Full veg’ lunch : falafel, kimchi, hijiki… (via Gourmande in Osaka)

Bright food for a dark day of rainy season. It's nearly vegan (kimchi is not, no problem for me) and fully yummy. First dish : hijiki and carrot ying-yang. They are boiled. Hijiki are black seaweeds. Under there is a sauce of mirin, soy sauce, sesame seeds and fragrant sesame oil. Once mixed : Kimchi salad. 2 days ago, I had a small left-over of kimchi and most of the juice. I mixed in cubes of daikon radish and cucumber. It's less spicy than kim … Read More

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Eating out of the box – Indoor picnic (via Gourmande in Osaka)

It's still too cold to eat a bento box under the cherry blossoms… that are not yet opened here. Top floor : hot silky tofu with borstch. Garnished by shiso leaves. Haccho miso and green chili soup. Base : rice and kinpira. Making kinpira Brown rice with a umeboshi (pickled plum). Left-over of carrot and hijiki kinpira. Leftover of a stir-fry kinpira : spinach renkon (lotus root) cut in big chunks, garlic, chili pepper, soy sauce. As a dessert : … Read More

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It’s snowing quinoa. White, not red… but wait. (via Gourmande in Osaka)

It's quinoa and it's snowing on the Smurf houses. If my neighbours don't want to be confused with the Smurf, they shouldn't get blue roofs. Well, to be a hip food blog, you have to show quinoa. Here it is. But no, the new hip quinoa is red. And I don't have that. They sell only white here, and it's not really cheap as an exotic excentricity. I thought I could color it in pink or purple. This yukari furikake. A furikake is a dry powder mix to put … Read More

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