Washism

Okaasan and her fondness for making jams out of any fruit of the season, we brought back a bottle of apple honey jam and decided to make muffins out of it.

Apple honey sesame muffins with a cream cheese centre

I dont know why but i was craving chicken potatoes stew mum style, so dinner tonight was...

Chicken & potatoes shoyu based stew with shiitake

After so many cream based dishes and rich gravied stews like coq au vin, i just wanted something shoyu based with my dose of chicken and potatoes this week.

Using the golden 4:1:1 ratio of japanese broth, shoyu and mirin, this stew has a wonderful light shoyu fragrance without the taste of shoyu being too strong.

ingredients were simply

chicken (a piece of thigh, lightly sprinkled with salt and pepper then thinly coated with flour)

onions (chopped roughly)

2 potatoes (each chopped into 3)

4 shiitake mushrooms

japanese broth 200ml

shoyu 50ml

mirin 50ml

Lightly brown the onions and chicken in a frying pan, add a dash of white wine of sake when fragrant.

Add the potatoes, mushrooms and pour in the broth, shoyu and mirin.

Cover with a drop lid and broil on low heat for 20min.

Voila =)

Spring cabbage is in season now and the green is so pretty i decided to do a light stir fry to preserve the colour...

Stir fried sweet spring cabbage with black fungus and crab surimi, (thats cucumber konbu pickles at the back)


lotus root soup

Its been some time since i had such a bad flu and my nose feels so violated...