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Sea urchins love the taste of cabbage!
・What are Cabbage urchins?In recent years, “isoyake”, which describes the depletion of seaweed from coastal fishing grounds, has occurred nationwide in Japan. The decrease in seaweed-fed turban shells and abalone has become a problem due to this. The causative organisms for this isoyake, or shore-burning are the Murasaki sea urchin. This purple sea urchin is not edible for no meat due to lack of food from shore burning, but instead of seaweed, we gave Miura’s specialty cabbage and cultivated it for a short period of time to make it delicious. This is the “Cabbage urchin” or “Cabbage sea urchin”. ・How does it taste?According to Kanagawa prefecture, Cabbage urchins, or Murasaki…
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Huge cabbages are harvested in Hokkaido.
It’s getting colder these days, and the delicious winter dishes with vegetables are coming up. According to FNN prime online, a supermarket in Hokkaido claim to have oversized vegetables this season. These cabbage have about 50 cm in diameter. The poster used these for pickeed herrings. According to the farmer, making these cabbages is ‘very difficult’. Although having very big impact, consumers say that “if we purchase these huge cabbages, nothing else will fit in the cart or car”. The price is about 1000 Yen, or 10 Dollars. The strain is named “Sapporo Oodama”, which literally means “big ones from Sapporo”. I wonder if they are as delicious as they…
