Washism

This coming friday will be halloween~



we dont really celebrate it, but i am having fun making halloween dishes.







i made halloween salad on sunday usuing pumpkin and purple sweet potato to give this pretty mix of orange and purple...

かぼちゃと紫いもサラダ・鰹節入り

Main was spinach and chicken meat loaf

The salad was well received! so i put some in J obento the next day~Soboro (think meat sauce without the ketchup sauce, but Japanese light soya sauce) on rice, crab meat salad, sesame egg omelette, halloween salad

And over the last two days, i made coffee granola and cheese sesame bagels...

parmesan cheese and toasted sesame bagel made for J obento today

Before i baked the bagels, i had to steep the bagel dough all at one time in a big boiling pot of sugared water. For what? The hot water makes the bagel dough expand and the sugar in it a gives the bagels a nice brown layer. It is such a waste to throw the pot of water away after using it for only 2 minutes, so i dropped in some eggs, covered the pot for 15mins, and when i cracked the eggs open, i had nice poached eggs =)

We used them for breakfast this morning

Japanese style risotto with crabmeat

It got a bit chillier today, so i was craving nimono (Japanese dishes simmered in soya and sweet wine are called nimono).

This looks like pork belly, but it is actually tofu! Not the regular white tofu, but rather, a dried kind of tofu made into a layered ring, so when cut up, it looks like pork belly~

I simmered it with white radish and carrots.

Japanese burdock salad with shimeji mushrooms with thick sesame dressing

シメジとごぼうサラダ・ごまドレッシング