Anna N

Denture cleaning tablet.

Bacon, tomato and (duck) egg rice bowl.

There is more than one way to (con)fuse cuisines.

I was of the same opinion until I bought a can of beets from the variety store which is across the road from me. They were not quite as white as the driven snow but not too far off.

It is not my favourite book on Japanese cuisine. It needed dozens more photographs to be truly useful and a little more acknowledgement that even in Japan the times they are a changing. But I do have a level of simpatico with her. I wish I could’ve halted Danish cuisine’s forward match. The Danes apparently thought otherwise.

Curry udon.

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I have the hard copy but really wanted the Kindle version.

Rolled omelet with bacon and cheese, some tiny mixed tomatoes that were a gift and a dressing of ponzu and Kewpie mayonnaise.

Thanks. Looks like I should be stashing my pennies for the fall! Oh wait ... we no longer have pennies. Well my nickels then.

Supposedly.

Today @Kerry Beal and I headed out to Woodbridge, Ontario to exchange one of Kerry’s Cuisinart Steam Ovens. Its fan had stopped working. We also stopped to pick up some packing cases for @Alleguede. We met up with him and his sister at Sushi Wa to effect an exchange. With four of us at lunch instead of the usual two photographs were rather neglected. Edamame and a small sampling of a noodle dish were provided as a complimentary starter. (We had made inroads into the edamame before we remembered to take photograph and had demolished the noodle dish.) We shared the spicy calamari but had finished all but this little bit before we remembered about the photo. @Alleguede and his sister had the chicken teriyaki Bento box. Kerry had the beef teriyaki Bento box. I had the Tempura Bento box.

Lucky me. Today more corn found its way to my house from the Farmers’ Market along with other vegetables and fruits and some Cotija cheese. Dinner was a no-brainer—Mexican Street Corn Salad.

Tamagoyaki (duck egg) and a salad.

Leftover chicken teriyaki and cucumber pickle.

Thanks. First time I had used this one. 1:1:1. soy:sugar:sake.

Chicken teriyaki on rice with lettuce and tomato.

It has been a while due to vacations both mine and my son-in-law’s but today I decided it was time to get back in the saddle again. Nice thought. No white sugar. Refused to be defeated and found a recipe from Land O Lakes that doesn’t require any white sugar. Plain peanut butter cookies.

. Inspired by a gift of a dozen duck eggs yesterday. Egg, bacon, shiitake mushrooms, tomatoes and fried bread soldiers. The bacon was brought down from Manitoulin and is from Max Burt Farms. Here.

Not quite true. If you microwave it in the husk there is enough moisture there that it basically steams.

Do you really mean you’ll have a zombie or you’ll be a zombie?

Chaliapin steak and tomato salad. The steak is said to have been developed by the chef of the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo. In 1936 the Russian opera star was visiting Japan and is said to have asked for an extremely tender steak that he could eat while suffering a toothache. Truth or fiction the steak was very tasty. Here’s one version. The tomato was a gift and I wanted to make something special of it. @Shelby— I suspect you might enjoy this treatment of a PEELED tomato.

@Kerry Beal dropped in this morning on her way home from a 24 hour shift in Dunnville and brought me fresh farm eggs, both chicken and duck, and two ears of corn from the Dunnville Farmers’ Market. Decisions. Decisions. The corn won. Here is the first cob. The second followed in short order. Delicious.

Must be an acquired “killin’ ” taste.

I bet you will enjoy it!

Chicken nanban. Similar to this. Definitely worth repeating.