Some people tell me I eat like a rabbit, which could be true at times, but don’t worry because I do eat other things than vegetables. I post vegetable dishes frequently because I tend to have abundant stock of vegetables at home, and I must say sometimes over stock of it that I need to…
Category: Salad
Learnings from making lunches
This past winter, I made an effort to make and bring lunches to work because I was tracking my macros and wanted to eat healthier and eat less restaurant food, which I was often opting for lunch and dinner (and occasionally store-bought breakfast). Living in Tokyo with almost unavoidable convenience to dine out in high quality at…
Easy prep olives and cottage cheese endive appetizer (Cottage cheese substitute also on the blog)
I just did my wikipedia research and found that endive has more than ten names… what? That is a lot of names to memorize for one vegetable. So I chose to pick up endive (in Japan, they call these chicory) for a home lunch gathering since I wanted to bring something in (… and to…
Health through colors
Health – is one of the biggest themes for me in 2017. I always write down my new year resolutions, and I have maybe 7-8 agenda points. Health is always on it as food, nutrition, physical, mental health. That’s why I want to make myself more knowledgeable in this field, so I not only take…
Savory French Toast at Grand Lake Kitchen, Oakland California
I was in Oakland, California for a day and a bit a few weeks ago, and I knew that I would be grabbing lunch in the area. I had a Mexican dinner planned and also another meal to discover for myself, so I went on Yelp to find the good eats and found this savory…
Homemade Summer Red Quinoa Salad
I’m not very good when it comes to measuring ingredients. I often ballpark it by eyes or I rely on my tastebuds, so it makes it very difficult for me to write up a recipe. What I do for inspiration is “rest” my eyes on food Instagrams, I look at the ingredients list or photos in these…
Yuzu Citrus Dressed Cabbage, Avocado, and Wild Rice Salad
I promise I don’t make anything too intricate. What I make at home are all so simple, maybe too simple. I concocted and uncovered this ultimate dressing I made from my friend’s gift of yuzu kosho (aka peppered yuzu, or chili with yuzu flavor from Kyushu) that is as easy as putting together the chili…
Homecooked Korean-Mexican adzuki salad
This was exactly what I needed the other day, something spicy, colorful, and rich in nutrients. It was super easy to make (again) with whatever that was in the fridge (yet again). I had loads of frozen adzuki beans because I had been cooking a lot of it, so I needed a way to use it…
Quick and easy salmon veggie bowl
Sometimes you simply have a hodgepodge of ingredients you have to put together for a quick meal. To be honest, I don’t have a recipe in mind most nights I cook, I find whatever is in my fridge to make whatever I can. Here is a bowl I put together that has heaps of nutritional balanced…
Summer tomato, zucchini, coriander asian salad
Summer is approaching and that means summer veggies will gain its sweetness and all the goodness will be available…! So here’s a quick and easy tomato, zucchini, and coriander salad. Zucchini is a squash and like cucumber, it has a property of cooling down your body once ingesting. I like my zucchini raw, which also…
Asparagus quinoa salad
Asparagus is in SEASON (actually it’s been in season for a while now). My mom got a good bunch of it sent from northern Japan, and I found some quinoa in my mom’s pantry, so I put those together. And yes, I like to find good stuff in my mom’s kitchen… 🙂 I cooked quinoa…
Pickled new onion (recipe) Mexican and Asian Salad
It’s in season for newly harvested vegetables, and the two root vegetables that I love seeing at the grocery store at this time are onions and potatoes. Japanese language calls them “new” onion and “new” potatoes. I remember back in college, I wondered if I would be able to eat my mom’s pickled fresh onion,…
Plates of Art 