Turnip pickle and sauerkraut

This morning's production: Turnip pickle and sauerkraut.

Fast food, but no junk

House-garden's beans, home-made pickle, and tofu, these make up our fast, but no junk dinner.

mizuna (みずな) salad

Honestly, initially it was my wife's idea, but we have enjoyed mizuna salad for some time already.

This time, I mixed mizuna and radish. Dressing? Well, I used olive oil, salt and sudachi juice (and tabasco) today. But you can use whatever your favorite dressing.

turnip leaf pickle

Veggies and fruits we receive and cook are getting completely autumn and even showing switch to the winter. Farmers have harvested young turnips for bigger tubers at the real harvest.

We pickled the young turnip leaf, with salt, kombu and some pieces of dry red chili. A pickle usually serve my family with regular simple side dish for a week or more.

sudachi （すだち）honey juice

For a family who have sick members, squeeze sudachi (すだち) juice into a cup, pour hot water and as much honey as you like. That should be a good vitamin C source.

chard/garlic pasta

We've got some chard and wondered what to do. An idea appeared in my mind was a spaghetti dish.

Recipe for two adults:

- a bunch of chard
- half head of garlic
- spaghetti
- salt

Cook appropriate amount of spaghetti. At the same time, cut  chard into the size you want, peel and mash garlic pieces. Stir-fry mashed garlic and add chard later. Season with salt when done.

This was a pretty cool dish.

German melon ? (ドイツうり) pickles

German melon (ドイツうり) sounded strange. I surfed a bit on the web and found this cultivar is native to Sasayama. Why German? One article says that people tended to name things with some exotic foreign hints during some period. Still it sounds wired.

I found an article online and tried out pickling this. I sliced the German melon, sprinkled salt, placed them in a bowl together with a piece of こんぶ (kombu) and left it for a night.

My wife liked the pickle. I found it a bit wired because the pickle had a hint of melon. My daughter does not eat green colored-veggies as usual...