Summer BBQ season is here. I usually leave the meat grilling to my husband, and focus on side dishes. This baby bok choy salad would be a great side with almost any main course.
I was very excited to see baby bok choy in our box this week. For those not familiar with bok choy, it is a Chinese cabbage. When it is picked young, it is really tender and makes a good salad. The bok choy in our box was just a bit too tough for a salad, so I decided to put it in a soup. I saw this recipe for Chicken and Bok Choy soup on Allrecipes.com. However, I wanted to go with an Asian flavor (since it is a Chinese cabbage).
We ate this as a light main dish, but it could also be a soup course for a larger meal.
We did a lot of entertaining last week. I normally don’t experiment on company (except our niece and her husband), but I figured I was safe with the salad I served for a barbeque.
This would be a great side dish for your Memorial Day party. It is important that you use BABY bok choy, since the more mature product is tougher and not suitable to use raw.
As I mentioned in my last post, my niece and her husband are always up for trying anything I make. While they were visiting over the weekend, I made a stir fry with the bok choy and some of the onion in our box. I also used up some of the leftover vegetables in our refrigerator. Must have been pretty good-there were no leftovers!
I like doing a stir fry for company-you can chop all the ingredients in advance, and it cooks quickly when company arrives and it is close to time to eat.
We were invited to a pig roast over the weekend, and the hostess requested I bring “one of your veggie creations.” I added some bok choy to our box this week, and was thinking a bok choy salad. I found this recipe on yummly for Oriental Cold Noodle Salad, and thought I could modify it with more vegetables. Unfortunately, our grocery store is in the process of “resetting,” and they didn’t have soyba noodles. I found some Mai Fun and decided to try that instead. I came home from the pot luck with an empty bowl, so I think this was a successful recipe.
