Nasu no agebitashi / fried eggplant dipped in a shoyu sauce

Ingredients A. eggplants 3-4
cucumber 1
B. soy sauce(1-2tea spoon)
sugar(1 pinch)
bonito powder


1. Fry diced eggplants for about 5 min.
2. Cut notches into the cucumber so that it can absorb the sauce.
3. Boil 1 cup of water and put B into it.
4. Put 2 into 3.

okara ( leftover pulp from tofu making process, after soy beans are pressed)

Ingredients
A. okara1 bag
age(fried tofu)
chikuwa1
carrot 1/2 stick
burdock 1/2 stick
konnyaku 1/4
leek 1 stick
B. sugar 5 table spoons
salt 1 "
shoyu2 "
1. Firely chop all of the ingredients from A except for the okara.
2. Fry the ingredients from 1.
3. Add okara into the mixture and fry.
4 .Stir in B.
5. Add cut leek to 4 and mix.

harumaki (spring roll )

Ingredients
A.bamboo shoot (1/4~1/2)
carrot (1/2)
shiitake(Japanese mushroom) 3
leek ( 1 or 2 sticks )
harusame 1/2 bag
pork 150g
organic rice paper 8-10
katakuri powder 2 tea spoon
salt, pepper, garlic (1/2 clove)
B.soy sauce ( 3-5 table spoons)
sugar (3 table spoons)

C. hot water (1/2 bowl)

1. Fry pork with garlic, salt and pepper.
2. Cut bamboo shoot, carrot, shiitake and leek lengthwise.
3. Combine 2 to 1 and fry on medium.
4. Put harusame into the hot water.
5. Remove harusame from hot water.
6. Mix 5 with 3.
7. Dissolve the katakuri powder in water.
8. Pour 7 into the mixture to thicken it.
9. Divide the mixture into 8-10 pieces.
10.Put one piece of the mixture on each piece of rice paper and roll them up.

carrot & ingen

Ingredients
A. carrot 1
kidney beans 1 bag
B. miso 2 table spoons
sugar 2 table spoons
C. according to your taste < ground sesame 2 table spoons
< mustard 1 tea spoon

1. Chop carrot and beans into about 1 cm cubes
2. Boil them until soft
3. mix with B

Ginger pork for 4

1. make sauce with a half cup of soy sauce, ground 1/2 ginger.

2. fry pork , add 1(sauce) into the pan, and turn off the heat.

Just it!

Idea of simple salad dressing------today's is oil and vinegar with ground garlic, salt, and black pepper.

Easy Sukiyaki~cook in a pot for4

Ingredients

A. lotus root (a half)
carrot (1)
shiitake(Japanese mushroom)
(several)
string shaped konnyaku (1 bag)
leak ( 1 or2)
hu (several)
hakusai(chinese cabbage) (1/4)
B. beef ( as you like )
C. water (2 cups), soy sauce(3-5spoons), sugar(3-5spoons)

1. boil beef with 2 spoons of soy sauce, sugar, and pick them up in a plate.
2. boil A with 3 spoons of soy sauce, sugar.
add 1 (beef),turn off.
3. dip them into raw egg when you eat.

Nasu no shigiyaki (fried eggplant)






Ingredients

eggplants (3or4)
sugar(1 spoon)
miso(soybean paste)(2 spoons)

1. fry eggplants with a little oil
2. add miso, sugar
3. turn down the heat
4. mix them

Autumn Surprise! I've got Matsutake from my brother(actually, it's for my mom).
More than several years have passed since I ate them!
In Japan, Matsutake is the symbol of autumn and it is the most expensive Japanese food.

My favorite cuisine is simple, just to grill and pour soy sauce on them.