Food Recipes and Blogs By a Japanese Mum in the UK
Very quick and easy salad recipe. My kids eat it without complaining so it’s a treat for me! If you can’t find a tin of crab meat, you can use tuna instead. Prep Time: 5 mins Total Time: 8 mins Yield: For 4 people as small side dish About 10cm cucumber 1 small carrots 1 small tin of Crabmeat 2 tbs sweet corn Seasoning 1 tsp lemon juice 2 tbs Mayonaise (Japanese one
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One of my favourite vegetables is the lotus roots. It has such a crunchy texture that makes noise when you bite into it. It’s a root vegetable that eaten very often in Japan but unfortunately, they are only available from oriental food stores in the UK at the moment. This Japanese style of cooking, Kinpira きんぴら, implies to a pan-fried and simmered method of cooking and usually seasoned with soya sauce, mirin
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It has been the easiest growing and harvesting experience after planting the seeds directly into the prepared soil later in April in 2017. Now in early June, we have enjoyed the young beetroot leaves in our salads a few times already. Kids enjoyed picking the leaves and pulling the weeds around it. Of course, they do not have any complains eating them too. I believe one way of the easiest way to
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