A quick dinner last night! A summer vegetable gratin, moyashi topped with the ume sauce I've made before, eggplant pickled in vinegar, and a dish made from okara. It's kind of a strange twist on a typical Japanese recipe, but I like it very much. I also had okahijiki with naga-imo again. This time I served it with a vinegar sauce, and added a secret ingredient: a touch of plum vinegar. It was very nice.

The naga-imo and okahijiki. The moyashi and ume sauce.

And the okara!
Breakfast yesterday morning: okara, vinegar-pickled eggplant, and a mix of spicy pickled cauliflower, carrots, and cucumber.


A close-up of the spicy pickles. They're quite nice. Dinner a few days ago: chawan-mushi. Since it's just me, I buy the ingredients to make a dish once and end up having to make it several times to use up everything I've purchased.