Who Am I Cooking For? 🇯🇵 | A Japanese Dinner in My 40s
Waka🇯🇵 - Lively up yourself
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In the afternoon I took a short tea break, with a sake lees cheesecake I had been curious about for a while. The tag on the tea bag said "CHOICE." On the back: "LIVE FULLY."
Then I cooked a proper Japanese dinner, for the first time in a while. Brown rice with carrots in a clay pot, konnyaku and nori shiraae, tuna and cilantro potato salad, autumn salmon, komatsuna with bonito flakes, and miso soup with barley miso from Kagoshima.
Six dishes. And I was the only one eating.
About 200 years ago, a French gourmet wrote, "Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are." When I was younger, I didn't think about that much. Now I do. Not for anyone else — for me.
Hello, I'm Waka 🌿 I live alone in a small Tokyo apartment, in my 40s, single. Two burners, one clay pot, and dinner for one.
Maybe cooking for one isn't so different from cooking for someone else?
☕ Thanks for watching — let's grab a coffee together
Support this channel：
https://buymeacoffee.com/wakainjapan
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🍱 A Japanese Dinner — six dishes
→Cooking starts at 03:03
🍚 Brown rice with carrots (clay pot)
· Brown rice — 2 rice cups (gō)
· Carrot — 1
· Sake — a splash
※ With fewer side dishes, I season it with dashi and soy sauce. This time there were plenty of sides, so I left it plain.
🍲 Miso soup with fried tofu and aosa
· Usuage (thin fried tofu)
· Aosa seaweed
· Kombu dashi
· Barley miso from Kagoshima
🥬 Komatsuna with bonito flakes and soy sauce
· Komatsuna — just a quick stir-fry in coconut oil
🥔 Tuna and cilantro potato salad
· Toya potatoes from Hokkaido
· Cilantro from Chiba
· Tuna
· Soy milk mayonnaise
· Curry powder
🐟 Autumn salmon
· Bought on sale and frozen, then grilled to taste good
· One side on a paper towel to soak up the extra moisture, the other on frying-pan foil
🥢 Konnyaku and nori shiraae
· Konnyaku — boiled, with the smell and water fully removed
· Tofu — pressed under a weight to drain
· Toasted nori — soaks up any extra water
· Ground sesame — plenty
· Light dashi soy sauce — that's all, kept simple
※ Shiraae is often made with sesame paste, but ground sesame is easier!
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6 Comments
I am hopeful that today is a wonderful day for you. That you are well rested, the skies are blue and your heart is full.
It was a pleasure to see a new video, and I enjoyed it very much.
You have a lot of passion for what you cook, and I have much respect for this as well. I try to eat healthy, but in all honesty I could do better than I do.
I enjoy cooking, but I only cook for myself and my Mum as she has a hard time doing it at her age.
The dishes you prepared looked simply delicious. You do such an amazing job and your smile before you ate was everything. 😊 At that moment I was truly happy for you and you definitely deserved to relax and enjoy.
Although I am still relatively new to your channel, I really enjoy it very much. You also have a wonderful way of bringing happiness with all you do. So for me, I am very grateful for the time you share.
No matter what this new day may bring, I am hopeful that it is treating you especially well and as the tea suggests live fully as well.
Enjoy your day to the fullest, and I will happily look forward to seeing your next vlog. 🌹✨
But here in Canada, seafood is expensive, so it's actually cheaper for me to buy ground pork and ground chicken than to buy seafood. I tend to cook with chicken the most, because it's the healthiest out of all the meats, and I like to give some to my dog sometimes. I actually spend more money on dog food than on my own groceries because I like to spoil my dog, and I can afford to because it's only the two us here at home.
Based on my food choices, I think Brillat-Savarin was right. Since I eat simply and I eat simple yet healthy foods, I would like to think of myself as a simple person who is healthy, both mentally and physically. Also, I'm too impatient to cook complicated dishes unlike you, so I guess that makes me an impatient person too!🙄😉
Waka-san, you should wear your hair down more often in your videos. It looks elegant, speaks volumes...like Jean's quote!👍
Have a great day!
Who Am I Cooking For? 🇯🇵 | A Japanese Dinner in My 40s
Waka🇯🇵 - Lively up yourself
821 views
In the afternoon I took a short tea break, with a sake lees cheesecake I had been curious about for a while. The tag on the tea bag said "CHOICE." On the back: "LIVE FULLY."
Then I cooked a proper Japanese dinner, for the first time in a while. Brown rice with carrots in a clay pot, konnyaku and nori shiraae, tuna and cilantro potato salad, autumn salmon, komatsuna with bonito flakes, and miso soup with barley miso from Kagoshima.
Six dishes. And I was the only one eating.
About 200 years ago, a French gourmet wrote, "Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are." When I was younger, I didn't think about that much. Now I do. Not for anyone else — for me.
Hello, I'm Waka 🌿 I live alone in a small Tokyo apartment, in my 40s, single. Two burners, one clay pot, and dinner for one.
Maybe cooking for one isn't so different from cooking for someone else?
☕ Thanks for watching — let's grab a coffee together
Support this channel：
https://buymeacoffee.com/wakainjapan
*******
🍱 A Japanese Dinner — six dishes
→Cooking starts at 03:03
🍚 Brown rice with carrots (clay pot)
· Brown rice — 2 rice cups (gō)
· Carrot — 1
· Sake — a splash
※ With fewer side dishes, I season it with dashi and soy sauce. This time there were plenty of sides, so I left it plain.
🍲 Miso soup with fried tofu and aosa
· Usuage (thin fried tofu)
· Aosa seaweed
· Kombu dashi
· Barley miso from Kagoshima
🥬 Komatsuna with bonito flakes and soy sauce
· Komatsuna — just a quick stir-fry in coconut oil
🥔 Tuna and cilantro potato salad
· Toya potatoes from Hokkaido
· Cilantro from Chiba
· Tuna
· Soy milk mayonnaise
· Curry powder
🐟 Autumn salmon
· Bought on sale and frozen, then grilled to taste good
· One side on a paper towel to soak up the extra moisture, the other on frying-pan foil
🥢 Konnyaku and nori shiraae
· Konnyaku — boiled, with the smell and water fully removed
· Tofu — pressed under a weight to drain
· Toasted nori — soaks up any extra water
· Ground sesame — plenty
· Light dashi soy sauce — that's all, kept simple
※ Shiraae is often made with sesame paste, but ground sesame is easier!
#japanvlog #silentvlog #slowliving #livingaloneinjapan #singleinmy40s #lifeinjapan #japanesefood #tokyovlog
Who do you usually cook for — yourself, your family, or someone else? I'd love to hear about your table. 🍚