Japanese Ramen noodles with spicy tomatoes, tofu and greens

This dish was created on the fly. Originally I was thinking Italian pasta with spinach in tomato sauce as I had a whole bunch of roquette that needed to go. Then I thought of Ramen noodles and tofu and Pixian Doubanjiang came to mind and off I went on a Chinese/Japanese tangent similar to Mapo Tofu just without the meat. It all came together well but I think I didn’t really need the sake.

https://www.copymethat.com/r/1gksonzk2j/ramen-noodles-with-spicy-tomatoes-tofu-a/

#Mastonom #HomeCooking #Cooking #MainMeal #MyDinner #EastAsianFood #FusionKitchen #Food #VegetarianFood #VeganFood #30PlantsAWeek #SylkewebFood #SylkewebFood202603 #Sylkeweb202603

This week seems to be goo week 🤣 But thankfully it‘s been uphill since Monday’s frightful rice with lentils.

Yesterday I made another dish from a new to me European (German to be precise) recipe and afterwards I was wondering how this recipe made it into the supermarket’s collection at all. It was like something inexperienced me would have come up with about 30 years ago and while it was better than what we had on Monday, it was still just gloopy: potato pasta (Schupfnudeln) with a tomato cream and mozzarella sauce, all very sticky. I know there are people who love this kind of thing and my guys ate this quite happily - but devouring a lot of Asian food for decades has definitely changed my idea of how to eat things. It was the roquette that saved this dish.

Today we had Asian style gloop (fried Japanese rice with sauces mixed in) but also some nice broccolini and mini oyster mushrooms - and somehow this was a million miles better, so here some recipes:
https://www.copymethat.com/r/c6zbw97m9p/chinese-style-fried-rice-with-mu-err-mus/
https://thewoksoflife.com/chinese-broccoli-with-oyster-sauce/

#Mastonom #HomeCooking #Cooking #MainMeal #MyDinner #EastAsianFood #FusionKitchen #Food #VegetarianFood #30PlantsAWeek #SylkewebFood #SylkewebFood202601 #Sylkeweb202601

What do we have here? More May turnip! 😁

I gently fried the May turnip and carrot sticks in butter, added a little sugar, pepper and salt, but left out the parsley:
https://www.copymethat.com/r/lt2dzwih4f/may-turnip-sauteed-in-butter/

The mushrooms were combined with the ribboned May turnip leaves using this recipe as an inspiration:
https://www.justonecookbook.com/warm-mushroom-salad-sesame-dressing/

The tofu was braised Korean style, so easy:
https://messyvegancook.com/korean-braised-tofu-dubu-jorim/

#Mastonom #HomeCooking #Cooking #MainMeal #MyDinner #EastAsianFood #FusionKitchen #Food #VegetarianFood #VeganFood #30PlantsAWeek #SylkewebFood #SylkewebFood202510 #Sylkeweb202510
@[email protected]

After all those Kohlrabi tubers I’m currently turning to May turnips to get my leafy greens. They are quite versatile as they are less sturdy than Kohlrabi greens.

Yesterday I ordered my son into the kitchen to help me create the green parcels you can see on the photo. They are blanched May turnip leaves filled with king prawns, (fried) tofu, grated carrot, May turnip ribbons, cucumber slices, red pepper pieces, and a little bit of chopped red onion. Very crunchy and perfect with a dipping sauce made of soy sauce, sake, sesame oil, olive oil.

I paired them with rice and a simple Thai style red curry, that was OK but not quite the right thing. If I should ever make this again (the parcels require quite some time), I think I’d make a rice noodle dish to go with it.

https://www.copymethat.com/r/y18dahowuo/collard-rolls/

#Mastonom #HomeCooking #Cooking #MainMeal #MyDinner #EastAsianFood #FusionKitchen #Food #Flexitarian #30PlantsAWeek #SylkewebFood #SylkewebFood202510 #Sylkeweb202510
@[email protected]

We had delicious Shogayaki (Chili Oil Ginger Pork) cooked by my son. My recipe database indicates that I made this only once before (in 2020) and my previous photo shows me something definitively not looking as good as this. I think I need to make him cook more often.

I prepared all the other items:
🥢 Enoki Mushrooms with Garlic & Spring Onion Sauce
🥢 Hokkaido seaweed salad
🥢 Miso soup
🥢 Japanese rice

I also used some furikake on my rice which came from an assorted box and turned out to be “small fish taste” - this made my meal VERY Japanese all of a sudden 🤣

Recipes used:
https://www.kokorocares.com/blogs/recipes/chili-oil-ginger-pork-shogayaki
https://thewoksoflife.com/enoki-mushrooms-garlic-scallion-sauce/
https://kokorocares.com/products/hokkaido-seaweed-salad with ponzu

#Mastonom #HomeCooking #Cooking #MainMeal #MyDinner #EastAsianFood #JapaneseFood #ChineseFood #FusionKitchen #Food #Flexitarian #30PlantsAWeek #SylkewebFood #SylkewebFood202506 #Sylkeweb202506
@[email protected]

Simple to prepare, yet very satisfying. I asked my son to help as time was running away and while I washed the rice for the rice cooker he had basically gathered and cut up everything we needed. He made the salad and started with the tofu puffs. Then we folded the dry clothes and hung up the laundry while the rice cooker and the tofu puffs did their thing. On top of that I had to cut a spring onion, decided to use up some leftover toasted sesame seeds, and turned the tofu in the sauce at some point but this was not much work at all.

Recipes used:
https://www.copymethat.com/r/7sy93wcjke/tofu-puffs-in-sweet-chilli-sauce/
https://www.copymethat.com/r/NojicTP3s/lillians-cabbage-salad/

#Mastonom #HomeCooking #Cooking #MainMeal #MyDinner #EastAsianFood #FusionKitchen #Food #Flexitarian #30PlantsAWeek #SylkewebFood #SylkewebFood202506 #Sylkeweb202506
@[email protected]

Today I wanted to use Japanese Natto Koji paste that had been sitting in my fridge for a while and on the suggestion of a friend mixed it with spring onions, soy sauce, mustard (powdered Japanese Karashi), some algae stuff - but not the raw egg yolk (I don’t trust our eggs enough). The mustard powder which I thought had lost most of its bite did a U-turn on me today and went up our noses 🤣 but other than that little mustard overdose this was a good combination, perfect to eat with rice. I also made Szechuan style asparagus, another dish with heat, this time from chillies and Szechuan peppercorns. Finally I got out a little tiny jar of a Japanese chilli paste which still added something umamiwise but in terms of heat it was benign compared to the other things.

Recipes used:
https://www.feastingathome.com/wok-seared-asparagus-with-chili-garlic-black-bean-sauce/
https://www.feastingathome.com/wok-seared-asparagus-with-chili-garlic-black-bean-sauce/

#Mastonom #HomeCooking #Cooking #MainMeal #MyDinner #EastAsianFood #FusionKitchen #Food #VegetarianFood #VeganFood #30PlantsAWeek #SylkewebFood #SylkewebFood202505 #Sylkeweb202505
@[email protected]

On meatless Monday (after a weekend of eating out) my son and I made Schnitzel from King Oyster mushrooms with Japanese Tonkatsu sauce and Korean Kimchi rice with added Kohlrabi leaves. The leaves come from my balcony. We went easy on the Gochujang in the Kimchi rice this time which was better for my tastebuds. Definitely a winning combination.

Recipes used:
https://www.maangchi.com/recipe/kimchi-bokkeumbap
https://www.copymethat.com/r/z6h0NTWuJ/oyster-mushroom-schnitzel/

#Mastonom #HomeCooking #Cooking #MainMeal #MyDinner #EastAsianFood #FusionKitchen #Food #MeatlessMonday #VegetarianFood #VeganFood #30PlantsAWeek #SylkewebFood #SylkewebFood202505 #Sylkeweb202505
@[email protected]

After yesterday’s meal with tofu and vegetables I had this one planned in for today, more tofu with vegetables. 😂 Slightly different yet good too.

Recipe used:
https://www.copymethat.com/r/a2epRPip4/stir-fried-smoked-tofu-with-onion-and-ca/

#Mastonom #HomeCooking #Cooking #MainMeal #MyDinner #EastAsianFood #FusionKitchen #Food #MeatlessMonday #VegetarianFood #VeganFood #30PlantsAWeek #SylkewebFood #SylkewebFood202503 #Sylkeweb202503
@[email protected]

I was looking forward to today!

When we were last in Berlin I bought a bag of spicy Dan Dan Hot Pot base and for a while I had completely forgotten about it but I rediscovered it the other day and put it in the meal plan. That day I bought so many typically Japanese food items in the Asian supermarket that the cashier asked me whether I like Japanese food and proceeded to tell me that she was Japanese. Of course I needed to try out some of my Japanese sentences and she understood what I was saying (despite some glaring errors as I realised afterwards) and I understood some of what she was saying. That was a bit embarrassing but also exhilarating 😅

For our hot pot I bought some meat that I put in the freezer for 45 minutes to be able to cut it thinly afterwards. What else did I add to the hot pot?

Mushrooms: dried shiitake, Chinese button mushrooms
Vegetables: green beans, carrot, Kohlrabi, parsnip, broccoli
Protein: beef, pork, tiger prawns, smoked tofu (defrosted)

We also had some dipping sauces. My son was in charge of those 🥵🤣

There were some (uncooked) ramen noodles and hot water on standby but we didn’t need them. They will be eaten with the rest of the soup soon.

The family was happy, I was happy, what more could I want for! 🙏🏻

While hotpot is actually easy once you’ve done it a couple of times, it seemed fairly daunting at the beginning. I came across this post today which I think shows well that there is no limit to what you can do:
https://www.hungryhuy.com/hot-pot-at-home/

#Mastonom #HomeCooking #Cooking #MainMeal #MyDinner #JapaneseFood #EastAsianFood #ChineseFood #FusionKitchen #Food #Flexitarian #30PlantsAWeek #SylkewebFood #SylkewebFood202502 #Sylkeweb202502
@[email protected]