Category: Eating In

Eggplant Parmesan

If you know me, you’ll know that I have barely much time to cook. After a long day’s work and my usual end-of-day stop at the gym, I can *only* execute simple recipes. I have a rule: time I spend directly on dinner on weekdays has to be done within 30 minutes. Hard and fast. No but’s.

Eggplant Parmesan
Three ingredients only required!

Here’s one three ingredient meal that’s so yum: eggplant parmesan.

Ingredients

  • Eggplant or brinjal (3-4 for a whole casserole dish)
  • Extra Virgin (Cold Pressed) Olive Oil
  • Gluten-free marinara (tomato pasta) sauce
  • Parmesan cheese

Cut up a bunch of eggplant, locally known as brinjal. You can add zucchini, mushroom or any other vegetable you have on hand if you wish. Put in baking dish, e.g. a pyrex casserole one. Pour about 5 tablespoons of olive oil and a bottle of gluten-free pasta sauce atop. Check labels for gluten-free-ness of pasta sauces. Muir Glen makes a great organic, gluten-free kind. Layer with a bunch of parmesan cheese. Bake in oven for approximately 20 minutes or to your liking.

Done and done. And delicious. 🙂

Peace,

Daisy

Stir-Fried Veggies and Rice

I’ll start with the tried-and-true, easy-peasy stuff first. This is my go-to dish over and over.

Stir-fry Vegetables
No downside to this dish: easy, quick, tasty, healthy.

Ingredients

  • Brown rice
  • Roasted sesame oil
  • A variety of veggies–whatever you have on hand! Carrots, mushrooms, broccoli, kai lan, kangkung (morning glory), bok choy.

Brown rice in the rice cooker. A bunch of colourful veggies. Heat up some roasted sesame oil in the wok (we usually use a stainless steel wok unlike the photo which pictures a non-stick skillet—the wok is a fantastic cooking instrument!). Throw veggies in by likelihood to cook fast (I throw leafy greens in at the end after I turn off the stove). Lightly cook.  Turn off stove. Throw in a little gluten-free soy sauce. Ta-dahhhh!!!

Recipe Variation
Recipe Variation with San J Soy Sauce

San J makes an excellent organic, low sodium, gluten-free soy sauce, available on www.iherb.com (use discount code “LEQ993 for $10 off!). They deliver to Malaysia. There’s also Amazon.com. Second photo shows recipe variation with the soy sauce. Sometimes I also mix the rice into the pot, as shown below! One pot wonder! 🙂

Add the rice into the pot with the veggies and the soy sauce, and you have a One-Pot Wonder!
Add the rice into the pot with the veggies and the soy sauce, and you have a One-Pot Wonder!

 

Peace,

Daisy