tomato garlic toast

Tomatoes and garlic make a perfect match on toast!

was what i discovered this morning. put some tomatoes on ham and cheese, sprinkled some garlic over and toasted. was good~

plus kaya cheese toast which we havent had for some time. last bottle!

Dinner was

okonomiyaki in the pan,

yam with chicken & prawns sticky sauce

from Harumi Kurihara weekly cooking show on Sukkiri tv

ginger and shiitake simmered white cabbage. nothing else added except fishcake slices, salt and pepper!~ was amazed at how tasty this was without shoyu or any broth granules added!

okonomiyaki

made with okara and grated mountain yam added

the last time i made this was when i bought okara (soybean pulp) from the tofu seller and didnt know what to do with so much, i thought of various ways to add them into my cooking.

Okara is basically the pulp that remains when tofu is made, some tofu sellers sell them to the pig farm, some give it to customers for free.

And usually a pack of it contains an amazing amount.

the boom here among the health conscious is using okara as like you would use flour.

so, replacing 90% of the flour in okonomiyaki, makes a huge difference to the nutritional value of this otherwise flour filled pancake.

i spotted this recipe in some food magazine last month, and thought, hey, i feel like making that again! i think okonomiyaki at home is always easier on the stomach since i dont use oil like how the teppanyaki restaurant does. =) ahh... another guilt free treat we had today! ^.^