MIL brought around a zucchini-looking-goya-looking vege yesterday. I thought she said it was called へじば but googling came up with nothing but references to じじばば so some serious detective googling and I realised that it is in the gourd family, and it is actually called ヘチマ or luffa....yep, just like loufers you use to scrub dpwn dead skin cells! ha! how cool is that. Is also used alot in okinawan cooking, apparently.Anyway, am going to find a recipe for it to use tomorrow night, as tonight is:
* salad - lettuce, red cabbage, avocado, tomato, cucumber.
* bbq meat （市販タレ付き焼肉）that J had in the freezer.
* pumpkin soup (gotta make that now)
* rice
and perhaps some natto too.
oh and some tofu - 冷奴.
and the soup has turned our just fantastic (added a maggi stock cube to it), if I do say so myself. Gotta love pumpkin soup! Just gotta add some cream to it before serving.
