I've been cooking out of a new cookbook I check out from the library "Japanese Light" by Kimiko Barber. It's an interesting book but unless you live in an area that has fresh Japanese produce, tofu and ingredients it would be hard to make most of the recipes. Annie and I got soaked when we went out for our morning walk (it's been raining all day) so I decided to make fall mushroom soup. I've never made dashi (seaweed and fish broth) from scratch. Dashi is one of the main ingredients in Japanese cooking. It's very easy to make and has a very light taste. There are three mushrooms in the soup, shitake, shimeji and oyster. It made a very tasty soup!
Flat Fish Paper Arts was born many years ago when blogging first started. My family did a lot of camping and diving along the California coast. California halibut are huge fish that start out as any normal fish. As they age, one eye will start to move to the other side and the halibut will become flat so it can lay on the bottom of the ocean with both eyes facing up.
I always like the idea that we all start out the same but life experiences slowly changes us. In my case, my creative talents went the way of paper arts. Flatfish are always looking up when they mature and as with any artist, we see inspiration in everything around us - always looking up.
Evan and her flatfish
Years ago a local dive shop had a photo of a diver who caught a halibut so big he had to throw it over his jeep to take the picture. Our little spoof with our daughter sitting in her toy jeep with dad's halibut on the hood. 1987
I've been cooking out of a new cookbook I check out from the library "Japanese Light" by Kimiko Barber. It's an interesting book but unless you live in an area that has fresh Japanese produce, tofu and ingredients it would be hard to make most of the recipes
. Annie and I got soaked when we went out for our morning walk (it's been raining all day) so I decided to make fall mushroom soup. I've never made dashi (seaweed and fish broth) from scratch. Dashi is one of the main ingredients in Japanese cooking. It's very easy to make and has a very light taste. There are three mushrooms in the soup, shitake, shimeji and oyster. It made a very tasty soup!
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