Catching bargains and late afternoon light on flavorful fruits (via Gourmande in Osaka)

At the end of the day, Japanese grocery stores, markets and supermarket discount fresh products. 5%, 10%…50% as the hours pass. And they make big bags of fruits "for juice". What is wrong with those fruits ? The apples for instance, they fell. And did you know that a fallen apple was very bad for your health or even less tasty ? No. Because that's not the problem at all. You can keep the "not-fallen" ones months, and the ones that got some shoc … Read More

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Whole and smooth energizing b’fast (via Gourmande in Osaka)

In Winter you could stay in bed all day. You need reasons to get up… Like this, ready in 5 minutes. This is genmai mochi, brown rice mochi. It's a macrobiotic thing, not cheap. In the waffle-maker, you get smaller moffles. Mikan orange home-made jam. Spinach, an old grapefruit and a starchy apple… Juiced. … Read More

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Natto and princess apples

They call these baby apples hime, fairy tale princess. They make a beautiful pre-christmas table center, don’t they ? The thing is they won’t last. I have to eat them… one, by one.

Lazy no cooking meal, J-style. Wasabi natto on hot genmai brown rice.

Ghost in the mist soup.
The mist is due to this light colored miso (of rice and soy) :

The sheets of the ghost are super-thin wonton skins. They fly among dry shiitake, kombu seaweed, carrot, onion, a vegan broth taking its umami in the soaking water of the shiitake mushroom and the kombu.

Coleslaw with apple. Dressing is cider vinegar, onion and Sichuan pepper only.