed the attention from my foods. I notice most food photographs have placemats instead of the table top. Frankly, I am sick of looking at the marble top of my dining table in every single food photos I took. The brownish blotches look ugly. Maybe I should get a few more placemats which are plain.

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It is depressing cooking for one because there is always too much foods left. So, I boiled a packet of instant noodles and stir fry it with my left over vegetables from last night dinner.

I use 1/3 of the instant curry noodle flavour, splashed some Thai chillies sauce and the leftover vegetables already have tomato ketchup in it.

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So, I got this very delicious instant noodle fried with an egg, red capsicum which is so sweet, brocolli and crunchy celery.

vegetarian noodle

I got a big plate of noodle with lots of crunchy vegetables and it was my breakfast and lunch. Burp.

Try it next time. Just blanch the noodle or boil some pasta. Dunk in your cut vegetables for a quick boil to cook them. Take them out of the water and leave aside. Smash some garlic and add a little olive oil to stir fry. Add the noodle and vegetables. Flavour them with whatever you fancy. Adding tomato ketchup and chillies sauce is a sure winner. Just add the flavourings sparingly until you get the flavour you like.

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