We tried Honey Pork Belly from Justonecookbook.com and as always we were not disappointed. Sweet and savoury is always a winner in my book. The whole meal came together very well and I also really liked the rice seasoning.

I added:
🥢 Miso soup
🥢 Blistered Padrón Peppers with salt (very similar to Japanese Shishito peppers)
🥢 Two types of cucumber salad, one with chillies, one with Hishio Moromi*
🥢 Chopped spinach with sesame seeds
🥢 Japanese rice with Sakura & Mixed Mountain vegetables rice seasoning*
*Products from Kokorocares.com

Recipe used:
https://www.justonecookbook.com/honey-pork-belly/

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I’ve gone from disliking cabbage to positively loving it since I’ve discovered many interesting dishes that make it shine. Today I made a dish I saw last week here on Pixelfed: Korean Charred Cabbage in Warm Gochujang Vinaigrette (Yangbaechu Gui) and added grilled mackerel from a tin. A very homely meal and quite fast, altogether about 45 minutes, just a little longer than it took the rice cooker to prepare our rice.

The slightly seasoned cabbage got charred under the grill in the oven and mixed with a sauce made with Gochujang, vinegar and some more ingredients.

Thank you, @[email protected], for the recipe:
https://www.kaveyeats.com/korean-charred-cabbage-gochujang-vinaigrette

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Last night I made fresh Mediterranean style cabbage salad and today I added Gigantes Plaki, giant white beans baked in a tomato sauce. While the beans were in the oven I quickly went to the supermarket over the road to get some feta cheese.

All in all a wonderful summery meal - and not spicy at all 😅 I didn’t even need to add salt and pepper, the tomatoes and garlic added the umami and the feta cheese any saltiness that one might miss.

Recipes used:
https://www.copymethat.com/r/xppap801pg/greek-style-cabbage-salad-krautsalat/
https://www.copymethat.com/r/loBrmtXNX/gigantes-plaki-white-beans-in-tomato-sau/

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We still have too many Habañero peppers in the freezer, so I decided I’ll have another go at Trinidadian Callaloo.

I made the necessary green seasoning yesterday. The blended fresh Habañero pepper in there upset me so much that I had to cough several times, but in the end I had so much of the seasoning that I managed to fill a whole ice cube tray with the leftovers. Next time I should probably wear gloves as I could feel the sting of the juices from cutting and deseeding the pepper under my fingernails for the rest of the day. 😅

Today I started with plenty of time, as just cutting all the vegetables takes quite a while. This way I could leave the Callaloo (with another Habañero) to simmer for a whole hour. When I finally got my potato masher out (and removed the pepper before using the masher) everything was easy to deal with and the vegetables had just the right size at the end. I added my frozen king prawns with five minutes to go and they were perfect.

The dish was definitely spicy but with rice it was very edible and we loved it once again.

My guys wanted to try the hot pepper and there was a bit of ooh and aah and also some hiccups 🤣 I advised my son to add a little Szechuan pepper as it numbs the tastebuds and counteracts the heat from chilli peppers. It worked.

[The red sauce was something from the freezer that needed to go.]

Recipe used:
https://cookingwithria.com/2011/10/trinidad-callaloo/

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Another yummy spaghetti dish on Meatless Monday, this time it’s Cacio e Pepe which simply means with cheese and pepper. This is another easy and fast dish where you use the starchy pasta water to create a sauce.

I used loads of Grana Padano and a little Parmigiano Reggiano (Parmesan) and my pepper grinder contains Tellicherry pepper as I like my black pepper hot. I garnished my plate with parsley simply because to me there was something green missing and it worked really well tastewise. We also had our usual lemony lettuce salad with this. The guys added chilli flakes 😅

Recipe used:
https://anitalianinmykitchen.com/authentic-cacio-e-pepe/

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My guys were VERY happy with their lunch today. 😊

I prepared:
🥢 Shio Koji Chicken (my Shio Koji came from Kokorocares.com)
🥢 Japanese aubergine with Sesame Ponzu Sauce
🥢 Japanese rice with chopped pickled plums

Have you ever heard of Shio Koji? It’s my favourite fermented ingredient to marinate chicken meat and if you can get hold of some you should definitely try it out. The meat comes out super tender and is so flavourful! I really loved both of the recipes I found for today’s meal, and of course they are from Justonecookbook.com.

Recipes used:
https://www.justonecookbook.com/shio-koji-chicken/
https://www.justonecookbook.com/eggplant-with-sesame-ponzu-sauce/

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Today we had instant ramen, not that exciting - but I realised that I had never posted this really lovely meal from July 😳, when we had:
🥢 Japanese Macaroni salad - I replaced the macaroni with Shogi (Japanese chess) pasta*
🥢 Coleslaw of Kiriboshi daikon* (dried daikon) and cabbage
🥢 Kimchi
🥢 Wakame & Shimeji Miso Soup*
🥢 Sansho Teriyaki Sardine jerky*
🥢 Japanese rice

All items with asterisks came from Kokorocares.com and as usual helped to make the meal that little bit more exciting as I often cannot get anything like that even in our Asian supermarkets.

Recipes used:
https://www.justonecookbook.com/japanese-macaroni-salad/
https://kokorocares.com/blogs/recipes/recipe-kiriboshi-daikon-coleslaw

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Vegan mapo nasu: soy mince with Japanese aubergine. 😋

I had found some Japanese aubergines at our local supermarket which is somewhat impressive! So I went back to a recipe from JustOneCookbook.com that I had tried quite a while ago but somehow wasn’t happy with at the time. I tried a different one in between but that one was harder to veganise so I tried my luck with this recipe again and made sure to follow the instructions to a tee. What can I say, it all worked really well this time and we were happy with our main meal of the day.

Recipe used:
https://www.justonecookbook.com/mapo-eggplant/

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On Meatless Monday we tried spaghetti aglio e olio again, this time with chilli flakes. This version was faster than the one last week as I had reduced it to the bare minimum of ingredients, and not having to cut the fresh chillies helps with that too.

I wasn’t quite sure how daring I could be with the flakes so by coincidence we ended up with an amount that was just fine for our palates, not too hot at all and definitely nowhere as hot as last week’s habañero pepper.

Out of the two versions I think I prefer the one with fresh chillies and the extra zing they provide but this one was very edible too. ☺️

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Last week I came across a post with ginger pork (shogayaki) and daikon and carrot salad (namase). It looked so delicious I had to try this as well.

So today we had my version: I had to replace the daikon with kohlrabi as it’s sometimes hard to come by daikon. The meat took quite a lot longer than stated on the recipe website, despite deploying two frying pans to deal with it. As suggested in the shogayaki recipe I also added some cabbage salad, I had mine with a sesame dressing. It was definitely worth the effort!

Recipes used:
https://www.justonecookbook.com/ginger-pork-shogayaki/#wprm-recipe-container-60165
https://www.justonecookbook.com/namasu-daikon-and-carrot-salad/

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