This Week’s Recipe: Wakame Seaweed Salad

Inspiration: Wakame Seaweed Salad is the second recipe Good Eats, the tv show, inspired me to make after my day of furious lemon themed bakes! Unsure of what exactly I was looking for at my local Asian grocery store, I decided to make my first purchase of dried wakame seaweed over the interwebs.

Watching the seaweed rehydrate is a fun to watch as Alton Brown said!

Here’s the thing: This recipe doesn’t contain many moving parts.

As I’d already planned on replacing the radishes the recipe requested (thanks, stupid, stupid allergies), when I realized we’d used the avocado the night before for our taco Tuesday tacos, it didn’t require much effort to pivot the side dish that much further.

Though happily, out of the eleven ingredients used, I only substituted two. So from a numbers standpoint, that’s not bad. Right?

Hopefully, Alton Brown won’t mind.

In any case, in addition to called-for carrots, I chopped up a red bell pepper and part of a zucchini….and it turned out pretty tasty. Though next time, I will reduce the amount of seaweed slightly and increase the veggies so they’re roughly equal. (I like veggies.)

Christie: Colonel Race and Mr. Harley Quin are the only eaters who are adventurous enough to try/eat a seaweed salad regularly. I think. Though if Aziraphale, from Good Omens, can enjoy sushi, Poirot might learn to like seaweed salad…..

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