What this isn’t: an authentic Tom Kah recipe. What this is: delicious, comparable in taste to traditional Tom Kah, takes 5 minutes to prep, and you likely already have the ingredients. I like to bulk up the soup with a ton of vegetables, which, again, isn’t the traditional way to make it, but hey! it’s my recipe.I make a batch of this and have dinner for the whole week. If needed, you can add tofu or shrimp (WILD CAUGHT) as a protein source.
After eating salmon for more days in a row than I feel comfortable sharing, I decided I could not eat one single bite more of that delicious little fish for at least a month and needed to shake things up. Let me add that I love salmon bc of how easy it is. I tried cooking halibut to no avail: the fire-alarm may have gone off, so I wasn’t particularly inclined to try again. As I racked my brain, I thought to myself…….what about tuna???
To avoid mincing words I’ll just go ahead and say it: this salad is fucking phenomenal and I’m not even a salad fan. Salad is always bland and unsatisfying to me, but that all changed when I was introduced to Sweetgreen. As suggested by the name, they’re a salad take-out restaurant that has become my go-to lunch break in NYC. I love their lentil avocado salad, and used it as nominal inspo for this recipe.
I posted this “recipe” on my Instagram story last week and got a lot of DM’s about it which is shocking to me because it’s so easy and I’ve been making it since I was 11. No joke. I don’t even really feel like it deserves a post, but it’s a good, easy staple. I like eating this for dinner because it’s packed with protein, fiber, and nutrients, and keeps me full until the next day. Salty sauteed broccoli tastes better than french fries to me imo. Here ya go. 10 minutes I SWEAR
I’ve never really bought into the notion of ‘comfort food’ as being savory food since I’m more of a sweets girl, but living on the East Coast and its subsequent -7 degree winters has thrown that proclivity right out the window. At this point I would rather rip my teeth out than make any type of frozen acai bowl so I’ve had to come up with other things to eat. Maybe it’s a blessing in disguise since I suppose eating 27 acai bowls per week is not necessarily a well rounded diet.
As I've mentioned in previous posts, I tend to find a recipe I like and then eat nothing but that for months at a time. Befittingly, I have been ordering a sushi burrito from down the street every day for both lunch and dinner and subsequently racking up a small fortune in my Takeout category on Mint (if you don't already use this I highly recommend).
