{"id":1256,"date":"2016-11-11T01:20:11","date_gmt":"2016-11-11T01:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gentianeetantoine.com\/igk\/index.php\/2016\/11\/11\/20161110barter\/"},"modified":"2016-11-11T01:20:11","modified_gmt":"2016-11-11T01:20:11","slug":"20161110barter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gentianeetantoine.com\/igk\/index.php\/2016\/11\/11\/20161110barter\/","title":{"rendered":"Barter"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 2224px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img src=\"http:\/\/static1.squarespace.com\/static\/54c4c3bde4b03dfa2a325d98\/550e8df8e4b047e3d942a260\/582519f88419c21d80100fe1\/1478826491947\/FullSizeRender.jpg\" alt=\" Takenoko imo - \u305f\u3051\u306e\u3053\u828b\u00a0 \"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Takenoko imo &#8211; \u305f\u3051\u306e\u3053\u828b\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It&#8217;s been a year now I&#8217;ve started some barter process with our neighbors in the country. Some gingko nuts here, some citrus fruits, some plums, some bread etc&#8230; in exchange one would sew a kimono, teach me how to make umeboshi, give us a few pickled vegetables, and more often they would give us fresh vegetables from their gardens. Last weekend we&#8217;ve found on our door step a bag full of turnips, sato imo and a very strange vegetable that looked like a root that has grown and that I have never seen before. Since a few weeks ago I gave gingko nuts to several people, I couldn&#8217;t identify where the veggies came from and ask directly what was this strange vegetable. I couldn&#8217;t find it either in any cooking book. So I decided to use my resourceful Instagram friends to help me in that task and in less than 5min I had an answer that confirmed my guess. It was a sort of sato imo, but instead of the round gingle bell like, it&#8217;s a specie called bamboo shoot imo (takenoko imo &#8211; \u305f\u3051\u306e\u3053\u828b) because of its bamboo shoot shape.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I cooked it in dashi with the skin (washed), together with turnips and peeled the root once boiled. The skin peels very easily. I seeved it with barley miso and grilled salmon from Iwate, and a bowl of plain rice. I really like the creamy texture of sato imo and this takenoko imo was really delicious.\u00a0 For the miso I hesitated between white miso and barley miso, but I found that the granulous texture of the barley miso a much better fit with the takeneko imo, and I was not disappointed. Fresh simple ingredients soeak for themselves, that&#8217;s it!<\/p>\n<p>      <img src=\"http:\/\/static1.squarespace.com\/static\/54c4c3bde4b03dfa2a325d98\/550e8df8e4b047e3d942a260\/58251bb9414fb5e851ca00c6\/1478826948753\/IMG_0228.JPG\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a year now I&#8217;ve started some barter process with our neighbors in the country. Some gingko nuts here, some citrus fruits, some plums, some bread etc&#8230; in exchange one would sew a kimono, teach me how to make umeboshi, give us a few pickled vegetables, and more often they would give us fresh&#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/gentianeetantoine.com\/igk\/index.php\/2016\/11\/11\/20161110barter\/#more-1256\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1259,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[359,383,367],"tags":[156,926,321,22,21,26,315,750,52,12,643,88,925,154],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gentianeetantoine.com\/igk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1256"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gentianeetantoine.com\/igk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gentianeetantoine.com\/igk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gentianeetantoine.com\/igk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gentianeetantoine.com\/igk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/gentianeetantoine.com\/igk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gentianeetantoine.com\/igk\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gentianeetantoine.com\/igk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gentianeetantoine.com\/igk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gentianeetantoine.com\/igk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}