seaweed
grilled onigiri in a green tea broth
(Ochazuke with Yaki-Onigiri) If you’ve never eaten plum onigiri in ochazuke this might seem like an odd grouping of flavours....
first taste: lyle lyle crocodile
Childhood picture books, stories and TV shows that depicted food and dining made a real impression on me. Illustrations of steaming bowls of pasta or a piece of toast smothered in purple jam gave me my first taste of foods I’d yet...
sesame soba noodle lunch
egg poached right in my soba soup and seasoned seaweed on top.
sea(ing) greens
adding seaweed to boiling water almost instantly creates a broth. it imparts so much flavour, and it deepens any vegetable...
ramen noodle week pt. i
i bought fresh ramen noodles so i’m experimenting with a couple of homemade ramen soups this week. tonight, a seaweed-steeped broth, with red, coarse miso added late, and pak choy, a few strips of the boiled seaweed, a mollet egg,...
a random bite of zaru soba and the best tofu ever
there’s a little, unassuming restaurant called sakawaya that makes traditional and fantastic japanese food. i will gush about them in...
a random bite of sushi (marche)
"a random bite" is the other non-recipe addition to the blog that i mentioned i'd be making. it really...
i heart white rice: pt. 1
(and my obsession with seaweed snacks!) it’s nerdy but true. in a way, this is my version of junk food. i try to eat brown or unrefined grains most of the time, and i enjoy them! there are great whole...
mushroom + farro pie
(and other stories) i intended to write about the delicious mushroom and farro pie that i made days ago, but...