Pesto and pop Eden salad

That’s a pretty crunchy lunch. That’s all lightness but that was very filling. I don’t think these pink flowers are edible. They decorate South-Asian dish. Their presence gives a paradise dream touch to any dish. I picked a box on sale, and I’ve build my jungle around them.

Starting with a bunch of fresh basil.

Let’s pound a pesto in the mortar : basil, sesame, garlic, salt. Plus : olive oil, lemon juice.

Rosy spring cauliflower.

Other raw veggies : new onion, yellow bell pepper, cucumber, favas (broad beans).

The raw vegetables marinated one hour in the pesto.

Place the veggies on a bed of baby leaf salad and more basil leaves.

Add freshly roasted pop corn on top. Add flowers to decorate.

Double corn brunch waffle

Not much effort to prepare this complete meal.
Menu : savory waffles, natto-kimchi, drink salad and coffee jelly.

The particularity is these waffles have a corn bread flavor due to cornmeal batter, and some corn kernels inside…

And also some greens…

That’s a standard (eyeballed into the blender) waffle batter, except it’s half-flour and half-grits (coarse corn meal). Flavored with rosemary, garlic and chili. In the waffle maker, I added : frozen corn kernels, fava beans and raw green bell pepper.

Crusty and golden. Bring kimchi and natto.

A romaine salad getting too soft…into the blender with 1/2 grapefruit, a ts of grass wheat powder. Cinnamon on top. It had a refreshing bitterness.

Prepared the coffee agar jelly the day before. That takes one minute.

Served with veg cream and a little kurozato black sugar.

Chicken drumstick takikomi gohan

Another meal prepared in 5 minutes. I used the rice-cooker as a slave and frozen veggies for the side dish.
Usually “takikomi gohan” (rice cooked with stuff) is made with dices of ingredients and served as a side. With whole drumsticks and I got a main dish.

classic takikomi recipe

Chicken, rice, onion, ginseng, red chili, mushrooms. Plus diced broccoli stalks. Seasoning : soy sauce, salt and mirin.

Before and then… With the takikomi program of the rice-cooker.

I had kept aside the broccoli florets and a few decorative shimeji mushrooms. I added them on top and put the cooker on “keep hot mode” a few minutes, just the time to steam them :

Ready !

Triple grain mix : green peas, sweet corn and chick peas. With a goma-dare dressing made of pounded sesame, black rice vinegar, soy sauce, garlic and a little sugar.