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May
Salads and Soups - Miso Horny Soup
Seriously, most of us consider salad as nothing
more than a vehicle for dressing. I love the fact
that everyone thinks salads are healthy and then
they load up on the dressing. Then, the next thing
that happens is some lady from Jenny Craig taps you
on the shoulder and says, ‘Did you know that
your salad has as many calories as an ice cream
sundae?’ Really? Well heck, doesn’t this
mean that you might as well have a sundae before
dinner? No, you really can’t do that, as the
date is already fairly wary of a guy who says he
can cook. In fact, most are expecting you to offer
a choice of either a Salisbury steak TV dinner or a
potpie. Start it correctly with the soup or salad.
Do be cautious, as too often the salad made is huge
and (with our clean the plate mentality) no room is
left for dessert.
Description:
This is a nifty little soup that will add that
Asian flair or the ‘Exotic’ to the meal.
It is almost as good as having Tia Carrera serve
you…okay, no it isn’t and besides, if Tia
Carrera were to serve you, you wouldn’t want
your date there and neither would I. But, this is
the soup that has the cloudy stuff floating in it
and what you get when you go to a Japanese or
Chinese restaurant . A word of caution, you might
not be able to find some of these ingredients at
your local store unless you live in Japan.
If you have sun-dried tomatoes, you can toss a
few of these in as well. Another swift idea is to
go to a store and see what sorta’ flavors they
have for their humus. This is always a cool sense
of inspiration on how to further personalize your
humus.
Ingredients:
1. 3 cups of water
2. 2 Tbsp of Miso, you want the red stuff as it is
salty, the white stuff is sweet and being sweet is
your date’s department
3. 3 chopped scallions
4. 1 oz of firm tofu that is chopped into cubes
that are half the size of dice
5. ½ sheet of sushi wrapping, this is
seaweed
Directions:
Heat the water, it does not have to boil but it
has to be pretty warm. While it heats up, cut the
scallions into nice thin slices. Remember, the
greater the surface area of an ingredient, the more
flavor it will have. Okay, there you are with that.
Now, when the water is warm, toss in the Miso
paste. You can try library paste as we all used to
eat that when we were kids, but Miso is probably
better for us. Stir that around so that it is
totally mixed.
While the stuff is simmering, either rip or cut
the seaweed into strips no bigger than ½”
x 2” and throw them in. You can use scissors
for this. Stir them in and while stirring,
remember, ‘wax on, wax off’ to get the
correct rhythm and motion. It’s an art. Now
cut the firm tofu into those ½ dice size
chunks and throw them in. When you guesstimate that
the tofu chunks are warm, you are done baby!
Serving:
This stuff has to be served in bowls that are
too small for anything else but probably one scoop
of ice cream. There, bring it out and if you are
daring, bring out chopsticks so you and your date
can really be authentic while you try to nab one of
those bottom dwelling tofu chunks.
©2008, by Ron
DesMarais
Related Books
Ron
DesMarais started life in Charlottesville, VA and
has lived in several parts of the United States.
When people hear the number of times he has moved,
the question invariably arises as to whether or not
he was an ‘Army Brat.’ There is only a
half-truth there and that is found by dropping
‘Army’; unless, you consider ‘Army
of Darkness.’ After moving with his parents
for several years, Ron continued his nomadic ways,
which were spurred by his mother’s finding out
where he currently lived. In the process of
changing dwellings and never getting rental
deposits back (which he claims were never his
fault), Ron’s financial status required that
he start cooking for himself, as he could not
afford eating out. This resulted in his quickly
getting bored with Top Ramen and deciding to get
creative in the kitchen. Soon, a list of recipes
with a limited number of inexpensive ingredients
started coming together. What really bolstered the
creation of his book Cavemen
in the Kitchen, and the
writing of it as not just a cookbook but a
‘dating aid’ as well was when Ron ended
up at a date’s house after a financially
draining evening out. As both were hungry but Ron
too broke and both too tired to go out somewhere,
Ron dug through her cabinets, found some items to
work with and based on a recipe he had created
earlier, he created a meal for both. She loved it
and the results of the meal were amazing in ways
those under 18 should not hear about. From that
point, dates for Ron consisted of cooking dinner,
either at his house or the date’s house, and
afterwards, either watching a video or doing
something else. Click here
to order a copy of the book (Contains adult
content.)
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