Obento by C.Takeru

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Today’s Obento “Crab mixed Obento”.

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Just found frozen crab in Fridge, so making boiled crab mix brown rice. There is “Ohitashi” in today’s obento as well. Ohitashi is traditional food soaking vegetables into dashi soup. Today I am using Dashi Soy sauce as dashi soup by diluting it by water. Dashi Soy sauce is really convenient seasoning.  https://c-takeru.jp/en/foodware/dashi-soy-sauce-2/

Brown Rice with 28 grains, boiled crab

Japanese pepper Chicken Ball

Salad Spinach Ohitashi

Hiroshima Green

Mini Tomato

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It’s June from today. Long rainy season is coming. 

In Yakuzen it has been believed “dampness” is causing bad condition, and Corn, Broad Bean or Red Bean is eliminating the dampness. The foods in season and food to balance conditions seems almost equal. 

Today’s obento has young corn. Grill the young corn with skin and added some japanese pepper miso on it. Also there are dried horse mackerel, octopus, and zucchini which all are in season. 

Brown Rice with 28 grains, grilled dried horse mackerel

Octupus, shiso genoveze

Grilled Zucchini

Grilled Young corn

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The season of watercress is getting over. Obento of watercress, seaweed and meat. Octopus is mixed with green of Japanese pepper. Shimeji Mushroom is grilled by Gridiron of Tsujiwa. https://c-takeru.jp/en/cookware/gridiron-2/

Brown Rice with 28 grains, Seaweed, Watercress and meat

Octopus with green of Japanese pepper

Grilled Zucchini

Grilled Shimeji Mushroom

Mini Tomato

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Obento of dried horse mackerel, with Dashi rolled egg. Using diluted “Dashi Soy sauce” of Kamada as the “dashi” of rolled egg. Details of “Dashi Soy sauce” can be found here:

https://c-takeru.jp/en/foodware/dashi-soy-sauce-2/

Brown Rice with 28 grains, dried horse mackerel

Rolled Egg with Dashi

Boiled snap ground peas with sesami sauce

Turnip with Red Shiso

Mini Tomato

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Obento of stir-fried egg plant with oyster sauce, using Kesennuma Milky Oyster Sauce. It has mild sweetness naturally and no need to use sugar. Introduce Kesennuma Oyster Sauce in the blog: 

http://c-takeru.jp/en/foodware/kesennuma-milky-oyster-sauce/

Brown Rice with 28 grains, dried young sardine and Japanese pepper

Stir-fried egg plant with oyster sauce

Kale, Agrio Orio

Mini Tomato

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Brown rice with young sardine and sakura shrimp. I might have same one last night, but probably it is memory error. I heard sakura shrimp in Suruga Bay are poor-catch this year. 

Brown Rice with 28 grains, young sardine and sakura shrimp. 

Chicken ball with Japanese pepper

Grilled Broad Beans

Seaweed Tsukudani (hidden)

Mini Tomato

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Referring to the recipe in a cook book, made dandan noodle like nyu-men (somen noodle in soup). The black powder on the soup is kuro-shichimi by Hara-ryokaku in Kyoto, which is good with nyumen or fish dishes. For somen I am using whole grains one of “Shimabara”, which is a bit thick and can be used as alternative of pasta. Good after drinking Sake!

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Can’t wait! Wanna drink now! Quick nibbles. Adding wasabi into dashi soy sauce, and put it onto cut cream cheese. Sprinkling dried bonito on it. 2 mins! Good with Sake or white wine!

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Following last week, grilled dried horse mackerel and mixed it with brown rice. Our “Nesting” life will be over, hopefully next week. Obento will get back it’s functionality and will be taken out soon. 

Brown Rice with 28 grains, mixed with grilled dried horse mackerel

Rolled egg with dashi and seaweed

Stir fried sweet bell pepper and seaweed

Potato Salad with smoked pickles

Mini Tomato

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Using the last bamboo shoot in Miso, and mixed with brown rice. Also made chicken ham last night, adding Japanese pepper miso that I got from the to-go package of my favorite store. 

Brown Rice with 28 grains, mixed with bamboo shoot in miso.

Chicken ham

Grilled asparagas with Yuzu peel

Seaweed, tsukudani

Mini Tomato

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It’s rainy today. The rain in this season makes fresh green beautiful and it’s not bad (as long as I don’t go out today). Today’s obento is rainy Japanese pepper festival. Young dried sardine and Japanese peppers are in brown rice. The chicken ball has Japanese pepper inside. 

Brown Rice with 28 grains, mixed with young dried sardine and Japanese pepper

Chicken ball with Japanese pepper

Potato salad with cream cheese and smoked pickels

Swiss chard, agrio olio

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Grilled shimeji mashroom again. These days I grilled something every morning with grid - my favorite as its easy and tasty. Watercress is also in season now, so mixed with meet and seaweed. 

Brown Rice with 28 grains

Seaweed and meat, watercress

Grilled Salmon

Grilled mashroom with Yuzu peel

Mini Tomato

Snap garden peas, sesame sauce

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これをつまみと認めると、晩ご飯は結局全部つまみじゃんすか、って言われそうですがその通り。煮込みハンバーグです。市販のデミグラスソースに、気仙沼オイスターソースを隠し味に入れています。

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Boiled bamboo shoot with Dashi, and soaked in Miso for 5 days. Now picked them and mixed with brown rice. The season of bamboo shoot is getting over. See you next year! 

Brown Rice with 28 grains, mixed with bamboo in Miso

Grilled Salmon

Grilled mashroom with Yuzu peel

Mini Tomato

Spinatch, Aglio Olio

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It’s like a green Obento. But it’s OK - now we are new green season. Egg cake has Aosa (Okinawa seaweed) inside. Early Zuccini is grilled on Grill Pan, and marinade with salt, olive oil and Yuzu peel.

Brown Rice with 28 grains

Meat and Seaweed, green peas.

Egg cake with Dashi and Aosa 

Name Take

Grilled Zuccini

Seaweed Tsukudani (hidden)

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Japanese Pepper is coming in season. I am addicted to Japanese Pepper - Japanese Pepperer. This year, I am expecting to get a bunch of Japanese pepper, and cook Japanese Pepper Miso, Japanese Pepper Oil, and Japanese Pepper salted boil. I found small shaped dried sardine baby, so cooked with salt boiled Japanese Pepper I bought in market. 

Brown Rice with 28 grains

Dried Sardine baby and Japanese Pepper. 

Grilled Spanish Mackerel, Yuan. 

Grilled Paprila, soaked in Ponzu

Plum Pickles

Seaweed Tsukudani

Salsoka Komarovii with Tuna, soy sauce and mustard

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Putting Salmon Flake cooked with sweet Sake on the brown rice, that I made last Sunday. I also cooked butterbur Miso last Sunday. Using it with boiled potato today. Smells like spring. 

Brown Rice with 28 grains

Salmon Flake

Smoked Chicken and Quail’s egg

Mustard Spinach in Dashi

Mini Tomato

Butterbur Miso and boiled Potato