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...

stir-fried aubergine and common beans

Stir-fried aubergine and *** is getting pretty routine at my home.

Ingredients
- a half head of garlic
- 3 aubergine
- a pack of common beans (もろっこまめ)
- miso
- honey

Chop above veggies into the size you want, stir-fry and season with a bit of honey and miso.

autumn miso soup

You don't know how to deal with veggies you've got? My general solution is "through them all into a soup". I mean they also tastes good.

Ingredients for my family were as below, but you can make miso soup with any veggies as you like. I prefer to make miso-soup with wither leaf-veggies only or tuber-crops only.

- 2/3 of a big sweet potato
- 1 rather large onion
- 1 burdock
- 2 carrots
- 5 dry mushrooms (しいたけ)
- 1/2 pack of thin deep-fried tofu
- miso

Stir-fried water spinach

I stir-fried water spinach (空心菜) together with garlic. That was pretty good.

Ingredients are

- a bunch of water spinach

- a a head half of garlic

- salt

how to cook もろへいや

もろへいや is another sticky sort of vegetale and nutritious.

I do not know any sophisticated way of cooking it. But I often simply pick a bunch and cook in boiled water for a couple of minutes, and cool down with tap water. Chop into pieces one find easy to fit in the mouth. Served with soy source or any other source you like. It's a very nutritious vegetable. Ones who have not yet tried out, I recommend you to.