Tag Archives: simple
First Perilla
Summer seems more evident with the majority of green produce in the off-license claiming it’s origins from the UK. The strawberries are still fruiting and flowering despite the unusual dry (and sunny!) weather. Unfortunately due to the move the crop of red perilla hadn’t the time in the ground as it should – last year […]
Feeling a Little Zen
After the previous vegetarian stint it wasn’t too hard to upgrade (or is that downgrade?) to vegan level. I had bought konnyaku from a ‘rare ingredients’ shopping trip (short grain rice is difficult to find around here 🙁 ); though I am still not convinced of its effect as a ‘diet food’. Mainly containing fibre […]
Temari Onigiri
The one big advantage from the move is evident in the kitchen – we seem to be able to get our hands on very fresh and local produce. One trip the local farm shop, which we consider our first stop for greens, had Yvan cycle home with a backpack of veggies. With such happy leafy […]
A Lunch of Two Cabbages
With a gloriously sunny weekend the sun summons for Yvan to the BBQ (and generally a home-cooked meal outside), we paid visits to two of our local farm shops for meat and seasonal veg. The extremely local veg, asparagus, was so fresh cut that it was oozing liquid from the ends and we happily took […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Simmered Kombu Rolls
Yvan has discovered that a south-east asian grocery near his work stocks umeboshi – and a very bright red (but tasty) variety at that! In addition: a good quality short grain rice. The previous evening there was a surplus of certain ingredients in the house and Yvan decided on cooking up something he hadn’t cooked […]
Healthy & Balanced
I’ve run out of white rice for now, so I have gone the healthy route: brown. I don’t really like the texture of brown rice unless it was paired with something saucy or strong flavoured, but going a more healthy route might be best considering all the springrolls I go through! Lunch contents: half a […]
Squid Rice
Finally used up the squid cutoffs that weren’t used for a past marinara – simmered in a sweet soy seasoning with kombu (for tsukudani). A few leftovers and there’s a hearty lunch! Lunch contents: beef and parsnip croquette, steamed broccoli, steamed edamame and carrot, red onion tempura, cherry tomato, spring onion and sesame seed tamagoyaki, […]