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...
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...
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...
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...
Pickles Daikon, Turnip, Radish leaves Pickled in Salted Kelp: A Recipe for our Garden Vegetables
We grow radishes, daikon and turnips in our vegetable garden. When you harvest the root vegetables, you may be disappoin...
Jam & Marmalade Fresh Pineapple and Citrus Jam
We had a fresh pineapple which was getting overripe, so I made a jam with some citrus fruits. You can make a jam simply ...
Salad Green Lentil Salad with Cucumber and Coriander from the Vegetable Garden
We harvested some cucumbers from our vegetable garden and made this salad with green lentils and coriander which was har...