The sakura/Cherry Blossom Season is practically finished except in the mountains but you still can find them pickled in salt! They do make for a beautiful decoration and great decoration!
The Missus put some into lukewarm water to get rid of excess salt and make them swell.
She then mixed them with freshly steamed rice.
For more decoration and seasoning she added some home-pickled mini melon.
These mini melons come from musk melon farms in the Prefecture which is nationally famous for these extravagant fruit which need a lot of pairing to produce the best watermelons. The paired fruit are not thrown away but sold in markets as they are very popular pickled!
The side dish contained the Missus’ Japanese version of a Japanese omelette!
Plenty of colors, fibers and Vitamins with the vegetables:
Carrot and walnut salad,
salad beans and mini tomatoes,
and a bed of ice plants for the omelette!
Very thin omelette made with red pimentos and sato endo mame/砂糖エンドウ豆/sweet green peas in their pod!
Very, very colorful, so healthy and yummy!
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I always look forward to your wife’s bento artistry. I have to learn how to make pickled Sakura. My tree is covered in blossoms right now.
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Ver easy!
Clean the flowers, wipe them and salt them. Let them dry in the sun and put them inside an airtight bag or deep-freeze them!
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Omelette looks divine! It’s making me hungry right now 🙂
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Dear Susan!
I forgot to mention a little cheese on the omelette!
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Cheery blossoms – cute! What are the thick bumpy green leaves in the center?
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Ice plants, my friend!
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Ah, ice plants! Very unique!
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Did you know they originally come from Africa?
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Interesting. “Ice plants” from Africa!
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I mean that they were first grown in Western Africa before farmers started growing them some time ago in Japan!
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Oh, got it! 🙂
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Good! LOL
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One more gorgeous lunch! I must taste pickled sakura flowers one day. They are so beautiful!
The omelet makes me think I need an egg dish for lunch.
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Mind you that was very simple, but the Missus is experimenting these days, although she me hovering around! LOL
Thank you so much for your compliments!
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