I love gardening and I love experimenting with food. Last year I decided to try growing something I have seen but never tried, red shiso. I thought it was going to taste more like the Japanese green shiso that I am used to. Maybe mine is a different red shiso. It isn’t as floral and…
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Ume Shiso Onigiri
I’ve been struggling this year to make lunches and packed dinners on my busy dragon boat practice days. Usually my lunches consist of leftover dinners from the previous day but because of dragon boating in the evenings, I have not been able to make easy dinners that can be eaten on the go. Here is…
Shiso Furikake
I have finally grown my own shiso plant from seed. The first year I had little success. This year, I managed to grow two plants!! Unfortunately, with two plants you don’t get a lot of leaves so you can’t make a lot of things in mass quantities. I decided to preserve the leaves in salt…
EAT it NOW or EAT it LATER 