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お~~皆さん! #Beni です! Welcome back to #LetsNotStarve! For today’s dish, Lady A made curry to kick off our FLOWER MONTH. Flowers are everywhere!!!!! Cherries are blooming, plums are blossoming, Magnolia is a beautiful crimson… so much beauty in all the places! So to celebrate, Lady A made one of her favorite dishes in the world: japanese curry haha. Who’s not surprised? Everybody…. BUT~ she cut all the veggies into adorable flowers and put a nice sunny egg on top because it was a sunny day with petals floating through the sky :)

Hi everyone! Beni here and welcome back to Let’s Not Starve! For this week Lady J is going back to the basics. (Truth be told Lady J totally forget to buy sheets of nori to make sushi rolls so she had to make it work with what she had. Just smile and nod for this one friends. ;P)

SUSHI - BACK TO BASICS

For this bento Lady J decided to make a deconstructed tempura sushi roll. The top layer of the bento has tempura shrimp pieces. For these Lady J cleaned, deveined, and shelled about a dozen shrimp. The shrimp are then lightly coated in flour, dipped in a tempura batter, and immediately fried until golden brown. After the shrimp have cooled they are diced into cubes with a couple tails added for decoration.

The bottom layer is a bed of jasmine rice topped with a nori and salmon furikake for a splash of color and flavor. :)

お~~皆さん! #Beni です! Welcome back to #LetsNotStarve! For today’s Friday post Lady J would like to share a dish that has been nick named Husband Soup. This was a soup that was invented by Lady J’s husband. It has Italian sausage, kale, and potatoes in a chili broth. It’s excellent on cold days and is very easy to customize the spice level. Comment below if ya’ll would like me to post the recipe.

Hi everyone!!! Beni here!!! I hope everyone had a nice holiday no matter which one you celebrate and is all ready for new years eve! #January posts are going to be short and sweet because Lady A has had an insane few weeks and still recovering from a #cold.....

But she still made something for her buddy to take for# lunch! It's #keto surf and turf sushi to help with those new years #resolutions! Instead of rice, she used fried tofu and cream cheese, with seared steak and shrimp in the middle. Low carb for sure!

Hi everyone! Beni here and welcome back to Let’s Not Starve! Did everyone have a good thanksgiving break??? Lady A’s company decided to give her a 4-day weekend this year so she was able to have a nice long relaxing and productive weekend. What’s a holiday without delicious food too??? One thing that holidays no matter where you are have in common is COMFORT FOOD. For this week’s bento, Lady A decided to visit her chinese roots to make some traditional comfort food. Mapo tofu is a classic Szechuan (SiChuan) dish that is delicious, filling, and provides some nice spicy heat! Lets goooo!

NOVEMBER - Mapo Tofu Warms Me Tummy

For the main dish Lady A made a classic mapo tofu dish to go on top of some white rice. Her roommate mistakenly bought basmati rice instead of jasmine rice so it’s a little bit off hahahaha…

Mapo is pretty easy to make! What you need is:

1. Spicy peppercorn oil. On medium heat, fry dried chili peppers and Szechuan peppercorns so it only has some light bubbles (no boiling oil!) to flavor. Szechuan peppercorns is what gives that classic numbing effect of these regional dishes.

2. 2 tablespoon Spicy bean paste. Local chinese/taiwanese grocers will have these!

3. 2 tablespoon Sweet bean paste (tian mian jiang).

4. Minced ginger, garlic and scallions to add flavor to the hot spice oil once it goes into the fry pan.

5. ½ lb Ground pork and a box of silky tofu!

In the wok, fry the ginger-garlic-scallion in a few tablespoons of the spice oil on medium-high heat until fragrant. Then add the two bean pastes and stirfry the sauce together. Next add the ground pork and sautee until pork is thoroughly cooked. Add the tofu next to coat in the sauce.

Take a small bowl and mix a few tablespoons of cold water and some corn starch or potato starch and add to the hot pan. The heat will activate the starch and create a thicker sauce.

Sprinkle some extra sliced scallions ontop to decorate if you like and you’re done! Enjoy! :)

We hope you enjoyed this edition of Let’s Not Starve! Stay tuned for more weekly updates! よろしくお願いします！またねー！~~

Hi everyone! Beni here and welcome back to Let’s Not Starve! Today is going to be a short and sweet post because Lady A has been busy moving to a new house and she lost her laptop charger in all the chaos (ahahaha goldfish brain…). But she was still able to make some comfort food onigiri rice balls over the weekend! Guess what they’re filled with?! Curry!.... Again… by request. One of Lady A’s friends is obsessed with her curry….. Lets take a look!

NOVEMBER - Relaxin’ with Onigiri

A simple japanese style curry with simmered onions and potatoes fill the middle. The side dish is garlicky soy sauce stir-fried mushrooms and broccoli. AND to be healthier, she made tamagoyaki that is comprised with only egg whites! Still very tasty but much less fat. Yum!

お~~皆さん! #Beni です! Welcome back to #LetsNotStarve! For today’s Friday post Lady J would like to share a dessert she tried. Today’s dessert is a chocolate ganache from Juellette Chocolate. This is was a rich chocolate pastry with little crunchy bits and a raspberry sauce.

Beni tried to cook lunch for us today but it looks like we might need to teach the little one how to scoop ;) Have a great Friday everyone!