Grilled fish, simply

An old fashion Japanese dinner.

Steamed daikon radish greens, with a little chrysanthemum.

That’s konnyaku flavored with aonori seaweed. It’s from the farmer market, it looks less processed than the one from the supermarket.

The sauce is very easy : sake kasu (sake lees) and umeboshi flesh, plus a little broth. The umeboshi is very salty, the sake kasu not at all, the mix is well balanced.

Grilled salted hokke fish.

Genmai brown rice.

Miso soup with lots of tofu.

Japanesed mudardara

Another version of adapted murdardara (the Middle-East rice lentil dish). I served it inside a Japanese meal that contained :

aka endomame (click here)

A kasujiru soup with kombu dashi (seaweed stock) as a base, onion, daikon and kabocha as items.

sake kasu and miso as flavoring.

I made it in the rice cooker like for this easy mudardara. The veggies today were kujo negi leeks, new ginger, onion, myoga, with cumin as main spice.

A sliced of grilled salted salmon :

Raw myoga, blanched komatsuna greens, blanched okra, fried tofu :

Willow leaf fish

Komochi shishamo. Shishamo smelts with their kids. The body is full of roes.

柳葉魚shishamo means literally “willow leaf fish”. That’s when they hang them for drying after salting that the image takes its sense. An Ainu legend says a man was complaining near the river that his daughter was suffering from hunger, and the water’s Gods heard him. They grabbed the branch of a willow, so a few leaves fell into the water and transformed themselves in fish.

I simply grilled them.

Konnyaku sashimi, with sweet chili sauce and sesame. Goya around.

Myoga. Other sides are mesclun salad and grated daikon radish.

Moonlight fish and sky bean rice : shio-yaki saba and sora-mame gohan

The moon is announcing rain ?
Let’s grill moon colored fish…
Soramame (sky bean) is the Japanese name of broad beans (favas).

In the rice cooker : soaked rice, a 1 tbs of mirin and the skins of the beans. So the rice is nicely flavored. Then I take away the skins and replaces with the green inside, add a pinch of salt, and let a few minutes in the steam.
My rice looks… dirty ? Well, it’s not white, it’s polished germinated rice, a healthier version of white rice.