Black bean sesame burgers and waxy squash red SE-Asian soup

Beans patties and a soup with flavors of Thailand in company of its exotic rice.

The patties are a random mix : boiled kuromame (soy black beans), black sesame seeds (pasted), grated garlic and ginger, minced onion, green chili and black miso. A little potato starch to bind. Pan-fried. Glossed with sweet chili sauce. On the place, yellow bell pepper and mitsuba stalks.

Boiled cubes of tougan (waxy squash) and tororo kombu seaweed.

I have added red Thai curry paste and fresh coriander to the broth.

Add Thai jasmine rice. That’s a yummy lunch.

Chilled shirataki noodles with black gomadare sauce

And advantage of shirataki (konnyaku noodles) is unlike other noodles, you don’t need to boil them again then chill. All you need is rinsing them in clear water.

The 4 elements of my dish.

A : rinse the shirataki noodles.

B : cut cubes of fresh tofu.

C : prepare veggies like bell pepper, red chili, goya, onion and coriander.

D : make the dressing.
Gomadare is the classic sesame dressing. Today it’s black as I’ve used black sesame and the black douchi :

Douchi, Chinese fermented black soy beans.

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.

Cauli-sesame

Cauliflower and sesame.
A delicious purée that changes from the classic potato version. It’s extremely creamy nutty and later, it’s very light in your tummy. Ideal for lunch on day behind your desk.

Cauliflower boiled till it’s half-cooked, plus home-made roast sesame tahini, salt, pepper.

Roasted sesame seeds on top.

Sprouts of water morning glory around.

Silver fish and golden yuzu

An easy meal, very light and totally simple… Yep, in this season, that’s precious. Veggies and fish, with salt.

Revived with the tartness of citrus juice.

The veggies are stir-fried green beans, mini-daikon radish and carrots, with very little garlic. The fish is called さごじ sagoshi. It’s the same species as sawara (with miso here). The name is different to indicate it ist smaller. Japanese Spanish mackerel. It’s also simply stir-fried.