Shrimp stir fry
Seasoned potato
Salad
Tofu and seaweed miso soup
corn
I have some stocked up frozen seafood from previous visit to Costco last month.
My policy for my cooking is;
Well balanced healthy low-fat dinner
Japanese food is something I grew up on.
I was born and raised in Japan up until I was 15 years old.
I don't cook gourmet Japanese cuisine.
I cook EVERYDAY Japanese food...like majority of people in Japan.
I do short-cuts.
I use soup stock powder 'Hon-dashi' instead of making stock from scratch.
What I want to introduce here is the fact that Japanese cooking can be very simple and easy!
Recipe of the day:
Shrimp stir fry
1) Cut up veggies. Anything you have. I used cabbage, oyster mushroom, green pepper (leftover from last week), carrots (I have stocked up baby carrots for my son's snacks), onion and cauliflower (leftover from last week).
2) wash raw shrimp with potato starch (corn starch). The reason? I don't really know, but I read it somewhere that it makes it really clean if you wash them with potato starch or something like that. ha ha
Patted dry shrimp with paper towel. Then coat with potato starch.
3) 1tbl olive oil in a frying pan, slow cook shrimp on a low to medium heat until shrimp gets half cooked.
This is the key to make shrimp from getting over cooked.
4) Spray some oil in another frying pan, start frying all the vegetables with 1tsp of minced garlic. Little salt and pepper. Then add some 1/2 - 1cup chicken stock and 2tbl of oyster sauce on a high heat.
5) Before veggies get fully cooked, add shrimp and stir slowly.
The sauce will get thicken from the starch on shrimp.
My husband and I like to eat this dish with either Chinese or Japanese hot mustard.
You can put them over steamed rice in a bowl too.
And THIS is going to be his bento tomorrow!
*In Japan, people usually prepare bento in the morning.
Since Jimmy wakes up at 5am, I prepare the bento the night before because there's no way I can get up that early to cook!
He usually packs his bento box in a lunch bag with ice pack to keep it cool. Then microwave before eating.
Picture of the day:
