I've been eating quite simply for the past month. Homemade yogurt with cinnamon and fruit in the morning, noodles or onigiri for lunch, and then my main meal at dinner. I've been trying to be "mostly" vegan (having trouble giving up the yogurt). I haven't really been taking photos of my dinner anymore. Usually I have rice (which I eat with seaweed), miso soup, a chunk of tofu, and a few vegetable side dishes. Today I made rice and tofu topped with scallions and ginger (hiyayako), cabbage salad with sesame dressing, braised satsuma imo (a white sweet potato), and yurine (lily root).


The lily root is excellent, rich and gooey. I think I over-braised it a bit, but it was still delicious. I topped it with ao-nori and sesame seed. I hope I find these again before I leave--I really loved it. So rich and succulent.

Dinner tonight. An apple, three sparrow eggs with sesame salt, a carrot salad, a pepper saute, an unidentified green vegetable that was on sale at the supermarket (served with soy sauce, and whatever it was, it was organic and came with a caterpillar), a daikon in a spicy kochu jang sauce, nagaimo tsukimono, and a salad. The main dish was nagaimo and kabu (radish) steaks.



The pepper dish and the carrot salad.
The sparrow eggs with sesame salt and the carrot salad again.