Raw Baby Bok Choy
To insure good health: Eat lightly, breathe deeply, live moderately, cultivate cheerfulness, and maintain an interest in life. ~William London
Mindful Eater, do you want to effortlessly get more greens into you and your loved ones? Of course you do. You want the radiant skin and vitamin-full antioxidant goodness of veggies. Well, I do too. But sometimes I feel too lazy to make them. This week I impressed myself with a supereasy new green: baby bok choy (well, new to me).
Bok choy is loaded with Vitamin C, folic acid, and also has calcium as well as other nutrients. It is winter-hardy, so it may be one of the local greens you can find in the winter months. I bought some for the first time last week since it was on sale (it's seasonal!).
Feeling lazy one evening, I had a batch of my neighbor Antoinette's delicious home made pesto for dinner and decided I should probably have some vegetables with that. I looked in my refrigerator and saw the baby bok choy. I had no idea how to make them, but I knew that anything could be sauteed. Feeling too lazy to chop, I just washed them, threw them in a pan and sauteed them with garlic. DELICIOUS. Sweet, fresh and crunchy. It doesn't get any easier, and clean up is minimal. Who knew? Well, someone did (but I didn't), and I had to share this supereasy discovery with you. Since they're so easy, I made them last night for some friends, and they loved them too!
Supereasy Baby Bok Choy
Serves 3-4
6-8 baby bok choy
2 cloves garlic
3 tablespoons canola oil or other oil to saute
- Carefully wash the bok choy.
- Remove skin from garlic and dice.
- Heat oil over medium high heat in frying pan. Add garlic and saute until golden.
- Throw in all the bok choy. Let it saute 1-2 minutes, then flip over. You are done when the bok choy turns a darker green, and the outside leaves are wilted.
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What I ate: Barbara's Bakery Shredded Oat Cereal, 2 lattes, zucchini and potato egg frittata, 1/3 apple, 1 glass orange juice, 2 green teas, 2 chocolate cookies, macadamia nuts, 12 oz. Helios Kefir, dried mango slices, 1 pear, 1 cup quinoa, steamed tofu + rainbow chard + shiitake mushrooms, soy sauce, sesame oil, 1 T. Udo's oil, 2 hot chocolates, 1.5 biscotti, New Chapter multivitamin, water
Exercise: Ran 8 miles (last week before NYC marathon)
