My winter garden is rapidly coming to an end as warmer weather and longer daylight hours of spring arrive. My Chinese cabbage grew very well this winter, I am pleased to say. I’m going to make one of my favorite salads — Ramen Chinese Cabbage Salad — with the last cuttings. This salad is easy to make and is very healthy, too. How nice to have a healthy vegetable which also tastes great. The salad has plenty of crunch which includes the “surprise” ingredient of dry ramen noodles.
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Almond-Crusted Fish from the North Sea Region of Germany
Let’s start the New Year on a healthy note. Here’s a tasty way to prepare and serve fish fillets. The fish fillets are topped with an almond crust and baked, then served over a bed of savoy cabbage, onions and dried fruit along with a tangy mustard sauce. The fish fillet with crunchy topping simply melts in your mouth! This is an easy way to live a heart healthy diet. With all of our fried food served in Louisiana, the recipe is a welcome change.
Stir Fry Bok Choy and Pineapple
Bok Choy: Will it grow in Louisiana? Every year I like to try to plant something new and small bok choy plants was something I noticed in the garden center. Why not try this vegetable, I mused. Well, my transplanted seedlings grew well–both in the fall and early spring–so I’ve got lots of bok choy to cook with. This is a cool weather plant, so time is running out to plant it in our gardens in March. Here is some that I planted last fall which lasted through the winter.