Stir-Fried Mozuku

Today, I will translate my mozuku recipe which won the highest award at mozuku recipe contest. Mozuku (Cladosiphon okamuranus) is noodle-like seaweed which is mainly produced in Okinawa.

Please see how much mozuku ReBekha picked up the other day! Wow!!!

This recipe, you can cook mozuku with leftover ingredients in your fridge! Bacon adds rich flavor to it. Yummy ;P

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Stir-Fried Mozuku

Difficulty: Easy
Time: 5-10min
Number of servings: 2

Ingredients:
100ｇ (3.5oz.) Mozuku
60ｇ (2.2oz.) carrot
3 Japanese green pepper
3 dried shiitake mushroom
2 bacon strip
1 tbsp. soy sauce
cracked salt and pepper
2 tsp. sesame oil
2 tsp. toasted white sesame seeds

Directions:
1. Wash mozuku, drain well, and cut into bite sized pieces. Soak dried shiitake mushrooms in water until soft, remove stems, and slice thinly. Cut carrot, green pepper, and bacon into thin strips.
2. Heat sesame oil in a frying pan, cook the bacon until crisp. Add and stir-fry carrot and green pepper until slightly softened. Then add and stir-fry shiitake and mozuku.
3. Season with cracked salt and pepper, sprinkle toasted white sesame seeds, and serve.

My original recipe in Japanese is here.
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How Do You Like Your Kitchen?

As I wrote before, I'm thinking of moving, and hopefully, I want to give more priority to my kitchen.

Currently, I have stand-alone kitchen. Which means the kitchen is in a small room surrounded by walls. If I want to watch TV, I need to look at dining room sideways... Therefore, I'm dreaming of owning counter kitchen, maybe the flat one like a table :D However, I hear pros and cons on it. The advantage is that you can join your family while cooking, but the disadvantage is that everything even leftover foods and garbage can be viewed from dining room...

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Plum Wine Recipe Contest

Yesterday afternoon, I took a half day off to attend the finals of Home Cooking Plum Wine Recipe Contest organized by Fujicitio (supermarket in Kanagawa) and Asahi Breweries (leading brewery and soft drink company based in Tokyo). Plum wine, as you may know, is a Japanese alcoholic drink made by steeping green ume in shōchū (燒酎 - clear liquor). The finals were held at restaurant Harmonic located in Asahi's Annex building.

The total of 9 recipes which passed the first screening were cooked and served by the owner chef Minegishi Hiroshi. We enjoyed sampling them and actually evaluated them! What was good about this contest was we finalists didn't have to cook our own recipes ;) Thus, we had a relaxing time!

My recipe was again sushi rolls... I thought I should have submitted the better one if I knew that the chef is going to cook it for us!!! Anyway, I had a good time.

By the way, the event site was located in Asakusa, so I enjoyed sightseeing there, too! Asakusa is a part of Tokyo's downtown Taito district best known for its many temples, particularly Sensōji (left bottom image). Believe it or not, it was my first time to go there!

Today, the high is over 20C (68F) like summer! But it gonna drop down again to winter tomorrow. Crazy!

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