Dinner for Two? 🇯🇵 | Six Dishes, and Only Me

In the afternoon I took a short tea break, with a sake lees cheesecake I had been curious about for a while. The tag on the tea bag said "CHOICE." On the back: "LIVE FULLY." Then I cooked a proper Japanese dinner, for the first time in a while. Brown rice with carrots in a clay pot, konnyaku and nori shiraae, tuna and cilantro potato salad, autumn salmon, komatsuna with bonito flakes, and miso soup with barley miso from Kagoshima. Six dishes. And I was the only one eating. About 200 years ago, a French gourmet wrote, "Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are." When I was younger, I didn't think about that much. Now I do. Not for anyone else — for me. Hello, I'm Waka 🌿 I live alone in a small Tokyo apartment, in my 40s, single. Two burners, one clay pot, and dinner for one. Maybe cooking for one isn't so different from cooking for someone else? ☕ Thanks for watching — let's grab a coffee together 　 Support this channel： https://buymeacoffee.com/wakainjapan ******* 🍱 A Japanese Dinner — six dishes 　→Cooking starts at 03:03 🍚 Brown rice with carrots (clay pot) · Brown rice — 2 rice cups (gō) · Carrot — 1 · Sake — a splash ※ With fewer side dishes, I season it with dashi and soy sauce. This time there were plenty of sides, so I left it plain. 🍲 Miso soup with fried tofu and aosa · Usuage (thin fried tofu) · Aosa seaweed · Kombu dashi · Barley miso from Kagoshima 🥬 Komatsuna with bonito flakes and soy sauce · Komatsuna — just a quick stir-fry in coconut oil 🥔 Tuna and cilantro potato salad · Toya potatoes from Hokkaido · Cilantro from Chiba · Tuna · Soy milk mayonnaise · Curry powder 🐟 Autumn salmon · Bought on sale and frozen, then grilled to taste good · One side on a paper towel to soak up the extra moisture, the other on frying-pan foil 🥢 Konnyaku and nori shiraae · Konnyaku — boiled, with the smell and water fully removed · Tofu — pressed under a weight to drain · Toasted nori — soaks up any extra water · Ground sesame — plenty · Light dashi soy sauce — that's all, kept simple ※ Shiraae is often made with sesame paste, but ground sesame is easier! #japanvlog #silentvlog #slowliving #livingaloneinjapan #singleinmy40s #lifeinjapan #japanesefood #tokyovlog