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I chose the ink stained black sesame ice cream while ZL had the ginger. The ginger had zing and little bits of ginger, but the black sesame was slick, toasty, mildly sweet and unique enough (but not too exotic) that left me happy with the selection.
Seen in: www.torontolife.com/features/nami/
A deliciously tangy and refreshing lemon poppyseed cake made moist and lower in fat than buttery loaves with the use of low-fat Quark cheese. Three lemons donated their rinds to this half-wholegrain baby, along with a spoonful of juice. I ran out of poppyseeds so used a few black sesame seeds as well!
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Thanks to Chean, we had a lot of good laughs over this little fella! Who knew an innocent scoop of kurogoma ice cream can evoke so much crazed laughter?
One thing Jewish grandmas and Chinese people have in common, the sesame wafer. The only difference is my Grandmas were made of tan color sesames.
There is an assortment of eight different delicious crackers making up a pack of Yaraku.
Flavours include :
Nori (Prawn with Seaweed), Hime Yukari (Prawn), Kuro Mame (Hokkaido Black Bean), Sakura Ebi Ao Nori (Sakura Prawn with Seaweed), Kuro Goma (Black Sesame), Macha (Green Tea), Murasaki Yimo (Purple Sweet Potato) & Ko Ebi (Okinawa's BBQ Salted Prawn)
A deliciously tangy and refreshing lemon poppyseed cake made moist and lower in fat than buttery loaves with the use of low-fat Quark cheese. Three lemons donated their rinds to this half-wholegrain baby, along with a spoonful of juice. I ran out of poppyseeds so used a few black sesame seeds as well!
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Chef Andrew Wilson was the creative force behind the "daily sashimi" plate for this TorontoLife.com feature (yes, this was an arranged session). This series is dedicate to chef's efforts that afternoon.
Colborne Lane's Daily Sashimi
yuzu vinaigrette + pickled ginger + cucumber + black sesame + shiso ($17)
Cubes of hamachi lightly tossed in calamansi vinaigrette then artfully paired with:
avocado puree
cauliflower puree
puffed tapioca
black sesame powder
black sesame pearls
julienned scallion greens
compressed cucumber
calamansi vinaigrette
Ontario radish rounds
pickled ginger (thin orange rolls)
pickled cauliflower
shiso cress
thai basil cress
coriander cress
Cookstown Greens flowers
One thing to note is that the plating and ingredients do vary depending on the insipiration (perhaps freshness factor of the fish) of the day. Fish may be replaced with salmon, tuna or snapper however the Asian elements are always laced within the dish.
A deliciously tangy and refreshing lemon poppyseed cake made moist and lower in fat than buttery loaves with the use of low-fat Quark cheese. Three lemons donated their rinds to this half-wholegrain baby, along with a spoonful of juice. I ran out of poppyseeds so used a few black sesame seeds as well!
yummysmells.blogspot.com/2011/09/baking-with-herbs-annd-p...
One of the best soft serve experiences in Japan--the tofu soft serve from Kyo Zu An. If you've seen videos for this online, the person serving the ice cream will actually tip the cone completely upside down and wiggle it. This shows just how bouncy the texture is. I chose to add a kurogoma (black sesame) tofu layer to mine which was a fabulous idea in retrospect.
Kyo Zu An. Arashiyama, Kyoto.
There is an assortment of eight different delicious crackers making up a pack of Yaraku.
Flavours include :
Nori (Prawn with Seaweed), Hime Yukari (Prawn), Kuro Mame (Hokkaido Black Bean), Sakura Ebi Ao Nori (Sakura Prawn with Seaweed), Kuro Goma (Black Sesame), Macha (Green Tea), Murasaki Yimo (Purple Sweet Potato) & Ko Ebi (Okinawa's BBQ Salted Prawn)
photo courtesy of the accidental photographer, steph. i say accidental not to be rude or anything but when i downloaded the photos off my camera i found that she managed to capture this when the ENTIRE TIME that she was trying to shoot she just kept screaming I CANT MAKE IT FOCUS HELP HELP.
ps: i was brulee-ing the black sesame créme brulèes.
Autumn is the season for Persimmons, I decided to try out this recipe for a popular Northern Chinese street snack
Black sesame on dark chocolate on shortcrust pastry. Based on wscwong.typepad.com/dessert_by_candy/2013/03/early-pie-da...
Black Sesame Ice Cream with a gooseberry, strawberries, blackberries and raspberries - Yum.
I suspect I had reasonably high expectations after hearing much about Japango's authenticity or how many had epiphanous experiences with the omakase meals. I've dined at Japango on a number of occasions and found it fair but never had the chance to try to much tooted omakase until this special day. I must confess, I was a little underwhelmed, albeit a good "value" for the number of dainty courses we were served. I am still searching for the best omakase/kaiseki-type experience available in our fair city (I'm satisfied with the sushi offerings by both Chef John Lees) but fear that those I had in Japan really did spoil me too much. That or I've become what SM has teased me as being (I repeat, I am *not* a "food snob," I just know what I like).
I do give the chef at Japango credit, as his tiny kitchen was able to produce numerous courses for a packed restaurant (and a few special menus for those who didn't eat raw fish!). Yes, Japango is still a tiny room, and it was rather tight for us to maneuver (or for the servers to do so with arms full of food). I don't know if this would ever change but it adds to a certain close homey feeling that I've always associated with this restaurant. Every item was decent, but nothing really stood out for me except for the nice presentation of the raw fish, and that well known little fried crab that's in just about every food-tograph of a dinner at Japango.
I must also highlight that this was a special evening (thanks to the kind organizers and hosts) as we had booked the entire restaurant (it's not that big) on a Sunday, when Japango is normally closed. The fact that the fish we did have was very fresh (and probably why we saw the sea bream appear in most all the courses) was a notable highlight.
Another note: Notice how we weren't served the ubiquitous salmon! Bonus marks for Japango. :)
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Bukit Tagar, Selangor, Malaysia.
Sesamum radiatum Schumach. & Thonn. Pedaliaceae. CN: Benniseed, Wild beniseed, Black benniseed, Black sesame, Vegetable sesame, Ewe atura. Naturalized from Africa; in Malesia, reported from Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra and Borneo (Sabah & Sarawak). Naturalized, throughout Peninsular Malaysia. Habitat - In Peninsular Malaysia, roadsides and abandoned tin mining areas. Plants are overrun by ants, probably attracted by the extra-floral nectaries. Robust herbs, 0.9–1.2 m tall, hairy, leaves with a strong foetid smell when crushed. It is used in Africa as a leafy vegetable. In folk medicine as a laxative, an antidote to scorpion venom, and to treat sprains and ease childbirth.
Synonym(s):
Sesamopteris radiata DC. ex Meisn.
Sesamum occidentale Regel & Heer
Ref. and suggested reading:
FRIM Flora Database
www.theplantlist.org/tpl/record/kew-2587572
www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?33753
Vegetables, by Gerardus J. H. Grubben, pp. 465
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Black sesame on dark chocolate on shortcrust pastry. Based on wscwong.typepad.com/dessert_by_candy/2013/03/early-pie-da...
Even though we were very full, we had to end with the ice-cream assortment - clockwise from upper left: yuzu citron flavour, honey wasabi flavour, and black sesame flavour.
My favourite of the three is the wasabi flavour because it's strong and clears your nose! Second place is yuzu because of the citrus peel ... so nice and light and refreshing. Black sesame is cool too, but sadly comes in third. But in the photo I put it in the front because it's the most interesting looking.