Cold sesame noodles with cucumber and wakame

June 2, 2009 at 1:00 am | Tags: , , , , , , , | 3 Comments

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It’s getting a little too hot to eat warm food. Fortunately, these sesame-coated noodles are cold and refreshing. This preparation is vaguely Japanese-inspired, due to the wakame and soy sauce, but with a local twist of tahini. To the best of my knowledge, you can’t readily find tahini in Japan, because if you can, I’m not sure why our friends there asked us to bring a kilo of it with us when we came to visit. Continue reading Cold sesame noodles with cucumber and wakame…

Julienned vegetable salad with wakame seaweed

February 26, 2009 at 1:00 am | Tags: , , , , , , , | 3 Comments

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This dish, with the cucumbers, carrots and wakame, resembles something I once had at a Japanese restaurant, but the green papaya is my own addition. I happened to have one sitting around, since I’ve been aspiring to make a spicy Thai papaya salad pretty much since we returned from Thailand. The papaya doesn’t add much in the way of flavor, but it does have a crunchier, firmer texture than the other vegetables. For some reason, I really enjoy the texture of these vegetables sliced into ribbons — it’s more fun to eat that way. Continue reading Julienned vegetable salad with wakame seaweed…

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