A vegetarian foodie in Japan...

Today was a productive day.  I scoured the shelves of my local supermarkets (and one not local import market) looking for ingredients for my recently found recipes.  I was 90% successful.  The one ingredient I didn't find was celery.  I've bought it here before so maybe it will appear again (hopefully soon).

Anyway, I've not really started cooking for the week.  This is just a teaser. 

I made some delicious tofu:

I had some trouble finding some of the ingredients but I think with my substitutions it was good.  A bit too oily but that can be remedied if I make it again.

Next, this salad is a weird combination of ingredients but it's actually quite delicious. 

I omitted the bacon but you can throw it in there if you so desire.  Also, I didn't use this to top a lettuce salad.  One final change is I added just a little honey to the dressing, a delightful change.

Are crepes dessert or breakfast food?  I've always eaten crepes for breakfast but here in Japan anything sweet you might think of as a breakfast food (ie. pancakes, waffles and crepes) is a dessert.  Today I had them for dessert and tomorrow they will be breakfast.

Big changes occured where this recipe is concerned.  First of all I don't care for ricotta and even if I did I've never seen it here.  I used softened cream cheese and I mixed it with not only the lemon peel and honey but also some of the leftover lemon boiling water.  These crepes are to die for.  If I can't blog anymore it's because I am too fat having eating an offensive amount of these crepes.

That's it for the food preview.  More to come soon!  I hope your weekend is starting off stellar.