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Savory dorayaki - Welcome to my kitchen!
If you have been to Japan or a Japanese grocery store, you probably came across a very popular sweet: dorayaki どら焼き. This traditional Japanese sweet consists of two stacked fluffy and soft pancakes and in between a spoonful of sweet red beans paste. It’s a very nourishing treat that many loves. There’s also some variations,
Ocean and Mount Fuji every day winter trip - Welcome to my kitchen!
This year, after many ideas and discussions of places we could go for the holidays and my birthday, we opted for a short road trip to the coast of Kanagawa and Shizuoka. Plenty of blue ocean and blue skies and views of Mount Fuji from every single angles (we ended up making a 360 around
Peanuts - Welcome to my kitchen!
I love the Japanese name for peanuts: 落花生, it fits so well the way peanuts actually grow! But before living in Japan I never really considered peanuts as a food or a cooking ingredient. I am not into peanut butter either. But when a friend told me why they were called 落花生 and how they
Chilled miso soup - Welcome to my kitchen!
You may be very much used to miso soup as a warm bouillon served either with just a few things in: a slice of shiitake, a peel of yuzu, a few leaves of mitsuba, or with rather plenty of small mushrooms, daikon… But with the summer heat, a chilled soup is very much welcome and
Summer green chilled soup - Welcome to my kitchen!
Last week we went out for dinner to try Cimi Restorant, a restorative kitchen that proposes an interesting concept, with only 10 guests all sitting at one table, in an old house, redesigned for the restaurant, in a mix of old and new. Most dishes are plant based. All the dishes they served were very
Insalata di riso – インサラータ・ディ・リーゾ - Welcome to my kitchen!
In France, the early summer is the end of the school year, and more than often children go on day trips. In which case parents should provide a lunch box. I have no idea what today’s lunch boxes look like, but when I was a child (saying that feels like I 80 years old or
Zucchini season! - Welcome to my kitchen!
It’s been a long time since I last wrote here. I’ve been cooking as usual of course, but nothing that deserved a special entry. Until today. Inspired by a giant zucchini I bought for 100JPY at the farmers market, I decided to use it for a soup. I love mint and zucchini soup, and the
More cauliflower! - Welcome to my kitchen!
I don’t think there was a lot of recipes with cauliflower posted here except quite a few classic soups and a few more creative such that one with sansho. This winter I believe we may have eaten a little more cauliflower than usual because it is so easy to prepare and so quick to cook.
A little magic with pasta leftovers - Welcome to my kitchen!
Every morning A. goes to work on site I prepare him a lunch box. I like to cook lunch early because then I know that my portion is also ready and I can eat any time, even when my schedule is super tight, which is more than often the case recently. When it comes to
Sushi rice and spring vegetables, the perfect combo! - Welcome to my kitchen!
Late spring brings in so many vegetables! Our modest kitchen garden produced a beautiful crop of green peas. Not over a long period of time like last year, but a few kilos in a very short time. I also harvested a lot of sansho pods, and while looking at the recipe to prepare them in
Home alone experiments - Welcome to my kitchen!
While A. is on business trip while my days at work are super busy, I’m oscillating between experimenting new recipes and easy to prepare but very satisfying food such as cheesy toasts and ochazuke… In my experiments, the sweet potatoes gnocchi with a 100% sesame pairing was definitely a huge hit! It mixes perfectly a
Dumplings again and again… - Welcome to my kitchen!
While spring is on its way and nanohana are everywhere, and I can’t wait for the spring vegetables to be there, I am also happy to enjoy a little more the winter vegetables: the leeks, the cabbages and the very last kabocha until they’ll be back next fall. By now you must very well know
Birthday lemon cakes are my favorite!!! - Welcome to my kitchen!
Here we are, Christmas is passed and new year not yet there, and it’s exactly the time for my birthday. Almost as a tradition, A. went horse riding with me, which is a big challenge for him who feels a little uncomfortable on the back of a horse. And then he baked me a cake!
Chestnut risotto - Welcome to my kitchen!
Last winter I trimmed our chestnut tree to try to improve its production, because we usually have very few chestnuts, despite it being a rather large tree. And it work perfectly, we had plenty of chestnuts, I could enjoy seeing them growing slowly, and I was already thinking about all I would do with them,
Cauliflower pasta - Welcome to my kitchen!
It’s the season for cauliflower and I am a big fan, so it always makes me happy to prepare some. Until recently I would either eat it raw, steam it to melty-crunchy, or make a puree or a soup for some classic recipes. Or use Indian inspiration and cook it with spices. Yet this year
A savory pie with Japanese flavors - Welcome to my kitchen!
There’s no secret here, I love all sorts of stuffed food: dumplings, ravioli, gyoza, pies and all the others. And I cook some almost every week. Last week I was set to cook an okonomiyaki, I had the Chinese cabbage, the pork meat and dinner was all set. But then, A. reminded me that we
Yuzu pompe à l’huile - Welcome to my kitchen!
Hello my friends!!! It’s been a long time, right! Well the blog is not dead at all, I just encountered technical issues between the web hosting and wordpress and finally A. solved the problem for me! So I am back!!! There has been quite a few recipes I wanted to share here, but they have
Starting afresh the sourdough adventure – Welcome to my kitchen!
Starting afresh the sourdough adventureIt has been two years since I made Lois, my sourdough, and even though we had our ups and downs, overall, Lois was a great fun to use and taught me a lot. It even survived quietly our absence during our trip to France. So what happened? Why did suddenly things
My summer favorite: edamame paste and pasta – Welcome to my kitchen!
My summer favorite: edamame paste and pastaThe summer is slowly reaching its end and the end of summer vegetables start to arrive such as butternut squash and kabocha, but before the summer ends for real, let’s enjoy a little more the summer vegetables: eggplants, cucumber, edamame and jute mallow…P
Celebrating 18 years in Japan – Welcome to my kitchen!
Celebrating 18 years in Japan18 years ago today we arrived in Tokyo with not much of a plan, I would be working at the University of Tokyo for 2 years, and A. would see how the job market is for him. Not speaking a word of Japanese, but with a few good friends in Tokyo, Japanese and French.18 years
Don’t you love parsley too? – Welcome to my kitchen!
Don’t you love parsley too?When I was a child my grandmother would only make things I love to eat. My favorite were cannelloni and “croustades” and “tomates a la provencal”. But when I stayed longer with grand parents she would also make millions of other things I love: stuffed vegetables, bouillaba
A short trip to Kanazawa – Welcome to my kitchen!
A short trip to KanazawaAfter the heat of the summer and before the crowds of international tourists flock the country again we decided to go for a short trip to Kanazawa. Our last visit was more than 10 years ago, before the Hokuriku shinkansen opened… we drove there and stopped to visit friends an
Celebrating 18 years in Japan – Welcome to my kitchen!
Celebrating 18 years in Japan18 years ago today we arrived in Tokyo with not much of a plan, I would be working at the University of Tokyo for 2 years, and A. would see how the job market is for him. Not speaking a word of Japanese, but with a few good friends in Tokyo, Japanese and French.18 years
Do you know the millasson cake? I did not… – Welcome to my kitchen!
Do you know the millasson cake? I did not…Well there are so many things I don’t know about… that I am never surprised to discover a new name or a new recipe. As simple as it can be.A. had a bottle of Balthus 2019 to drink (we could have kept it though… but why wait…) and after a short search, it see
Fougasse – Welcome to my kitchen!
FougasseWhen I was a child, my mum would come to pick us at school for lunch, then we would walk to the car and somedays, on the way stop to buy some bread at Mr. Richard bread shop. And one bread in particular, fougasse. His signature fougasse unless most other bread shop was not the one with olive
Have you ever heard of propagule? – Welcome to my kitchen!
Have you ever heard of propagule?So…if you have read my previous post you may have read that in Kanazawa I bought some mysterious food (I don’t know if we can call it fruit or vegetable…): propagule-ムカゴ-mukago. It looks like a tiny potato with a darker skin. It’s the “fruit” of the Japanese mountain
Potatoes my friend? Yes, but vitelotte, please! – Welcome to my kitchen!
Potatoes my friend? Yes, but vitelotte, please!I have tried many things in the kitchen garden during the past 10 years. Eggplants, cucumbers, snap peas, tomatoes, cabbages etc… most of which were total failures, eaten by the kions, or the snails, or whoever was around. My most successful crop, by f