Unconventional soup and salad

This soup and salad lunch with bread came about quite haphazardly. I was scrounging around for ingredients and this was the result: raw tomato soup with leftover marinated veggies and mushrooms, with a piece of Lydia’s Organics Sunflower Seed Bread. Recipe for raw tomato soup (in a high-speed blender): 2 tomatoes 3-4 basil leaves Dash [...]

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Early summer bento

As the owner of three blogs, my camera and desktop are constantly overflowing with photos. I stumbled upon these photos of a bento I made in early May — before my aversion to nut pates. At the time, this bento was pretty yummy. I don’t have a name for it, so maybe “red pepper macadamia”… [...]

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Light raw corn chowder

The one thing I’m craving now is raw savoury soup. They are an all-time fave but I love them more in summer. I have my ever reliable everything-but-the-kitchen-sink raw green soups almost on a daily basis but sometimes I think I need to pamper myself a little. I saw some delicious corn on sale at [...]

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Easy pineapple salsa

Gosh it’s HOT over here in Tokyo so I’m really into salsa type dishes. This is one of my faves… Recipe: 1/4 ripe pineapple, chopped 1/4 white onion, chopped 1 cucumber, chopped Sea salt & black pepper to taste Mix well. I prefer it without lemon or lime juice because pineapple is pretty tart to [...]

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Chocolate chia pudding

You know I adore chia pudding and I literally eat the same one almost daily, but the other day, I thought, “Let’s make this one rock!” And set about making a raw cacao milk with walnuts. Recipe: 1 cup walnut milk 1 tbs raw cacao 2 dates This turned out to be a bowl of [...]

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