Hossa! Welcome to Leafbiting week 1. Each year,  Foshu runs Leafbiting and invites others to join in. I use this as a means to test my resolve and to expand my cooking repertoire into more and more tasty meals I can make throughout the year. I don't tend to cook meat for myself much anyways, so this works out great for me.

I'll look at posting some of my favorites each week until the start of December.

This week is sesame noodles!

I was introduced to this by two women in the Virginia Appalachians when I was a young teen, and I loved it so much that I begged off the recipe from them. I only recently found where I hid the darn thing, and thought it would be a great intro dish for week one. No cooking even needed, apart from boiling a pot of spaghetti noodles. This is purely a Mediterranean-style comfort food, carbs and tasty things, so use as a side dish and eat plenty of other things with it.

5 tbs sesame tahini
5 - 7 cloves garlic, ground or diced fine
3 tbsp ground ginger root
2 tbsp powdered ginger
1/4 cup apple cider vinegar
1/4 cup tamari sauce (sweet soy sauce)
2 tbs sugar

Blend above ingredients and toss with 1/2 lbs of noodles. Top with sesame seeds (white or black), crushed red pepper, nasturtiums, and scallions.

Easy enough, and quite tasty. If you're joining in for Leafbiting, or just dropping by, I hope you'll enjoy this. See you all next week!