Menu du jour mizuna : 13 Recipes


  • Recipe My Mizuna
    My Mizuna
    Though spring officially began two weeks ago, the cold weather and rain has made it seem anything but. This changed on Sunday when I bought my first spring salad greens! Mizuna is a slightly pepper mustard green, native to Japan. It is[...]
  • Recipe Getting to Know Mizuna
    Getting to Know Mizuna
    Mizuna leaves. AKA Xiu Cai, Kyona, Japanese Mustard, Potherb Mustard, Japanese Greens, California Peppergrass, Spider Mustard, etc. Yesterday I shared the first of my new vegetable discoveries from my local organic provider. The second[...]
  • Recipe Spaghetti al salmon tataki and mizuna
    Spaghetti al salmon tataki and mizuna
    A good one-plate dinner, with few ingredients, but really delicious. Spaghetti al dente, briefly sauteed in oil, garlic, a fragrant exotic chili pepper… Aji limo … then add mizuna leaves. I[...]
  • Recipe Bubbling Nabe
    Bubbling Nabe (1 vote)
    Very chickeny this time with chicken broth, pieces of chicken thigh & minced chicken balls. Then after we added cooked rice and egg to the leftover broth.
  • Recipe ??
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    Nabe night! This time chicken thigh pieces and tsukune balls, mizuna, hakusai and some really tasty fresh udon. Everything was dipped in a yuzu ponzu sauce before stuffing in face.
  • Recipe ? ??
    ? ??
    Nobody tell this little guy he’s in a nabe not an onsen ok?
  • Recipe Pinky Flesh
    Pinky Flesh
    I was hoping some beef would help my energy levels but it turns out I have been struck down by yet another Daycare Disease.
  • Recipe Nabe Italiano
    Nabe Italiano
    This type of nabe soup is a new one – and it’s a fusion that works well. Nice break in a week of multiple nabe!
  • Recipe Nutty Chookie
    Nutty Chookie
    Chucked in toaster oven. Rice done in rice cooker. Leftover pumpkin. Mizuna wilted in sesame oil.
  • Recipe Kuwai and l.o.
    Kuwai and l.o.
    These funny veggies are called kuwai in Japanese. The English name is arrow-head. I planned to cook them for New-Year but I had too many items so they found their way to a soup. A left-over soup : the broth is the marinade of[...]