Easy Roasted Kabocha Squash Recipe
Roasted kabocha squash — creamy, sweet and faintly savoury. The simplest way to cook the autumn pumpkin stacked at every market from October.
AUTUMN
Ginnan: Ginkgo Nuts
Ginkgo nuts, roasted in the shell. A short, faintly bitter autumn snack that appears on izakaya counters once the leaves turn.
Japanese Kabocha no Nimono (Simmered Pumpkin) Recipe
Nimono is the Japanese word for a simmered dish. Kabocha simmered in dashi, soy and mirin until soft and sweet is the everyday autumn version.
Hoshigaki: Dried Persimmon
In the winter, we can get dried persimmons in Japan. Dried persimmons are made in several countries in Asia. They
Asian pear, called ‘Nashi’
This is Nashi pear also called Japanese pear, Asian pear, Chinese pear and so on. They are very different from