Midsummer

Now Japan is hot, humid.
It's too hot to come up with what to prepare. :(

Today's are easy.

Boiled corns
Tofu with ginger, Japanese basil, soysource
Roasted Japanese eggplants (with same herbs of tofu )
Rice

IRI DOFU: Cooked Tofu

IRI DOFU: Cooked Tofu, tuna, eggs, and leek. seasoned with soy source, black pepper, and salt.
Boiled green vegitable with sesame
Cooked Beens
Rice

Sashimi again

Sashimi of sardines. with ginger, leek, Japanese basil.

Yesterday, I've bought a knife for fish.Since I've felt stress with using cheap, multipurpose knife for preparing fish.

This new one works well especially for cutting backbones. Awesome.  :)

Here is Kappabashi, Tokyo. Famous strip for kitchen tools and gadgets. I've found fish knife here.

Really interesting for walking and browsing.

Steamed chicken with Leek sauce

Steamed chicken with Leek souce
Salad of NAGAIMO (Japanese yam) and SERI (Japanese parsley)
Stir-fly of Lotus roots
Rice

Cooked sardines

Cooked sardines (seasoned with soysource, sugar,  and Umeboshi (salty plums))
Cooked vegitable
Rice

Sashimi

I've bought these fresh sardines at fish market. And tried to make them Sashimi for the first time in my life!
It took much time...however, tastes good. :)

Stir-fry

Stir-fried pork(thin-sliced pork belly), Eringi mushrooms, and bean sprouts
Boiled vegitable
IKURA (Salmon roe, was put in soysource and Sake)