It’s got colder in recent days and lower temperatures reminded me of the upcoming end of tomato season. I’m preserving it for the winter (preparing especially my beloved…
I was going to write about a completely different dish, but this salad turned out so fantastic, I had to tell you about it while ripe delicious tomatoes…
A big part of my summer meals consist of bowlfuls of salad leaves, topped with tomato, sometimes other raw vegetables, and proteins, such as cheese, egg, ham, bacon, canned tuna…. I often…
While in Japan we usually follow the same eating pattern: restaurant for lunch and izakaya for dinner. Izakaya could be described as the equivalent of a pub, but no one goes there only…
Somehow, even though lettuce is available throughout the year, I rarely have it in winter (while I can have prepare a green salad sometimes every other day in the summer!). At…
If you have planned time-consuming festive meals, this quick, made in advance side-dish might be what you look for, especially since, in spite of its exotic appearance, it…
I know most of us have been looking for warming, filling autumn dishes, but maybe, just like me, from time to time you need something…
I grew up barely knowing the taste of aubergine. Later I started to associate it with fried, extremely oily, mushy stuff I disliked. When I discovered moussaka I realised the aubergine…
I did have salt-pickled aubergine in Japan several times, but I have never prepared it and, most of all, I have never suspected that salting it for ten minutes…
I always like being positively surprised by recipes I don’t expect much from, particularly if they are as simple as this one. You steam or…