Not exact matches
Sometimes we all just want something amazingly quick and easy for dinner,
at this point I often go straight for avocado and hummus on toast, which is amazing, but sometimes it's nice to spend an extra few minutes in the kitchen and whip up something amazing like this beautiful veggie stir fry with a creamy tahini and tamari sauce and a mountain of delicious
buckwheat noodles.
I used
buckwheat soba
noodles instead, added avocado
at the end and also added a few more herbs in there (Oregano, Thyme) and used just a hint of marble cheese since I was out of the regular parm.
These
noodles are made out of
at least 50 % healthy ingredients (
buckwheat flour is listed first on the package before wheat, therefore there should be more
buckwheat than wheat in the
noodles).
The thing to order
at Abri Soba is, as you'd guess, soba, served hot in a deep dashi or cold, the
buckwheat noodles tousled on a bamboo mat to be dipped into soy and scallion.
Finally, the discovery of
buckwheat noodles is the final piece of my healthy lunch
at work puzzle that I've been trying to solve for years.
At the time, I had no idea that
buckwheat, the main ingredient of soba
noodles, was a good source of nutrients like manganese, lean protein, carbohydrates and thiamine.
Look
at how the
buckwheat noodles hang like the sexy beast that it is.
My first experience with
buckwheat noodles was
at a Chinese restaurant in Toronto.
It amounts to a kind of
Noodle Theory: Throw enough different kinds of noodles at a wall long enough and eventually one will stick, no matter whether the noodle is buckwheat or soba or the wall is cement or wood pa
Noodle Theory: Throw enough different kinds of
noodles at a wall long enough and eventually one will stick, no matter whether the
noodle is buckwheat or soba or the wall is cement or wood pa
noodle is
buckwheat or soba or the wall is cement or wood paneled.
During my stay in Iwate I participated in a traditional tea ceremony, practiced Zen meditation, tried my hand
at origami and calligraphy, and came in third in a wanko soba
noodle eating competition the object of which was to eat as many plates of
buckwheat noodles in 30 minutes as you can.