Today’s bento was the first of the year.
The Missus being still on holiday made it in a bit of a hurry as she being bsuy cleaning our place like very Japanese housewife does at the beginning of the year. A good time forme to escape to work! LOL
Being conscious of the too many calories I’ve been infgetsing recently she kept my bento to a healthy minimum.: musubi/rice balls, tamagoyaki and salad.
The musubi/rice balls were an interesting concept: She had marinated large egoma leaves (a large and very tasty variety of shiso/perilla) overnght in miso and what else. After steaming the rice, she made triangular rice balls (balls is not the right term, then!), sauteed and then wrapped them inside the leaves. They also contained a honey-sweetened umeboshi/Japanese pickled plum. Very tasty!
The salad dish was basically made up of leftovers:
Potato, onion, cucumber and tobikko/flying fish roe salad, boiled large green beans she rolled with some dressing in the middle. home-made pickled red daikon with black sesame, and plum tomatoes on trevise cabbage.
Colorful, healthy and tasty! No complaints! LOL
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Happy New Years!
I am also a fan of the large shiso leaves,but didn’t know they were called egoma. Would you mind asking your Missus about the process of soaking the leaves in miso? Overnight in white or red miso, plain or with other ingredients? I hope you don’t mind me asking as I adore your recipes so one more wouldn’t hurt… would it? hehehe…
Best regards,
Debra
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Dear Debra!
Greetings!
The Missus basically soak shiso/egoma in (not so much) soy sauce and dark re miso in a tupperware overnight.
She then wraps the musubi in them and fry them (yaki musubi)!
Cheers,
Robert-Gilles
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I find the leaves on those masubi balls interesting.
Happy New Year R-G!!
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Dear Jenn!
happy New Year!
They are great indeed!
The leaves are calle “egoma”. It is a large shiso variety. Very tasty!
Robert-Gilles
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Looks delicious! I comment rarely but found you via FoodBuzz (I think you followed me first!) and I’ve enjoyed the view into your kitchen! Happy New Year!
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Cheers, dear Ellen!
Happy New year to you and your dear ones, too!
Robert-Gilles
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Can I send my hubby to her for lessons? That all sounds amazingly good, and just right to start the new year. Happy New Year to you Robert-Gilles.
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Dear Lou-Ann!
Greetings and a Happy New Year!
The Missus might be a lot to handle for hubby!LOL
Cheers,
Robert-Gilles
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