During the last weekend, I happened to swing by the local Asian market. I seldom go there. In fact the last time I went there was four to five years ago. The reason is simple. They don’t care for the expiration date of all their merchandise. I saw their items that had already expired five to six years ago. I also had witnessed the store owner trying to make the expiration date invisible by scratching by his thumb finger. Another time I heard the store owner complained about the Japanese customers who always checked the expiration date of each of their merchandise.
Despite of my decision of not going to the store anymore, today I went to the store because I needed to buy a sweet rice in order to make a homemade mirin. When I went to the Asian market in the big city last weekend, I forgot buying it even it was written in my shopping list.
My going to the store turned out great, because I unexpectedly found kabocha squashes in the store. The regular grocery stores seldom carry kabocha squashes.
I was happy to get a kabocha. Now I can cook the sweet vegetable soup.
It is one of the macrobiotics recipes. The soup should be helpful for diabetes.
The soup needs four types of vegetables; onion, cabbage, kabocha, and carrot.
All the vegetables need to be diced into small pieces. This is a healing food, so I didn’t want to cheat by using a food processor. So, I carefully cut them by hand. It took me almost two hours to cut vegetables.
The soup turned out to be a pretty good amount for me to eat it every day for two weeks. I hope it will be beneficial for me to cleanse my blood stream.
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