Warm soup on a cold day is the best! 

It just feels so right and healing even when there is nothing wrong.

First snow day of the the winter for me sounded like the perfect day to have some warm sweet vegetable adzuki bean soup!

For Lunch/breakfast

Sweet Vegetable Adzuki Bean Soup

with Onions,Carrots,Squash,Cellery, Turnip Greens, Ginger,Adzuki Beans

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Hot Fresh Tofu 

(watch and learn how to make Tofu here)

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Blanched Napa Cabbage

Went to the farmers market to find these big white Hakurei Turnips. They are so sweet and delicous. and quite possibly my favorite vegetable. 

 For Lunch

Brown Rice cooked with White basamati Rice

(watch and learn how to make Brown Rice here)

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Roasted Sesame Seeds

(watch and learn how to make Roasted Sesame Seeds here)

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Adzuki Beans Cooked with Sweet Potato 

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Sautéed Turnip tops and bottoms 

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Arugula Salad with Baby Carrots and Bread Croutons 

Olive Oil, Scallion Lemon Dressing

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For Dinner

Brown Rice Pasta with Bok-Choy and Tofu

(watch and learn how to make Tofu here)

You don't see Adzuki beans very many places. which is crazy cause I think it is one of the best beans. Adzuki Bean soup can be healing and just feel like a bowl of comfort for me. Adzuki Beans go best with a nice sweet Squash I think.

For Lunch
Barley Rice
(watch and learn how to make Brown Rice here)
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Sauerkraut
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Blanched Vegetable Salad
Kale, Carrots,Cabbage
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Sautéed Hijiki with Burdock
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Adzuki Bean Soup

Feels like Spring is coming sooner every year up here in Alaska. today was above freezing all day, with huge puddles forming from the melting snow. It is one of the most exciting times of the year I think. where you can feel such change happening all around. 

It felt like a day to make a bunch of my favorite foods all in one meal!

For Lunch 

Udon and Shoyu Kombu Broth

(watch and learn how to make Udon here)

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Baked Squash and Tofu with Olive oil, Salt, Shoyu, and Mirin

(watch and learn how to make Tofu here)

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Pan Fried Mochi with Sweet Adzuki Bean Paste

(watch and learn how to make Mochi here)

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Blanched Vegetable Salad with Broccoli, Brussels Sprouts, Kale and Cucumber with a Scallion Umeboshi Dressing

The last couple of weeks I have been cooking lunches for my Dad who hasn't been feeling to well. It can be hard sometimes to cook for someone who doesn't really feel like they want to eat anything. so my cooking has started incorporating more foods that I don't personally eat. But for him I think it can be useful at this time like I have started to learn how to cook fish!

For Lunch 

Brown Rice with Adzuki Beans

(watch and learn how to make Brown Rice here)

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Roasted Pumpkin Seeds

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Tempura Squash, Carrots/Onion/Burdock Nests

(watch and learn how to make Tempura here)

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Blanched Cabbage and steamed Tofu

(watch and learn how to make Tofu here)

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Onion Cucumber Dill Pickles 

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For Lunch

Brown Rice

(watch and learn how to make Brown Rice here)

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Onion Cucumber Dill Pickles

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Steamed Squash with a blanched Umeboshi Cabbage Salad

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Arame cooked with caramelized Onions and Sesame Seeds, garnished with Scallions

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Baked Teriyaki Salmon with a Shoyu,Rice Syrup,Garlic,Ginger Teriyaki Sauce

 For the last month I have been living with my dad so I could cook for him. Which has been a big change. unfortunately I had to drop a lot of things in my life (like this blog) to adjust to the new routine. 

I have been really enjoying cooking in smaller quantities unlike normally cooking for the whole 30to 50 people in the community. I have been able to experiment more and that has been fun. 

And I want to share that with everybody again! 

For Lunch

Adzuki Bean Brown Rice

(watch and learn how to make Brown Rice here)

Garnished with Roasted Sesame Seeds

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Onion Shoyu Pickles

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Nori

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Kimpira made with Carrots, Burdock, and Ginger

(watch and learn how to make Kimpira here)

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Blanched Vegetable Salad with Cabbage, Radishes, and Collard Greens. 

with a Olive Oil, Lemon, salt Dressing. 

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Noodle shoyu Ginger Broth garnished with Cilantro

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For Dinner

Soba Noodle

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Vegetable stirfry with Onions,Cauliflower, Cabbage, and a bit of Wakame, and Kudzu to thicken it.

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Pan Fried Tofu

(watch and learn how to make Tofu here)

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Steamed Broccoli

 For Lunch

Left over Millet Vegetable cakes 

with 

Dill Tofu Sauce

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Nishime with Squash, Onions, and Carrots

(watch and learn how to make Nishime here)

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Blanched Collard Greens

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For Dinner

Adzuki Bean Rice with half Brown Rice and Half Sweet Rice

and Caramelized Onions mixed in at the end

(watch and learn how to make Brown Rice here)

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Sautéed Kale with scrambled Tofu 

(watch and learn how to make Tofu here)

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Salad with Lettuce, Arugula, and Blanched Carrots and Radishes, 

and a simple Lemon Shoyu Dressing 

For Lunch

Brown Rice

(watch and learn how to make Brown Rice here)

garnished with Scallions

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Cucumber Salad

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 Carrot Pickles

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Natto Miso 

(watch and learn how to make Natto here)

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Blanched Collard Greens

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Adzuki Bean Soup

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For Dinner

for the first time all by myself I made a Lasagna!

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with a roasted Tomato, Onion, Basil, Oregano, Shoyu, and Sea salt  Sauce 

layers with home made Seitan.

(watch and learn how to make Seitan here)

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and a Tofu Cabbage Corn mixed with Salt layer.

(watch and Learn how to make Tofu here)

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and of course Sheets of Lasagna Pasta 

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Garlic Bread

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Cucumber, Totsoi, Ice Berg Lettuce Salad with a Lemon Tahini Dressing

For Lunch
Brown Rice
(watch and learn how to make Brown Rice here)
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Onion Shoyu Pickles
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Blanched Cauliflower and Broccoli with a Tahini Lemon Dressing
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Tofu Miso Soup garnished with Kale
(watch and learn how to make Miso Soup here)
(watch and learn how to make Tofu here)
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For Dinner
Adzuki Bean Brown Rice
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Roasted and Ground Sesame Seeds
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Pressed Salad
(watch and learn how to make Pressed Salad here)
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Blanched Garden baby Daikon
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Onion Nishime with a Miso Sauce
(watch and learn how to make Nishime here)
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Miso Leek Condiment

 For Lunch

Brown Rice 

(watch and learn how to make Brown Rice here)

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Gomashio 

(watch and learn how to make Gomashio here)

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Onion Pickles 

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Adzuki Beans

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Kinpira with Carrots, Burdock, Rutabaga

(watch and learn how to make Kinpira here)

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Blanched Arugula 

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Miso Soup

(watch and learn how to make Miso Soup here)

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Nori

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For Dinner 

Udon 

(Watch and learn how to make Udon here)

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Kombu Dashi Broth

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Tempeh cooked down in the broth 

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Left over Blanched Arugula