If only I had a pair of asian plates, the dishes of this meal would’ve been perfect! See, I had all the other Japanese plates for Japanese food, other than the eggplant ones!

The eggplants are from my friends, the Sy family! Since it was so fresh, the best way to ea it is the most simple way, like my mom told me!

I’ve been wanting to post this for a few weeks but somehow the wordpress (this blog website) was not letting me post any pictures! So I have some more food pictures I took!

And this, I had craved for a while! Cold noodle with sesame seed sauce! The usual toppings are, meat, cucumber, eggs, but for us, we had, salted onions, cucumber, tomatoes, simmered dried mushroom, Yuba (bean curd), seaweed, and edible spicy oil! Yum yum yum!

And this!

I got the Korean miso and that’s what I made this miso soup with. I’m still trying to make the miso soup that we get from Korean restaurant that has a little kick to it!

Thanks for looking at my fooooood! :)

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and new soup bowls! :) Now I need more bigger plates that can go with those! Since all I have is more Western design plates and, clearly, they look out of place! :P

This is what we eat when I don’t have time to cook. I made the kelp thingy (Kombu no Nimono) and leafy thingy (Nanohana no Goma-Ae) in the morning, and I just made miso soup and Tofu steak with mushroom sauce when I got home! Numnumnummmmm

I make the sesame sauce (that you see on the greens) just because I just want to eat the garlic chili sauce with it.

I made this Seaweed Namul, it’s very garlic-y but it’s really good! And I also made this Gluten dish, (Kuruma-fu to Celery no Nimono), my new favorite!

And after we eat this, we eat corn and other desserts. :P

And Kurosuke always attacks me eating corns, I don’t know how he loves corns so much, he loves corns more than I do!

Big cat / Small cat. Sleepy cats on a cloudy day!

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I have always loved collard greens, a little too much. I wrote this recipe like 2 years ago on a different blog, but that one is really hard to search! So, I’m going to share this here!

Vegan Collard Greens that I love so so much

Ingredients:

• Collard Greens- About 2 or 3 pound: Wash well and cut off the bottom stems and cut in small pieces
• Onion- 1: minced
• Garlic- 6 cloves: minced
• Oil of your choice-about 1 Tbsp

For flavoring, you can just use the ones you have at home, though these might be obscure for non-Asian houseghold?  Not having all these isn’t a problem!

• Dried red pepper-about 2:wash or wipe with wet towel
• Kelp powder “Kombu-cha”- about 1 tsp
• Veggie broth powder if you have it- about a 1 tsp
• Vinegar-1 Tbsp
• Bay Leaves- 2 or 3
• Salt
• Pepper
• Soy sauce (Just a little  bit, it’s a secret flavoring)

You can add more stuff you think would be good, adjust the amount of salt by tasting it. But as you cook for  like an hour, collard green gives pretty good broth. Ahhh soooo good!

1. Heat up oil (I use olive oil) and cook the minced garlic till you can smell yumminess of garlic. Then add the minced onions. Cook them til they are clear color.
2. Add the greens and red pepper. Stir til they are coated with oil and looks cooked (it becomes very small amount)
3. Add water as much to cover the whole leaves. But you keep adding water as you keep cooking.
4. Add the flavoring: Kelp powder, Veggie broth powder, bay leaves, sat and pepper, and a little bit of soy sauce, and simmer for like a few hours. Add water often!

Eat it with hot sauce!

This is how we eat, when I cook collard greens, I want more country cooking to go with it! :)

And I though, “Hm, didn’t I make more food than this….”

Oh, I did make this cold corn soup with soymilk too!

What happened is, I love eating corns for dessert, and Whitney got me like 6 fresh corn from Whole Foods. I love corns from whole foods. I feel like I ate them every night, and the corn are back at Whole Foods! How exciting!

But I had 2 corns from the grocery store near us that I got last week, so we needed to start usinbg corns before they go bad! Then this dinner became very corn-party-ish.  :P

I missed you, corns!

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First, Vegan Veggie pizza. We tried this pizza dough from WHOLE FOODS. It had lots of different seeds even though the ingredients didn’t say. Well, we liked all the seeds in it! :)

I always try not to put too much veggies, and always end up saying, “I guess I could’ve put less”. :P

And then, I made Vegan mapo Tofu, and Hot and sour soup. You can buy mapo tofu that’s already made at a store and you can find vegan ones, too but I like mine better :P Healthier too! And I also like my hot and sour soup better! Very easy!

I hadn’t cooked the whole meal lately, but, I’m back on it!

I have new favorite green leaves! It’s this thin leafy veggie that I got in chinatown, when I got it it was like purple but it turned all green by the time we ate them. I’ll see if I can get the name of that some other time.

Getting low on groceries!

…Are we eating out tomorrow, whitney?? BTW, I have Kiki on my lap and Kurosuke by my side right now. Love it!

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