Our Adventures in Japan
Kat & Satoshi's eating and traveling adventures around Japan (and sometimes Hawaii)
Wednesday, May 18, 2022
reminiscing
Tuesday, May 17, 2022
banh xeo
It is a fun word to say...ban-say-oh!
Somehow I thought it was made with eggs, but looking online, this is only made with rice flour, coconut milk, turmeric and some water.
I used this recipe and cut it down to make 2 crepes.
Adapted from the internet, makes 2 crepes
42 grams mochiko
14 grams flour
1/2 teaspoon turmeric
water
66 milliliter milk
coconut oil
Mix and let the batter sit in the refridge for at least 3 hours.
Heat oil in a pan and swirl in 1 ladle of batter to make 1 thin crepe
Add your filling, and cover to steam, fold the crepe in half, repeat to make another crepe, serve.
NOTES: Originally this is supposed to be gluten and dairy free, but I didn't have rice flour and used mochiko.
Not sure, but I think using rice flour might make a difference as to how light the crepe comes out.
Also, I didn't have coconut milk and used regular milk.
When I cooked the crepe I used coconut oil so it would have a slight coconut fragrance.
I had some leftover gapao filling, so that is what I put into our banh xeo.
I know Thai filling, Vietnamese crepe, still it was delicious.
You are supposed to cut off pieces of the crepe and wrap it in some lettuce, but we just ate it with wilted spinach.
I think I need to thin out the batter a little more, but we thought it was delicious.
I'll make this again and make sure we have lettuce to wrap it in.
Monday, May 16, 2022
tofu "cheese"
Recipe from Asajikan
200 grams firm tofu
2 chili peppers
2 cups olive oil
1 teaspoon salt
dried herbs: parsley, oregano, basil, rosemary
Set the tofu onto a paper towel with a weight on top to drain (at least 2 hours)
Cut into 1 centimeter squares and put into a 500 milliliter glass jar.
Add the chili peppers
Add the oil, salt and herbs.
Soak in refrigerator for at least 2 days.
Keeps for 5 days.
NOTES: I have a tofu container that has a removable strainer basket within the container, (which I bought at the 100 yen store many moons ago), so I put my tofu into this with some paper towel and a weight on top and had it in the refrigerator for about 2 hours.Then I cut the tofu into cubes and put it into jars.
I filled each one using only a total of 3/4 cup olive oil.
Then I added 3 shakes of this herb mix into each jar and used a total of 1/2 teaspoons of salt.It is not as firm as the marinated feta I have bought in the past and doesn’t taste like cheese, but it is a very inexpensive way to make this saladFriday, May 13, 2022
this and that
First time catching these electricians changing two transformers at the same time.
Thursday, May 12, 2022
tuesday
I thought he might be bullying the sparrows that live in the electric pole, but I saw something that looked "wet" and that was kinda swaying...it kinda looked like a bone of sorts...
The thing that is hanging down does look like bones, maybe of a frog?! ew
But the dark thingy that is smushed into the metal shaft above kinda looks like a bird or as Satoshi said, looks like "doo doo".
Whatever it is, I hope it won't fall on me when I pass under it...
or you will be able to hear me scream where you are if it does....ha!
Wednesday, May 11, 2022
reminiscing
Anyway, I didn’t have anything to post, so I manually looked up these, and thought you might enjoy reminiscing...
One year ago...we were checking out Bakurry
Eight years ago, it was the first Mother's Day without mom.
Fourteen years ago we shared this article.
Tuesday, May 10, 2022
noriten
Pieces of nori that have a fried crunchy batter on one side.
Most times there is a sweet salty sauce on it too.
I was surprised to see it in the pre-made food (sozai/okazu) area of the supermarket.
We had this as part of our pupu party during Golden Week.