Japanese Food Beans Goma-Ae (Goma-Yogoshi): Dirty Sesame Salad
“Goma-Ae” (vegetables with sesame sauce) is a very popular Japanese dish to eat at home. It’s a kind of salad with the s...
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Marinade A simple marinade with baked leeks
It's a delicious season for leeks. I like making soups and gratins, but today I made a simply grilled marinade.
Salad Tataki Cucumber with Sweet Spicy Soy sauce
This year, and every year, I've been too lazy to label them properly. We are growing two varieties of vine tomatoes, 'Ga...
Salad Courgette and Corn Salad with Tuna
We are growing a lot of courgette plants this year, 3 of which are planted in the ground and the rest are in planters. I...
Japanese Food Green Peas Rice using Japanese Rice
Green Peas rice is one of the symbolic dishes in Japanese springtime. We harvested some green peas from our vegetable ga...
Japanese Food 豚汁 (Tonjiru / Butajiru) Pork Miso Soup with Vegetables from our Garden
Our vegetable garden is at the peak of its harvest. Every day we are harvesting cucumbers, courgette, tomatoes, beans, e...
Salad Tomato &Cucumber Simple Salad
We harvested some tomatoes and cucumbers from our vegetable garden, so I made tomato and cucumber salad with lots of her...
Salad Tataki Cucumber Recipe
In Japanese, Tataki has two meanings in terms of food preparation. One is to beat the food with a rolling pin to make it...
Japanese Food Daikon Radish Leaf Furikake
We harvested a Daikon radish today. Due to the change in temperature, the radish had flower buds, so we quickly harveste...
Salad Cucumber and Avocado Salad with Garden Herbs
We harvested some cucumbers from our vegetable garden and made a salad with avocado and herbs also from the garden. In t...