Ruth from Once Upon a Feast is asking the foodbloggers’ world to join her for the Weekend Cookbook Challenge in August and host a foreign party – what a great idea! She says she is going to cook Indian food (which I love), so I focused on another of my favorite foreign cuisines, Japanese food. A bunch of lovely green beans from my weekly organic veggie delivery seemed to be an obvious choice for Japanese Green Beans with Sesame. There is also cucumber salad with black sesame (just cucumber, sesame, a drop of rice vinegar and a drop of soy sauce), a ball of wasabi, and some pickled cabbage (bought at an Asian store). Of course we had to have sake with our meal. A platter of shake sashimi...

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