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Sweet Bean Sprout Stirfry
To try something a little different, I tried omitting the spice component in kimpira to stirfry the bean sprouts. They turned out a little sweet – since I used mirin. The sorrel was a good addition to add a little zing to this though. Lunch contents: fried rice with chives, hijiki, carrot, sorrel leaf, bean […]
Abundant Sides
I find that BBQs with more than one meat item hard to finish – especially if Yvan’s in charge. With lamb and sausages from the local butchers, it’s hard not to eat it all (but very easy to make the attempt!) In an effort to balance the meat I had bought bean sprouts which I […]
Mabo Dofu
I’ve never had an authentic mabo dofu – or was it mapo tofu?? The dish has chinese roots and the version I created was loosely based on the japanese as I don’t have the appropriate bean pastes nor szechuan pepper for spicing it up. The furikake I made was another experiment in trying to be […]
Spiced Onion Leftovers
When it comes to the weekends, we normally have a route that pretty much is the same but sometimes ordered differently. However, if we’re inclined to eat as carnivores then the local (and traditional) butcher is the first destination as we’d have to beat the other customers for the best variety available – come around […]
Kimchi Pancake
The combination of kimchi pancakes and kimpira is a tasty one! Probably should of added sorrel from the garden to that for extra fresh greenery and more of a citrus zing.. Lunch contents: Plain rice mixed with egg white with edamame and sesame, carrot kimpira with pickled sweet piquante peppers, salted cucumber, leftover lamb chop […]
Hikiji Rice
Trying to be a little more healthy, I tried adding hijiki to slightly vinegared rice – white rice is notoriously high carb and low fibre. It would of been better to have grated carrot too, in retrospect. In the end however, I would always favour my plain white rice! Lunch contents: Sushi rice mixed with […]
Steak & Hijiki Salad
Hijiki never ceases to surprise me how much it swells up to from the tiny dry strands you’d find in healthfood or south-east asian grocers. It is apparently contains a lot of fibre, and as one that desires less weight in their mid-section that is a property that appeals. Unlike the flavour of kombu I […]
Spicy Fried Rice
If asked to indulge in a traditional Filipino breakfast, I’d have to decline unless I’d just starved myself first. Most items in this one meal are fried or full of fat or carbs and I cannot ever remember anything that was close to being a vegetable in it.. apart from garlic in the garlic fried […]
Gyoza & Bacon
You can also call this one ‘defrosted from frozen’ as most of the side dishes were all freezer stash – the gyoza was defrosted overnight. The bacon wraps simply have greed onion inside, providing a big flavour hit to the otherwise bland rice. Lunch contents: Gyoza, bacon-wrapped spring onion, steamed broccoli, grape tomatoes with carrot […]
Edamame Lines
When you are really short on time, and you don’t have a massive lunch stash then there is not many options to make your lunch look like it was quickly thrown together willy-nilly.. Wrong! Even a simple pattern of veg can really boost the appearance of a bento. Lunch contents: rice, edamame, black sesame seeds, […]