Gingerbread Man Cookies, Vegan & Gluten-free ジンジャーブレッドマンクッキー [Recipes, Winter 冬レシピ]
日本語のレシピは ビーガン、ベジタリアン情報満載の Hachidory から ご覧下さい。
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Merry Christmas !
I hope you are having a wonderful happy holiday.
I’ll be having a dinner alone at my home…
But don’t worry, I do not mind it at all.
After all it is not a holiday in Japan, and is also not the day that family get together unless they have small kids at their home. It is rather the day that young people have gathering or dinner with their own friends, not with their families.
I wrote more about Christmas in Japan in previous posts, so if you are interested in, visit and read them.
With the recipe of Christmas pumpkin muffin
I already had happy Christmas parties with my students and my family on separate occasions.
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??_The decoration cake that my students made following the recipe that I passed to them.
The Christmas tree potato salad that I made.
The Christmas lease shaped rice bread decorated by kids
It is my greatest pleasure to plan what to cook for special occasions and to cook in my own way and in my own speed without any restrictions.
How fortunate I am to have such a freedom and dignity!
I have enough food to fill my tummy and a shelter to keep myself warm during this cold season.
What else can I ask for ?
My thought goes to those beings whose freedom and dignities are taken away and living in miserable conditions in this world.
I just wish merry Christmas to all of them.
May the god bless to all the creatures living in this world….
The recipe that I am introducing to you today is Gingerbread Man Cookies !
Of course, vegan and also gluten-free.
They are too cute so you may not want to eat them after all !
Rice with Radish Leaves / 大根菜飯 Vegan Gluten-free [Recipes, Winter 冬レシピ]
日本語のレシピは ビーガン、ベジタリアン情報満載の Hachidory から ご覧下さい。
The autumn is a beautiful season.
The leaves of the trees are still yellow, orange and red though some have started falling.
The lake near my home is surrounded by those trees, and looks so elegant.
When I visited there yesterday, the leaves were dancing with the wind, falling onto the lake, floating and drifting on the water.
It was such a lovely scene !!
Precious moment that I would not be able to see at least next one year.
I am sharing some of the photos that I took recently.
Some are the one taken a week ago, and some are the ones taken yesterday.
My house is also covered with colored ivies which started climbing on the wall about two years ago.
They turned to yellow, orange and red, and transformed my humble small house into the one of a fairy tale.
They look graceful to me, though I’m not sure if others also would think the same way as I do.
In fact, I did not do anything, just let them climb the way they want.
I am pleased that they chose my house for them to grow when there are other bigger houses with more spacious surfaces in my neighborhood.
The recipe for this month is “Rice mixed with radish leaves” as the season of Daikon, white radish has started.
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It is juicy and sweet unlike the radish of the hot seasons.
It is perhaps the most popular winter vegetables for Japanese.
But people tend to eat only its body.
Daikon grows with its leaves, and the leaves are nutritious having the nutrients that white body parts do not carry.
We say “Ichibutu Zentai 一物全体” in Macrobiotics, which means whatever the nature blessed us in this world are being themselves with all the things they consist with.
Nothing is useless.
This philosophy can be adapted to all the creatures including the plants, animals and humans.
Therefore it is better to eat the whole food rather than a part of it.
The radish is a radish with its body and its leaves.
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You can cook and eat the leaves the same way as you do with any other leafy green vegetablem, and make it into salad, soup, sauté and pesto.
“Daikon Nanmeshi” is very tasty when you mix the leaves with the newly harvested rice which is softer and juicier.
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