Welcome to a Japanese cuisine inspired edition of What I Ate Wednesday.

I had been craving Japanese food for a while but didn't want to go out and spend money.

But on this morning I thought, why wait? Let's start with miso soup.

It's so easy and you've seen me make this before.

I also made some rice the night before so I had some of that to fill out this breakfast.

The topping was inspired by Furikake but uses nutritional yeast for the savory flavour so

there is no need for the MSG crystals commonly found in commercial blends and of course,

no fish.

I had this outside as even though this doesn't look like the most beautiful day, the grey

skies and barely there rain reminds me of home, or my past home rather, in Vancouver

BC.

During the day, I snacked on cut apples. When they are cut up small like this, I feel like

I'm having candy. Like nature's skittles.

For lunch, I made some sushi. But before I show you what kind I made, let me show you

some sushi that you guys sent in!

Beachamberlain and Soddingsociety on Instagram both made tomato maki. Tomato is not a very

common maki ingredient but it's seriously good. Especially with fresh heirloom tomatoes.

Sushi can be easy to make and you can really put anything that you like in there. Soddingsociety

also recently posted this spread of avocado maki and seitan nigiri. How awesome does that

seitan look?

hristinasimone even put baked spicy peanut tofu into sushi! I haven't tried that combination

before and now I really want to. I bet it was delicious.

For myself, I'm using up leftovers.

First, one avocado and cucumber roll.

Next, a more unusual roll.

I've got some leftover beans dressed up with homemade teriyaki sauce. There's sweet sauteed

onion and carrots in there too. Whenever I have beans or other iron rich foods, I make

sure to have other foods with plenty of vitamin C too to help with iron absorbtion.

It's just for myself so I'm just doing quick rolls with the rice on the inside. If you

want to learn the rice on the outside or uramaki method, check out my vegan california roll

video.

For dinner, I started with making some negi-tofu filling which is my take on negitoro which

used to be my first or second favourite type of maki.

For this, I have chopped firm tofu but soft or medium tofu would also be good.

Then toss with a few tablespoons of double strength vegetable broth and chopped green

onion, just the dark green parts.

I'm adding a few drops of roasted sesame oil to give a fatty flavour and the pleasant aroma

of roasted sesame. Toro is a fatty cut of fish so this helps to create the mouthfeel

of the original sushi roll while we leave our fishy friends in the ocean.

And I covered the bowl and let it rest for a few minutes so the flavours could mingle

and do their thing.

It was then that I remembered I had some cabbage in the fridge that was begining to turn color.

Gross. So I cut away the dark bits and the rest was good.

I didn't really know what to do with it as I had no plan so I went to my default and

started with sauteing some ginger and garlic.

After a few seconds over high heat, I added sliced onions.

Then, the sliced cabbage and a pinch of sea salt.

It only takes a few minutes to cook. We just want the onions to turn sweet and the cabbage

to be cooked through but not overcooked. Because that's gross. At least in a dish like this.

So since I had this hot food, I decided to go for a decontructed sushi plate. Sort of.

I've got some warm sushi rice, the chilled negi-tofu, and the hot savory onions and cabbage.

This was so good, guys. Simple, nutritious, satisfying and just plain tasty.

So that was my food day, how was yours? What kind of Japanese inspired vegan eats do you

guys like? I'd love to hear your ideas too.

As always thanks so much for watching this video and thanks especially to those who take

the time to like and leave a thoughtful comment. As you might guess, these videos do require

a lot of work and recipe testing does also tests my grocery budget. I am making it work

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you want.

Thanks again, guys and I'll see ya again for Friday's easy vegan recipe video.

Bye for now.