Here is an excellent guide to using kombu and making kombu dashi #JapaneseFood

Kombu is not as available as it once was, sadly, and I purchase mine online. There are different types - and this article refers to them but doesn't list them.

But it does talk about the difference flavours you can get from soaking, simmering and boiling kombu - so rare to see this information.

There are several different types of dashi too. Kombu dashi can be used in place of bonito dashi for vegetarians. As its flavour is different, it can also be chosen for dishes by non-vegetarians.

As a base for miso soup is one excellent way of using kombu dashi. There is also an excellent recipe for oven cooked vegetables in #Nourish by #HollyDavis, where the veg are baked, covered, in a little kombu dashi made by including a piece of kombu and some water. It is most excellent.

It is also excellent with Ramen and all Japanese noodle dishes, as well as rice.

https://www.fromthecomfortofmybowl.com/kombu-dashi/

#vegetarian #vegan #EggFree #Kombu #dashi #food

The veggies are roasted for Vegetable and Pecan Pie, from #Nourish by #HollyDavis, a macrobiotic cookbook from way back when. Full of delicious recipes that I still use today. The pie is not all root veg - it is leeks, pumpkin, sweet potato, eggplant. I couldn't help adding some curry powder mix to the veg this time for a Curried Veg and Pecan Pie. The pastry is a shortcrust made with olive oil. Should be good.

This is the first of 2 veggie pies I am making over the next week 🤞 The other is mainly root veg based, but with lots more flavourings. I'm going to make individual pies with that one.

#WhatIAmCooking #WhatIAmCookingFrom

I am not sure if you know of Eat Your Books - a website that has indexed cookbooks, magazines and some blogs, so that you can search online for recipes in your own personal library. Anyway, have a look at them.

They have just added the index for Nourish, by Holly Davis - a few years old now but a favourite of mine, and gifted to me by a dear friend. I am very happy to have these recipes included in my searches.

https://www.eatyourbooks.com

#Nourish #HollyDavis #Cookbooks #Food