Tag Archives: simple
Basic Lumpia
Not feeling so inspired, I thought of clearing the freezer of more my lumpia. Also not feeling too healthy I tried mixing brown and white short grain rice. Instead of sauce, I intended the tomatoes to replace it, while the herbs and radish be eaten as a simple salad. Lunch contents: white and brown rice […]
Home-grown Tomato
Our tomatoes are unhappy with the backyard: far too little sunlight reaches it shaded by neighbour’s fences or trees. The ones that have grown to maturity have been seeming to be the fodder for wildlife so we decided to pull up one of the plants and harvest what we could. Seeing there weren’t many ripe […]
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 […]
Pork Vegetable Roll
One staple I seem to find in lots of the japanese bento blogs are a meat roll that contains a small checkerboard of carrot and (probably french) bean. Similar to the bacon rolls I’ve done, this time I went the whole hog (excuse the pun) and used pork loin cut thin. These wrapped around the […]
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 […]
Garden Green Rice & Meatballs
The herbs are king in a garden where there is little full sun to share. The chives, parsley and sorrel seem pretty happy and have plenty of growth for the picking. In addition, the local radish growers seem to be keeping the greengrocers with a steady supply – I made two small batches of pickled […]
Saucy Balls
I store small balls of hamburger mix in the freezer, as I have the flexibility in turning them into more flat hamburgers or keep them as they are. I also prefer to have them with a sauce. I was reminded of the ‘hanbaagu’, a version close to Salisbury steak that have a sauce poured over […]
Rocket Sprouts
We let the rocket in the backyard go to seed last year, and were amused how almost the entire garden bed was peppered with tiny rocket seedlings. At this time, it is easier to identify the rocket from the weed and the best time to thin them out. Though, I couldn’t really bare to just […]