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A Japanese Tokyoite loving food, design, culture and writing

salad nicoise (simple version) & chilled fava bean soup

this is a dinner from about a week ago, following a quite a big brunch during the day with friends. we decided to go healthy for dinner, hence the salad & bean soup.

I always make vinaigrette on my own – this time, i used regular salad oil, red wine vinegar, onion and a hint of balsamico. this time i used a can of tuna instead of fresh tuna (didn’t have time to shop).

the soup is made of fresh fava beans, boiled and then simmered with chopped onion in extra virgin olive oil, mixed with cold milk afterwards, salt & pepper to taste. so simple but quite tasty. i didn’t use bouillon at all, but this way, the taste of fava beans seem to have stood out.

cold udon noodle on a hot summer night

it’s 35 degrees out, humid just like when taking a bath. the weather worn us out, our appetite getting smaller, but we need to eat something to regain our energy a bit.

so i made cold udon noodles for dinner. prepared with a lot of herb garnish to put in in its cold dipping soup, and some cucumber sticks with miso paste on the side, and grilled pepper chicken sticks for the main course.

and the result? yes, all the plates empty!