Macro Super Bowl

[Mags]

OK. I don't actually watch the game, but I do enjoy how much my husband and friends and family do (Go Giants). And it is a fun occasion to cook for other people. Everyone is always saying to me "Macrobiotics is so strict. I can't do that." It's really not that way at all. So here is my super bowl menu that I am cooking as I write for my friends and family. Remember all ingredients are organic and whole grain.

Vegetable Soup
this is not your grandma's vegetable soup. It is full of all sorts of wonderful organic vegetables and then some sea vegetables such as kombu and wakame (no one notices them - but they thicken the stock and lend flavor and add wonderful minerals). Also some shredded burdock to give it some nice yang for the winter cold. A few drops of dandelion root extract will add to the stock and really help keep out the cold. This is a yang soup for the yin weather so I stay away from the summer vegs and use turnips and carrots and parsnips and go very light on the peas and such. Just add some for color and taste and balance. At the end I will add some brown rice or whole grain pasta - whatever. Believe me, it will be very good.

Quesidillas
Don't even know if I spelled that right. My filling will be some brocolli and onions sauteed with some hot peppers. Then some baked almost blackened thinly sliced tofu done in a toaster oven with some cayenne pepper and shoyu sprinkled on it. YUM. Make the quesidillas with some soy cheese.

Spicy Bean Side for the Quesidilla
I don't eat tomato so don't do salsa (deadly nightshades and all that). So as a side for the quesa whatevers I am making a spicy little bean thing. Haven't done it yet, but it will go like this. Organic white beans with cilantro, onions, jalapenos or something hot, some parsley for freshness, some wonderful black olives - I'll go from there and see what else.

Maybe a side of brown rice also - always a little brown rice around.

It'a getting late. I've got to go cook. Macrobiotics can be fun. Happy super bowl everyone!!!!

[wonderworld]

Way cool Mags. Thanks. I am vey bored of the veggie soup I always make - you've given me some new ingredients and a healthy way to mix it up! Sweet!
ww xx

[lorisunshine]

Hi there Mags,
I am sport challenged. I know that there may be a touchdown in the third inning or is it a kick off on third base?

No, I don't watch the superbowl either or anything else that remotely smells like sport with the singular exception of all equestrian events.

However, for some reason I always get to cook the godd.... meal. Let me juxtapose your perfectly heathy, delicious nouvelle cuisine with my oldfashioned artery clogging old world tummy filler.

Vegetable soup with cabbage, daicon, onions, garlic, carrots and a heap of fresh parsley.

Slow roasted deboned shoulder of porc stuffed with garlic cloves.

Wild mushroom sauce.

Bavarian Potatoe dumplings and a bathtub of Boston Bib.

Absolutely no desert. I'm done and oh, my God, I ate too much.

Have a good game all you football fans.
Lori