Wednesday in Japan , rice

Rice
Food, wonderful food and Japanese food is wonderful.

Rice, noddles, vegetables, fish or meat.

Simple and so good.

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 Salad with lotus root.

 Yakiniku, grilling at the table.

Train Bento

 Vegetables, chicken over rice

 Salmon over rice

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 One with everything

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And one with a beer.

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Now why am I re-posting some already seen photos ?

Even if they look beautiful and were so tasty ?

Because of rice !

I love rice I could eat it everyday.

But rice and bread doesn't like my scale or my hips, like most carbs.

I usually put my stir fry and curry on cabbage. 

Either cut super fine on a mandolin

or sliced very thin with a knife like noodles.

BUT

I found magic.

Magic !

I am telling you magic.

Are listing or reading this.

Magic

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Magic Cauliflower

Besides loving cauliflower and chopping it up for many of my dishes,

I found out I could make Cauliflower Rice

and I am so happy.

Happy Happy Happy.

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Take a head of cauliflower and grate fine. I don't have a food processor

so I used my trusty old box grater.  It should look like rice.

In a saute pan I used about a tablespoons of coconut oil and lightly cooked "rice"
with some onion for about 5 minutes.
Stir in what ever you feel like. I just wanted a plain rice.

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Son made a quick pork and onion stir fry with one of his own sauces.

It was so good and since it was my evening meal it felt great
not to eat or miss the carbs.

Maybe I am Pavlov's Dog

but the cauliflower looked like rice and tasted pretty close to rice.

Woof, woof, drool.

 

You can add anything you want to it, more spices, pesto, sauces what ever.

My next try will be a veggie stir-fry with tofu.

 This was so good.

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And just because I can here is your mid-week pretty.

The Gud Dr. Watson

 Pretty handsome considering he is 16.

Very profound.

One with the world.

Very Zen.

I love this dog.

He is my heart.

He helped our family through some very tough times.
He is an old soul.
Since he is deaf now and has dementia I talk and kiss the top of
his beautiful head everyday.

zen. . . parsnip

music. . . Postcards From Paradise,  Ringo Starr