Pole Beans with Sesame-Miso Sauce & Seaweed
25 Jul 2011

Pole Beans with Sesame-Miso Sauce & Seaweed

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Perhaps you’ve tried one or another of these cold side dishes at Japanese restaurants: slips of seaweed dressed in a sweet sesame dressing, or crisp-tender green beans tossed in a savory, miso-based sauce. Well, I decided to put one and two together, with a fresh clutch of not-so-green beans from the market.

Seaweed Salad (with the stuff washed up on the shore)
22 Sep 2010

Seaweed Salad (with the stuff washed up on the shore)

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It’s a ubiquitous side on the sushi restaurant menu, but “seaweed salad” is just weeds from the sea, tossed with dressing. Often, it’s made from dried and reconstituted seaweed sheets, shred into ribbons. You can get packages of the dried stuff at any Japanese grocery. Or, if you’re at the beach, you’ll come across it, fresh, for sure.