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This weekend my husband made Shepherds Pie, a nice comforting oven dish of seasoned lamb mince topped with potato mash that we know from our years in the UK. 😋

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Today I finally got round to making use of some items from my winter Kokoro Care Package. I completely missed out on the opportunity for using these for customary Japanese New Year meals but of course that’s not a problem.

I served yuba osuimono (clear soup with tofu skin), kobumaki (kelp roll) and yuzu pickled rakkyo (Japanese spring onion) with grilled mackerel, a dipping sauce and rice. With some fresh carrot and spring onion this made for a very satisfying meal. Right now I’m also nibbling on the enormous rice cracker seasoned with soy sauce and kelp and a few pieces of dried kaki. Without fail all items are impeccable and delicious. 👌🏻🤪

My husband was saying afterwards that he’s always looking forward to our Japanese themed meals on Fridays as there are interesting new components every time a Kokoro parcel arrives. ☺️

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I made fish in beer batter with peas and oven roasted potato wedges for the men in the family. As I didn’t have enough potatoes I ended up preparing Japanese rice for myself and a red onion salad.

Without the salad the rice would have been boring but this way it was excellent and it worked well with the rest of the meal. 😋

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How to do teppanyaki without a teppan? We don’t own an electric hot plate but we have an excellent cast iron griddle frying pan for meat and another excellent frying pan that worked well for the vegetables. We also used, believe it or not, a sandwich maker to slowly fry the bell pepper pieces… 😅

I used a recipe from Just One Cookbook to give me guidance for what I had in the house. Where I live it’s easier around New Year than at other times to buy thinly sliced meat as it’s used for Raclette (which is popular at this time of year), I had three packs. I made rice (not sure this is part of teppanyaki normally but I needed rice!) and Yakiniku sauce and then prepared everything (white cabbage, bell pepper, carrot, mushrooms, spring onions, and even a couple of chillies) for frying.

At that point I realised that there is a reason why this is done on the dinner table, each person can do their own, so they can all it together. To manage the pressure I got myself a cooking assistant (our current visitor) and once about half of the frying was done we got the rest of the family into the kitchen to eat while we continued frying until everything was done so that we could eat too. It was still fun and also very yummy but I can see a teppan in my house in the future. 🤣

Oh and we managed to heat up the induction cooker so much that it threw a wobbly in between and we had to wait for it to cool down for a moment. 🤷🏼‍♀️ We only used 10 and 11 as settings and only two of the rings. 🤷🏼‍♀️🤷🏼‍♀️ Ah well.

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I’m always surprised at how fast this meal is in terms of preparation time, about 40 minutes altogether, yet it feels like something quite substantial. You might have recognised this, it’s the salmon fillets in a honey mustard sauce with tagliatelle again. So, so good! 😋

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One of my family’s favourite dishes since we started in our Japanese home cooking endeavour: sweet and savoury meat tofu on rice. It’s thinly sliced pork with crumbled tofu simmered in a donburi sauce.

I’m using breakfast bacon for this dish as this is a thinly sliced meat that’s easy for me to obtain.

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We found a great restaurant in Berlin Mitte with excellent food. I wanted something non-European and Middle Eastern cuisine sounded just perfect. I was very happy with what we got and will definitely try to come back to Lawrence on our next trip. 👌🏼👌🏼👌🏼

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When my son was little his absolute favourite meal for many years was what we called “pasta with salmon”, an easy affair of smoked salmon in a crème fraîche sauce with (almost hidden) tiny courgette pieces. In a way today’s meal was a variation of it and therefore got dubbed “pasta with salmon V2”, basically a grown-up version of what we used to eat once a week for many years.

For this dish I prepared salmon pieces (covered in a honey and mustard sauce) in the oven. In the meantime I boiled the tagliatelle and created a creamy sauce with tiny courgette pieces (a nod to the past). I added some pasta water and the boiled tagliatelle to the sauce. I should have added a little more pasta water to get more sauce but it was very yummy and really not difficult at all.

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I volunteered my husband to cook for us on some of his days off so that I can have some free time from chores too.

He prepared Yassa chicken for us which is a pale looking but tasty lemony chicken dish from Senegal. The Brussels sprouts (which were fine too) are not part of the recipe but have to go.

Tomorrow we’ll have the same, so no post then. 😅

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Our weekend meal (cooked by my husband) was roast chicken with creamy garlic and lemon accompanied today by sautéed garlic carrots. There was plenty of garlic! ☺️

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We had chicken sweet and sour made by my husband. He used quite a lot of hot sauce so it was spicy as well. Very yum but I think we need to take a break from deep fried food for a while now, two days in a row is just not healthy 😅

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This was by far the best fish in beer batter we’ve had since leaving the UK. There is no way you can buy this kind of thing ready made in the supermarket.

I followed a much more advanced recipe than last week and it really paid off. The cod was fluffy, the dough was light and crisp, just perfect.

I bought a can of Corona Extra beer for this, funny how that one is always available in our shop when everything else has gone. Could it be the name? 🤣

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Another attempt at Mabo Tofu, this time with soft silken tofu and served in a bowl. I can really recommend this dish to anyone who wants try homecooking Japanese food, it’s so easy to prepare.

The soft tofu really is quite different to natural tofu but I can’t say that I prefer one over the other, I’ll eat any kind of tofu. The main thing is that my guys ate this without complaints (even my son who is poorly with a cold and had to stay at home) as they don’t like when we have tofu too often. 😇

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My husband made an awesome pork neck roast that is done with potatoes and veg all in one dish. The only thing done separately is the sauce made from the juices and seasoned with mustard. 😋😋

On a gloomy autumn day this kind of food works really well. It was a lot of meat but it was so nice and juicy that we gobbled it all up over two days. 😆

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