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I had stumbled over a German language recipe for aubergine Unadon style. Unadon is a Donburi (a bowl full of Japanese rice) topped with Unagi (fried eel with a savoury sweet sauce) which is something I like a lot.
Unfortunately I was not able to fry the aubergine so that it would get golden brown WITHOUT sticking to the pan. I think I started with too low a temperature. 🥹 Anyway, I still made a Nasu donburi, a rice bowl topped with aubergine which was absolutely delicious.
We had this with dusted fried oyster mushrooms, blanched Pak Choi, Japanese rice and Miso soup.
Recipe used:
https://www.kitchenstories.com/de/rezepte/glasierte-aubergine-nach-japanischer-art-auberginen-unagi
I’ve just realised that it also exists in English:
https://www.kitchenstories.com/en/recipes/eggplant-unagi-japanese-style-glazed-eggplant
I was a bit surprised to see teriyaki sauce as an ingredient. I don’t see why I should go out and buy that ready made (with all kinds of preservatives) if I can make it myself easily, or just quickly make the proper unagi sauce (same ingredients as teriyaki, just in different proportions) as described here:
https://www.justonecookbook.com/homemade-unagi-sauce/
I really should stick to JustOneCookbook.com 😅
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It would have been nice to have more of yesterday’s pickled mustard greens but they most likely wouldn’t have been right for today’s dish of Szechuan Dry Fried Green Beans as they were not from China. Therefore I followed the recommendation in the recipe to use Doubanjiang (fermented chilli bean paste) instead. I also threw in a handful of baby spinach leaves for effect and used more pork mince than stated to bulk it up for my hungry guys. We were very pleased.
Recipe used:
https://omnivorescookbook.com/szechuan-dry-fried-green-beans/
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Pickled mustard greens (Takana) fried rice with sweet chilli tofu puffs. I used a ready made pack of Takana but I’ve experimented before with creating a similar taste profile using spinach.
I experimented with a pack of tofu puffs and heated them up slowly adding some sweet chilli sauce at the end.
I still had some shiso (perilla) leaves in the fridge which we used to mop up the plates, grabbing the rice with them. Very yum!
Recipe used:
https://kokorocares.com/blogs/recipes/recipe-takana-fried-rice
https://www.copymethat.com/r/7sy93wcjke/tofu-puffs-in-sweet-chilli-sauce/
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Fish steamed in tinfoil, loaded with onion, carrots, mushrooms and spinach. Seasoned with dried yuzu peel and soy sauce.
Recipe used:
https://kokorocares.com/blogs/recipes/recipe-yuzu-foil-fish
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These beautiful big rigatoni need a rich sauce that sticks well to them. I made a slightly spicy tomato sauce with shiitake and shimeji mushrooms that fits perfectly.
Recipes used:
https://www.copymethat.com/r/4S4QBazFg/tomato-sauce-with-harissa/
https://www.copymethat.com/r/a6LqQcnCp/conchiglione-or-rigatoni-with-spicy-mush/
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On the weekend we had banana leaves in the house and therefore my husband made Puerco Pibil, a dish from the Yucatán peninsula.
While this was in the oven for four hours the apartment slowly filled up with the aroma. In the living room it seemed to me like I was mainly sensing Habañero pepper (and possibly tequila) but once I had entered the kitchen there was a lot more to it, which I attributed to the annato seeds and the other spices (cumin, allspice, cloves). I still haven’t decided what was what exactly but we are going to put it to a test in two weeks time when I‘ll make a chicken dish with achiote paste (a ready made paste mainly made of annato seeds) but without habañeros.
Not too long ago I realised that these days I seem to be able to smell how hot a dish or spice mix is going to be. If I get this particular aroma into my nose it’s definitely something to be careful with. Maybe it’s just the Habañero peppers that cause this, but it’s definitely new to me 😅 The others claim they don’t smell anything out of the ordinary. 🤔
That being said, served with long grain rice this dish was very edible in every way.
Anyway, once again the recipe for puerco pibil:
https://www.copymethat.com/r/lwPRBQO0Y/puerco-pibil-by-robert-rodriguez/
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I don’t know who created this graphic and can’t give credit but I find it very interesting as my beloved topics of cooking and linguistics intermingle here, so I had to post it. I always find it interesting how loan words start to change in meaning in their new language environments.
The underlying etymology can be found here:
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/katsu
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Over the last days we had some easy food.
Meatless Monday:
Spaghetti with fried mushrooms and a lemony pesto sauce. I still had some beer batter left and used that for tofu again.
https://www.copymethat.com/r/758EwYNFp/pasta-with-mushrooms-and-wild-garlic-pes/
Pancake (Shrove) Tuesday:
Indian chickpea flour pancakes with fried Halloumi cheese, red onion and tomato/bell pepper salads.
http://www.veganricha.com/recipe-pages/vegan-chickpea-flour-pancakes
Wednesday:
I was out in the city centre and when I came home I had an emergency meal of yummy Chinese dumplings (my boys ate Döner).
Thursday:
We tried spaghetti Amatriciana, a very mellow yet satisfying dish.
https://www.recipesfromitaly.com/amatriciana-pasta-recipe/
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At lunch we had some leftover baked celeriac and I decided to fry it in beer dough. Somehow this didn’t work properly and the dough didn’t puff up. In the evening I used the cooled dough again, added a little more baking powder and flour, and the tofu came out perfectly. 🤔 Our son ate that with pasta and tonkatsu sauce, whatever floats his boat I guess… 😆
Recipes used at lunchtime:
For the celeriac: https://www.copymethat.com/r/zSjleg0hG/tofu-fingers-in-beer-batter/
https://www.justonecookbook.com/yamitsuki-cabbage/
https://thewoksoflife.com/enoki-mushrooms-garlic-scallion-sauce/
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I’ve been reading about celeriac, people are raving about how good it is baked. I only knew celeriac as small soft cubes or slippery slices in my mother’s noodle soup which I hated as a child and therefore I had given a wide berth ever since. In the UK I tried fresh celery which has a similar taste profile (it is a related but different plant) and found it was OK to eat, definitely better than overcooked celeriac. That got me used to that particular taste again (that also works well in salads), so I thought maybe it is time to try actual celeriac, baked, not in soup. What can I say, baked for two hours it turned almost as soft as butter and with a Japanese style sauce it tasted really nice. 😊
We also tried Japanese potato salad for the first time. It was nice and refreshing, somewhat similar to my mother’s recipe but not quite as hearty.
All of this paired well with the asparagus meat rolls, rice and miso soup.
Recipes used in this meal:
https://www.copymethat.com/r/7860boaysn/baked-celeriac/
https://www.justonecookbook.com/japanese-potato-salad/
https://www.copymethat.com/r/M3Ro9N1gu/asparagus-nikumaki-meat-rolls/
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