Spring salad✨ Scallops, strawberries, with wasabi EVOO dressing / ホタテ・イチゴ・和の香とわさびドレッシングのサラダ Seasonal salad featuring strawberries, sashimi (raw) scallops,and Japanese herbs… with delicious wasabi & EVOO dressing✨Eating local & fresh & seasonal! is always my motto✨ Quick idea… Not an ad – but a story about my favorite...
Daikon salad with Steaming Sesame Oil / 熱し油で大根サラダ Happy Tuesday✨ Something I always wanted to try – steaming hot sesame oil as a dressing on a salad.This time with Daikon (Japanese radish), they are so crunchy and juicy. Unfortunately, I made a big mistake…I...
Grilled Salmon & seasonal veggie salad / サーモンとグリル野菜のサラダ Happy Monday✨ Almost snowing in Tokyo…✨We’ve stocked up much veggies & groceries… I always enjoyed these moments when I was a child.It’s nice to be well equipped, ready to enjoy the days inside. I am into...
Special Spring Gifts From Japanese Mountains- “Fukinoto” Miso & Kinpira With “Udo” / 春の風味、フキノトウ味噌＆ウドのきんぴら Happy February✨ Specific flavors, with early spring veggies from Japanese mountains✨Usually with bitterness- maybe like Japanese sorts of Brussels sprouts…? Something I miss living abroad.These are more of grandma’s tastes, but it’s always wonderful to carry...
Salad diaries with Japanese seasonal greens & herbs / 旬の食材のサラダ＆和え物✨ Happy Tuesday✨ Salad diaries…✨ With Japanese flavors✨ Very simple & quick idea ■Kaki (oysters) × kaki (persimmons) salad (pic1-4)In Japanese, oysters and persimmons are both called “Kaki”- characters are different (牡蠣＆柿）, but sounding just the same.Enjoying...
Colorful✨ Homemade Chirashi Zushi (or Sushi) /五感でいただく、季節のちらし寿司 Homemade “Chirashi Zushi” (Or, Chirashi Sushi) This time, chirashi zushi with my remaining nigiri sushi ingredients ＋α.“Chirashi= Sprinkled / Scattered” Sushi (like in French liaison, S changes to Z… “nan-no-koccha / whatever”!) I used 80% of...
Clockwise Tsukemono – Perfect Japanese breakfast / 築地のお漬物で、最高な朝ごはん✨ Happy Monday✨ Back in Tokyo again for another few weeks, this time in Tokyo, hoping to spend more time with my parents, relatives and friends. My typical dream breakfast when in Japan— rice, miso shiru (soup),...
Homemade Kimchi with homemade yangnyeom / シンガポールで自家製キムチ Happy Thursday✨ Since my first challenge last year, my fourth batch of homemade kimchi.Still a beginner, but I see why people keep making them at home- it’s much fresh & adjusting to your liking is a...
Quick “Asazuke”, Tsukemono pickles with Nappa & Yuzu / 柚子でさっぱり白菜の浅漬け Happy Wednesday✨ A very quick and easy idea of Tsukemono – Japanese pickles with Napa Cabbage.This time, the simplest of all – “Asazuke” -a type of Tsukemono where the veggies are simply marinated in salt water....
Osechi cooking 2023 ⑨ “Yoro ebi” & “Nishime / Chikuzen-ni” / おせち作り、養老海老＆筑前煮（お煮しめ） Happy Wednesday✨ Documentation on my early Osechi (traditional Japanese New Year meal)✨Really an old school, grandpa grandma menu, but something will not feel right if I don’t cook them. -“Nishime / Chikuzen-ni” – Simmere root Veggies...
Fine Apero Burrata with Chargrilled Grapes and Basil / ブッラータ＆グリルブドウで気の利いたアペロ Fine Apero Burrata with Chargrilled Grapes and Basil In my conversation with my sister in Japan- she asked me if there were any recommended Christmas-ish recipe that would not take too much time to prepare.Their daughter...
Fine Recipe- “Kabocha no Nimono” (Simmered Pumpkins) /かぼちゃの煮物 Happy Tuesday & happy Halloween🎃✨ I totally forgot about this event, until yesterday when my brother sent me a photo of his daughter in her pretty pumpkin dress🧡I wonder if you are dressed in costumes.. in...
