2011/07/19-21 Dry Pickled Plum in the Sun

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I dried pickled plum and red shiso leaf  in the sun in the balcony.                           Dry plum vinegar too                           Both together                  

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2011/07/01 Pickled Plum & Red Shiso

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I harvested red shiso from garden.                           Pickled plum/already soaked with salt and now soked in salted water on May 27th.                           Mix salt in red shiso leaves      

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2011/05/29 Pickled Plum Class

I had pickled plum class today and had four students. I picked Japanese plum from my friends house for this class because no Japanese plum is available at Japanese grocery. Probably they will have plums sometime in June.

I already made pickled plum for my family on 5/27, posted to here.

Plum 1

Pickled plum

 

 

2011/05/27 Pickled Plum for my family

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I picked Japanese plum from my friend’s house, I picked 5.6kg plum total. I planted Japanese plum tree in the back yard when we lived in Sunnyvale. But we moved in condo in 1977, we do not have land to plant. It is in pot now, does not harvest plums so much. I only got

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2011/02/06 Daikon Salad with Butter Lettuce & Chrysanthemum

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I picked butter lettuce from organic garden too and mix with chrysanthemum. Thin slice daikon and carrot, salted and squeeze water. mix with mayonnaise, pepper, canned clam. You can eat seafood, both leaf and root vegetables in one salad.                           Daikon salad with

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2010/08/04~8/7 Pickled Plum Dry in the Sun

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I soaked red shiso leaves on 7/2 and left them in a jar for one month, and dried plums, red shiso leaf, plum vinegar in the sun on 8/4.                             Plums/Red shiso grew so well this year and I put a lots

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2010/07/02 5) Pickled Plum + Red shiso

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I picked red shiso leaves from vegetable garden and washed them.                             Added salt and rubbed red shiso leaves.                             Did this process twice. Squeeze red shiso leaves. When

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2010/06/30 Cooking Demo @Shirakawa Community Center

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I had the third cooking demo on 6/30 and I made brown rice ball. The fillings are light salted salmon and plum pickles. Ingredients/Brown rice, Sea salt, Dried laver seaweed,                                     Plum pickles/I make plum pickles every year.

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2010/06/18 4) Pickled Plum + Red Shiso

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My garden Bosnian neighbor gave me Bosnian tomato plants and I planted them few weeks ago. It is still chilly in CA this year, all vegetables grow slowly. Red shiso leaf is growing now.                                   I picked big red

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2010/05/28 3) Day 9 Pickled Plum and Plum Syrup

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Day 9 plum pickles, it’s soaked 100% now and it’s done. Need to wait red shiso leaf will grow.                             Day 9 plum syrup, there are rock sugar at the bottom. Needs to mix everyday.