うめ～梅！

since I knew J was gonna be late home today, and he usually rings to say he is on his way home just as K and I are in the bath*, I wanted to prepare stuff that could be easily heated up at the last minute, so this is what I did:

＊　chicken 梅シソ (only had chicken breast, as J bought it when shopping on the weekend, and when I said to buy chicken, he thought I meant for me only, so he bought breast.Haha, now he has to eat it too - he doesn't like it, reckons it is always ぱさぱさ). I have made this recipe before, with sasami, but this was just as good, I guess since it is steamed it keeps the breast meat moist. The 梅干 were big plump ones done in honey, and delish! I just love de-stoning them, coz I get to eat the flesh left around the stones. I still have a lot of shiso left over, as bought one of those trays for 99yen (must have about 8 bunches of 10leaves each.) so tomorrow I am shiso-ing again. But I really like shiso too, so this is good!

＊　brocolli with tuna/mayo/cheese/egg topping this was yummy, will bookmark this to use again.


＊　豆腐のねぎ炒め, since I had some tofu about to go out of date. This also was good, kinda like a poor man's (as in simple version)　マーボー豆腐

and rice (1/3 玄米 2/3 white rice, since I actually remembered to soak the brown rice from this morning!) and pickles, leftover squid marinated in mirin to round it off.


*of course, we could have an earlier bath, but this afternoon we went to the neighbours for a play in the afternoon, so there wasn't much time after, and K had to eat (brocolli, chicken 混ぜrice)