Colour: yellow
Miso Vegetables and Salmon
I have been putting off my bulk rice order for Yvan to sort out the new kitchen layout, so I have been craving plain white rice for a while. With the pantry and shopping schedules thrown, I requested for carrots and a cabbage since they are rather long lived vegetables. Generously, a pair of small […]
Tortang Talong and Makizushi
Though there is a lack of south-east asian grocery stores here, there is a wonderful selection of (what the English refer to as asian) stores. A minute away I have access to a large array of foodstuffs surprisingly missing from the larger supermarkets in town; the best part is the more ‘exotic’ vegetable selection: small […]
Spring Blossom & Gyoza
After all of the gyoza from the fridge was used up for lunch and evening snacks I felt a little sad to note their absence – they were a rather good batch. So it didn’t take much effort to replenish the pantry with ingredients for gyoza once more, minus the wrappers (they aren’t found around […]
Breakfast for Lunch
When I snapped up some salmon on special, I thought I would make a proper large breakfast to start the day. But as most plans go, I was sidetracked so I was left hungry with the breakfast hours long past and nothing in an edible state. One thing I did learn that no matter the […]
Smoked Salmon & Avocado Uramaki
I haven’t made inside-out rolls in a while and it only occurred to me as I cut the full sheet of nori in half that perhaps it wasn’t large enough. Luckily the old memory was correct and they ended up a perfect size despite that nagging doubt. In a sort of contrast to the previous […]
Frugal Spicy Salmon Maki
“I’ll work from home tomorrow” – Yvan’s words yesterday made me think that my preparation was all in vain. I had almost finished cooking some oven-roasted eggplants (the smaller ‘sausage shaped’ variety) in the frypan for a ginger eggplant sidedish and had kicked off the rice cooker. With the weather lately playing winter catch-up, the […]
Return of the Edamame Skewers
Placed an order of rice from Japan Centre, which took a little longer to arrive. Finally got to use some, after finishing a batch of brown rice first – I’ve been anticipating the return of the umeboshi with plain rice combination for a while. The tamagoyaki has some of the chillis kicking about indoors that […]
Roast Chicken Thigh & Kimpira
I rarely use the oven, but this place has two: a main oven and a smaller ‘plate warmer’ sized one. Seeing that I don’t like the idea of cooking small batches in a normal sized oven I found this was a perfect opportunity. With seasoned chicken thighs, I made slits over the skin-side and placed […]
Another Random Makizushi
We’re finally able to harvest more radish in the vegetable bed – it’s a tiny one that looked larger viewing it aboveground. I think for the rest they may need another week. It’s another day that shouldn’t be spent sitting indoors, so I’ve made sushi again for on the go. This time all the items […]
Simmered Dishes
I have been slowly increasing the amount of side dishes I make so I can have them on-hand for lunches. While Yvan took away smoked salmon sushi I left mine more simple. Reading up the varieties of capsicum, though the green type has the best nutrition it isn’t as sweet so I made a compromise […]