Chard and Bok Choy Stir Fry with Quinoa

Gather up the following ingredients:

3 Large Red Chard Leaves

1 Head/Bunch Baby Bok Choy

2 Stalks of Celery

4 Mini Bell Peppers

1 Carrot

1/2 Cup Cooked Quinoa

Gather your ingredients and wash all your greens and vegetables in cold water.

Next slice the carrots thinly:

Put them aside in a bowl

Next chop up the mini peppers into bite size pieces:

Put them aside with the carrots.

Next slice the celery:

Add them to the bowl with the carrots and mini peppers.

Next chop up the baby bok choy.  I prefer just the leaves but if you like the crunchy part please feel free to chop it up too:

Add this to a separate bowl from the crispier veggies.

Next chop up the Red Chard:

Add this to the bowl with just the Bok Choy in it.

Now put a large frying pan on the stove and spray with non-stick cooking spray.  Allow to warm up for about 20 seconds.  I usually have the heat on medium.  Add the bowl of crispy veggies and begin stirring.

Next you will add 1/2 cup of water:

Keep stirring until veggies are slightly softened.  Then add another 1/2 cup water if needed and any spices or seasoning you wish for your meal.  I added a little bit of cinnamon and ginger.

Once the carrots are to your preferred softness and the celery is clear add the greens to your stir fry.  If needed add an additional 1/4-1/2 cup water to facilitate the wilting of your greens:

When your greens are completely wilted spread out a thin layer of 1/2 a cup of cooked Quinoa on a plate:

Put the stir fry on top and enjoy!

316 Calories

62 g Carbs

3 g Fat

16 g Protein

15 g Sugar

836 mg Sodium

Summer Squash Stir Fry

In this stir fry you gather the following ingredients, one summer squash, broccoli, two stalks of celery, one quarter of a green pepper,  two leaves of collard greens, brown rice and seasoning.

First wash the vegetables then slice them or cut them up depending on the vegetable.  In this case of these vegetables I put everything but the collard greens in the pan and stir fried them in olive oil.  I cooked them until they were softened and then added the collard greens.  Further stir frying  until the collard greens were limp.  Then I added the pre cooked rice to warm it up and have it  soak up the flavors in the pan from cooking the vegetables.  In this batch I also added a little bit of soy sauce for a different flavor.  You can add whatever you want.

Broccoli Stir Fry

This is a fairly simple stir fry.  You take some olive oil maybe a teaspoon to a tablespoon and add it to the pan.  Then you take about 6-8 Broccoli flowerettes and begin stir frying.  Slice up two celery stalks and add them.  Once the celery is clear and the broccoli is starting to get brown on the edges and soft add boc choy.  Stir Fry until the boc choy is soft then add pre cooked rice and stir fry til they are all cooked.  Then enjoy the various flavors.

Summer's Evil devils

The summer comes and with it brings warm and sweltering weather.  Perfect and beautiful weather for going out and doing things.  However, Its also great weather for bugs to breed and go about their business.  This is also their perfect opportunity to take over your pantry.  Moths are the subject of this blog. in particular the ones that live in grains.

When you buy a package of whole grain rice you are hoping to enjoy it at some time.  Most people do not eat all the rice at once.  Try as they may rice harvesters are not able to control the moths that come and lay their eggs on the rice.  So it will behoove you to find a way to prevent it.  The best way is to put your grains in the refrigerator to prevent optimum warm dry dark conditions for egg hatching.  But check the bag before you do because once in a while when its hot like this the grains develop on the way to the store cause they do not properly keep them cool.  If they come with larva bring it back to the store.

Now if you do end up with larva and its not overly infested and cannot afford to purchase more rice you can do something about it if your willing.  Take a large plate solid in color and shallow.  Pour out a single rice layer thick on the plate.  Swirl the rice about and then look for moving rice.  Use a spoon to scoop it up and keep doing this until all the wiggly rice is gone.  You can toss them into a water glass they drown in water.  You then put the larva free rice in a fresh baggy.  Keep doing this until you have finished going through all the rice.  Then you can leave the bag for an hour or so to see if any more larva show up by climbing the bag.    Then you preheat your oven for  like 450 degrees then you put all the rice on a cookie sheet and then bake it for 5-10 min.  You will have very toasted rice but any larva that were left will be dried and dead.  Then you put them in a baggie and then the bag goes into the fridge.

I hope this helps and I feel like someone has to talk about these gross subjects cause we all have then happen.