Rice with tinned fish and three kinds of vegetable dishes

Today’s Japanese/East Asian style meal was so easy to prepare that I was really surprised at how quickly it was ready to eat. I’ve also tried something I never had before.

On social media I had seen a Japanese person (living in Germany) try “Dorschleber” from a tin and recommend it - but I had never tried it unlike many other kinds of tinned fish. I’m not sure I would have bought it if I had known it’s cod liver in English as that makes me think of the much loathed cod liver oil which in German is known as Lebertran.

When I just looked up the translation I realised that Dorsch must be the same fish as Kabeljau which is what the word cod so far meant to me. Both translations are right: in principle Dorsch is a cod that lives in the Baltic Sea and Kabeljau is a cod from the Northern Atlantic Ocean. However, sometimes young Kabeljau is also called Dorsch, which obviously can be confusing. And I never knew that the hated Lebertran comes from this fish. We learn something new every day!

In any case, the cod liver was very mild, soft and somehow buttery. I liked it!

We had:
🥢 Mackarel in XO sauce from a tin (for the guys)
🥢 Cod liver from a tin (for me)
🥢 Okra with ginger soy sauce
🥢 Chinese broccoli with mushrooms and oyster sauce
🥢 Kimchi (from a tin)
🥢 Japanese rice

Recipes used:
https://www.justonecookbook.com/okra-with-ginger-soy-sauce/
https://thewoksoflife.com/chinese-broccoli-with-oyster-sauce/

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Linguine and King Prawns in a Lemon Cream Sauce with Fried Courgette

I dug out this old recipe as I need to use up some of my emergency storage supplies, in this particular case soy cream. I’m using soy cream as I can’t handle too much lactose at once (and cow milk cream seems to be a big offender). On top of that it has the advantage of not needing to be put into the fridge as long as it’s unopened, therefore being perfect for storage. I also find it perfectly inoffensive tastewise.

Whenever I made this dish in the past I would get complaints from my family members about king prawns being part of it (which I love), so it’s rare that I make it. Today I thought I’ll simply not give them as many king prawns and take most of them for myself - since I’m the only one who really appreciates them. Guess what, they complained! I can’t win 😅

Anyway, this is fast and easy and therefore a perfect meal for busy days:
https://www.copymethat.com/r/al1Fq72MN/linguine-and-king-prawns-in-a-lemon-crea/

I also pan fried some green asparagus and it complimented the pasta really well.

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Achiote chicken

It’s been a whole year since we tried this dish for the first and second time and I’ve been thinking about it ever since but somehow never prepared it again. Why on earth did it take us so long?!

My husband made it this time and it really is so, so good with the Annatto aroma and copious amounts of lime juice 🤤 It looks spicy because of the vibrant red colour but that is misleading, any heat comes from black pepper (or any other hot spice you would add to your taste).

We used a ready made Achiote paste (contains Annatto seeds) but it’s probably worth it to go the extra mile of making your own Achiote paste as suggested on the recipe website.

If you can’t find Annatto seeds or ready made achiote paste in your local shops, try an international supermarket or look online for Mexican food items to order.

Recipes for reference:
https://thenovicechefblog.com/achiote-chicken-recipe-mexican-marinade/
https://thenovicechefblog.com/achiote-paste/

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Japanese style food Friday

The challenge with Japanese food for me is not really the cooking of each dish but to get everything to be ready around the same time without any of the warm items going too cold.
Nevertheless, this collection worked out very well even though one of the two sets of gyoza was a bit tardy:

🥢 Quick pickled daikon slices
🥢 Crispy fried lotus root
🥢 Enoki Mushrooms with Garlic & Spring Onion Sauce
🥢 Crunchy gyoza from frozen (with dipping sauce)
🥢 Japanese rice
🥢 Miso soup

https://www.copymethat.com/r/celxlydq0v/quick-pickled-daikon-slices/
https://www.copymethat.com/r/kBMO4nxqO/fried-lotus-root/
https://thewoksoflife.com/enoki-mushrooms-garlic-scallion-sauce/
https://www.copymethat.com/r/sezh1TxSY/crunchy-gyoza-from-frozen/

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Salmon with pasta in a cream sauce

Pasta and salmon are such a perfect combination and we’ve gone through a number of different iterations during the last 25 years or so.

We started with a simple cream sauce with smoked salmon, then I added a courgette cut into matchsticks so my small child would eat some vegetable. This became version 1 and my small child’s absolute favourite dinner and at some point I had to stop cooking this for myself as I simply had enough of it 😅
Since said small child has become a hungry teenager and now a hungry young adult, I’ve gone back and played with this meal. There is version 1.5 with a lemon sauce and cold hot smoked salmon. And then I replaced the smoked salmon with oven baked honey mustard salmon (version 2), then back to hot smoked salmon which I now warm up in the oven, definitely recommended. And the courgette is cut into thick slices, no more hiding! The pasta twirls have been replaced by linguine or tagliatelle, sometimes spinach pasta. That is version 3.

Version 1:
https://www.copymethat.com/r/AmIWh0q48/pasta-with-smoked-salmon-in-a-creme-frai/

Version 1.5 with lemon:
https://www.copymethat.com/r/gDdxFxiRT/fresh-pasta-with-hot-smoked-salmon-in-a-/

Version 2 with honey mustard salmon:
https://www.copymethat.com/r/v6BoAvjT4/honey-mustard-salmon-oven-dish/

Version 3 with hot smoked salmon:
https://www.copymethat.com/r/V11FBpOJS/salmon-with-pasta-in-a-cream-sauce/

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Chicken with Spinach (Saag Murgh)

More spinach! 😇 This weekend‘s main meal was a very down to earth Indian (Punjabi) curry from Madhur Jaffrey’s Ultimate Curry Bible. We had this some years back and I think I wasn’t that impressed, so I wanted to try it again. My husband did a good job and I liked it better this time.

I’m too lazy to create a version of this recipe that I can share; here’s one I found that describes the process using a whole chicken (we used chicken fillets):
https://www.them-apples.co.uk/2010/02/saag-murgh-or-chicken-and-spinach-curry/

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Gyoza with homemade stuffing

I’ve had two packs of gyoza skins in my freezer for far too long, finally it was their time to shine. I started early but it took two hours to deal with everything despite of having conscripted my guys for help. We followed the gyoza recipe from Just One Cookbook.

As we wanted a full meal I started with the rice so it could sit and wait in the rice cooker for when we were done and also got out a tin of kimchi, various furikake mixtures and miso soup to have them in place when needed. The child made the dipping sauce for the gyoza.

I had defrosted the 70+ skins and separated them carefully onto a plate while father and son were doing the chopping and mixing of the gyoza stuffing. I made sure to add some extra garlic paste (as we don’t have Nira, Japanese garlic chives) together with the other seasonings to the stuffing.

The fiddly work of folding the gyoza was done by my child and me. It took us a few attempts to get it right - but you can tell by the photos that we wouldn’t get a prize for the most accomplished gyoza 😅

While I was frying the table was laid and by the time I had used up about half of the gyoza I decided we had enough and the rest would go into the freezer.

What can I say, the taste of the gyoza was just right! So much better than most that you can buy ready made in this country (Germany) and all of that preparation work was definitely worth it 😋

Recipe followed:
https://www.justonecookbook.com/gyoza/

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