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I have a couple of things for you today. A new noodle recipe. And a (related) teaser for something to come later in the week – a sampler PDF of six recipes & photos from my new cookbook, Super Natural Every Day. The sampler includes some of my favorite recipes from the book, and I’m excited to be able to get some of the recipes into your hands. Finally!
Take a peek below to get a sense of what the overall recipe sampler is going to include. I’m including the recipe for Black Sesame Otsu (pictured) in this post, the rest of the recipes will be in the sampler when I post it. For those of you who liked the otsu recipe I included in my last book, I did this new version with a twist. I still use soba noodles and tofu, but everything gets slathered in a thinned-out, salty-sweet black sesame paste, and then topped with lots of sliced green onions. As a side note, the black sesame paste is pretty great on all sorts of other things as well – salads, spinach, roasted potatoes, green beans. Go to town with it.
To make the black sesame dressing / slather, you grind up black sesame seeds along with some pepitas and pine nuts with a mortar and pestle. Then you incorporate a bit of soy sauce, mirin, vinegar, sugar and the like to turn it into a flavor-packed slather.
Soba noodles are the foundation here. But don’t let it stop you if you’re out (or don’t keep soba on hand), swap in another pasta!
The whole situation makes for one of my favorite lunches. I think of this as the summertime version. I also love to do a version later in the year, as the weather cools, topped with lots of roasted vegetables.
Huge thanks to each of you who’ve pre-ordered the new book. I mean it, I feel fortunate to be able to work on projects like this. Ten Speed made a real effort to keep the price point reasonable, so the book is accessible to many.
One last late-breaking, book-related note. It looks like Super Natural Every Day is going to be published in the UK & Australia simultaneously with the US version. More news to come when I know more!
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Take a peek below to get a sense of what the overall recipe sampler is going to include. I’m including the recipe for Black Sesame Otsu (pictured) in this post, the rest of the recipes will be in the sampler when I post it. For those of you who liked the otsu recipe I included in my last book, I did this new version with a twist. I still use soba noodles and tofu, but everything gets slathered in a thinned-out, salty-sweet black sesame paste, and then topped with lots of sliced green onions. As a side note, the black sesame paste is pretty great on all sorts of other things as well – salads, spinach, roasted potatoes, green beans. Go to town with it.
To make the black sesame dressing / slather, you grind up black sesame seeds along with some pepitas and pine nuts with a mortar and pestle. Then you incorporate a bit of soy sauce, mirin, vinegar, sugar and the like to turn it into a flavor-packed slather.
Soba noodles are the foundation here. But don’t let it stop you if you’re out (or don’t keep soba on hand), swap in another pasta!
The whole situation makes for one of my favorite lunches. I think of this as the summertime version. I also love to do a version later in the year, as the weather cools, topped with lots of roasted vegetables.
Huge thanks to each of you who’ve pre-ordered the new book. I mean it, I feel fortunate to be able to work on projects like this. Ten Speed made a real effort to keep the price point reasonable, so the book is accessible to many.
One last late-breaking, book-related note. It looks like Super Natural Every Day is going to be published in the UK & Australia simultaneously with the US version. More news to come when I know more!
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