The base of TERIYAKI sauce is a mixture of the same ratio of soy sauce, sake, Japanese rice wine, and mirin, Japanese sweet rice wine (or sugar). But you can adjust the ratio of each seasoning depending on the menu. Also, by combining with other seasonings, TERIYAKI sauce can develop into different and interesting tastes. This time, I would like to introduce novel TERIYAKI recipes using miso (soy bean paste), curry powder, and sansho (Japanese pepper).

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～ Scallop Broiled with Kinsanji Miso ～

For 4 servings
12 boiled scallops,
4tbsp. Kinsanji Miso,
1 tbs. soy sauce,
2 tbs. mirin (Japanese sweet rice wine)
(Garnish) sweet green pepper, oil, as needed

1.Add soy sauce and mirin to Kinsanji Miso and mix well.
2.Add scallops to ① and lightly rub miso paste with hands. Allow 5 minutes to settle
3.Broil the scallops

～ Soy Bean Meatballs ～

For 4 servings
232 kcal4.8g fiber, 1.6g sodium

160g boiled soy beans,
160g ground chicken without fat,
1/2 onion,
1 clove ginger,
1 egg, 1 tbs plain flour
1 tbsp. sesame seeds,
3 tbsp. soy sauce,
1 tbsp. mirin (Japanese sweet rice wine),
2 tsp. sugar, 8 green leeks
(Side dish) 4 eggplants,
A pinch of pepper

1.Mince onion and grate ginger. Mash soy beans in a bowl.
2.Add ground chicken, onion, beaten egg, grated ginger, and plain flour to ① mashed soy beans. Mix well until the whole becomes sticky.
3.Heat sesame oil in a frying pan, place ② shaped as flat round pieces, and cook until both sides become brown. Pour in 100cc hot water, soy sauce, mirin, and sugar. With a lid on, cook until the juice becomes thicken.
4.Cut eggplants in round slices. Place on a heat-resistant plate, pour in 50cc water, sprinkle a pinch of pepper, and cover with saran wrap. Cook in a microwave for 5 minutes. Place the soybean meatballs on a place with eggplant on the side. Top with shredded leek to finish.

～ Spareribs Curry Flavored ～

For 4 servings
4 boiled eggs,
8 spareribs,
8 potatoes,
6 tbsp. soy sauce,
4 tbsp. mirin (Japanese sweet rice wine),
1 tbsp. curry powder

1Peel the shell of boiled eggs. Peel potatoes.
2Boil water in a pot, place spareribs in, stir once, and drain in a strainer.
3Place the spareribs ② in a pot again and cook with boiled eggs, soy sauce, mirin, curry powder and 3 cups of water for 20 minutes.
4Place potatoes in. Add water until it just covers potatoes. Place a lid on and cook for another 15 minutes.
5Take off a lid and cook down until the juice halves in volume.

～ Chicken Wings shimmered with Sansho, Japanese Pepper ～

For 4 servings
12 chicken wings,
6 tbsp. soy sauce,
4 tbsp. mirin (Japanese sweet rice wine),
2 tbsp. sugar,
2 tbsp. berries of Sansho, Japanese pepper

1.Place soy sauce, mirin, sugar and 3 cups of water in a pot and heat up. When boils, add chicken wings and berries of Sansho and shimmer for 15 minutes.
2.Take off a lid and cook down until the juice halves in volume over medium heat.

～ Chicken shimmered with Orange Sauce ～

For 4 servigns

2 chicken thighs (600g),
3 tbsp. plain flour, 1/2 tbsp. oil
3 tbsp. soy sauce,
2 tbsp. sake (Japanese rice wine),
2 tbsp. mirin (Japanese sweet rice wine),
3 oranges,
4 turnips

1.Poke the skin of chicken with a fork thoroughly.
2.Coat with four lightly and remove off the extra. Squeeze the juice out of two oranges. Peel turnips and made fine cuts crosswise. Sprinkle salt and leave for a while. When softened, drain well.
3.Heat oil in a frying pan and cook chicken on skin side over low heat with a lid on for 5 minutes. Flip the chicken over to cook the other side with a lid on for another 5 minutes.
4.Wipe off the oil extracted from chicken and pour in the seasoning mixture. Stirring occasionally, cook down until chicken becomes glazed. Stop the heat.
5.Slice the chicken into bite-sized pieces and place on a plate. Garnish with orange slices and pickled turnips.

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The above photo was taken March 1, 2013. The fruits were growing steadily though the color was still green.

These plants have grown so high they reach the ceiling. There was no way for me to install supports for them so I just let them grow. I never thought they would grow this big. I suppose the tallest one was about 2.2 meters high. The plants you see in the above picture were grown in the heated room. How well did the plants grow in the unheated room?

Of the plants in the unheated room, these are the taller ones. I’d guess they are about 1.7 meters high.

The dense plants grew without wilting. For this experiment, I cared for the plants as little as possible so they were naturally dense with many leaves and branches. Looking back on the experiment, good results growing the plants in the dense setting required adequate care. Some of the dense plants seem to have been damaged, as their branches and leaves were entwined and hurting others. Although the hydroponic method provides plants with good quality nutrients, I think each plant in the dense setting had difficulty receiving adequate nutrition. In this setting, if the plants had had more water circulation and more frequent fertilization, the problem of slow development may have been solved. Even so, the problem of entangled branches remains. Therefore, I think you should trim extra branches as you usually do during watering. The seedlings in the following photo are planted at two-finger intervals from each other.

These are the plants with the firm branches and leaves. I moved the base of these plants to the window. I hoped they would grow tall. Since the poles were not long enough, I used strings suspended from the curtain rail to support the growing seedlings.

The plants in different settings have been blooming and developing. Every seedling has been growing well. I’ve just been watering (with liquid fertilizer) lately. It’s very easy and I think this method is fully practical for home use. I hope the future reports will provide you with useful information.

The above photo was taken at the end of February. The plants have grown rapidly over the past month. The window is about 185 centimeters high, so you can see how large they have grown. Since the room was heated in the daytime, these plants grew faster than those in the other room. The poles were then too short, so I suspended the tops of the plants from strings that I attached to the ceiling.

As you see in the picture above, the plant in the heated room bore small fruits. I had been concerned about the method of pollinating tomato flowers, but those fruits proved that the flowers were successfully pollinated. Those fruits were still small but I hoped they would grow larger.

The above plants are the tomatoes in the unheated room. They were not as tall as the previous ones, but obviously they had been growing day by day.

The plants in the above picture are also grown in the unheated room. This tomato plant has thicker stalks compared to the other tomato plants. There was no particular difference between this plant and the others, but this one has strong leaves and stalks.

The leaves are shiny, firm and lush. I look forward to its further growth.

At last, the plants have borne fruit. Five months have passed since I seeded. Possibly, since they grew through the winter, growth was slow. It seemed they needed more time to be ready for the harvest.

However, signs of blooming were seen gradually here and there; the plants have grown taller and taller. I noted a big difference in growth rate between the heated setting and unheated one. As was expected, growth was delayed in the colder environment. There were three different settings in the unheated room: 1) plants housed in flower pots, 2) those housed in a big planter, and 3) lots of plants densely grown in a large sieve basket. Initially, the growth rates of those plants looked the same, but when you looked more closely at the dense ones, every single seedling in the basket looked frail. Many of the dense plants had thinner stalks with leaves more lightly colored than others. However, they all grew well and none died. I hoped to harvest all settings.

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February had come. We still had cold winter days. During the day we felt warmth where we could catch the sunlight, but as soon as the sun was gone we felt really cold. I think the cherry tomatoes also endure severe temperature changes throughout the day. How will the changes affect the plant’s growth? The plant’s survival was what concerned me most but I haven’t yet seen anything to worry about. All the tomato plants in different settings were growing well.

Please compare this picture with the previous one. You can see they are growing. I see growth every day.

The flowers are blooming vigorously, too. I hoped they would bear fruit. Here, I was concerned with pollination. Unlike plants in the wild, these were grown indoors with no insect to pollinate them. Also, there was no wind to assist in pollination. What could I do to help?

To pollinate cherry tomatoes, you need to shake them. Please take a look at the picture of the flowers. In the center of the petals there is a cylinder including a stamen and pistil. Pollination can be achieved just by shaking the flowers. Since there is little wind in an indoor environment, you have to shake the flowers artificially. I had a strong feeling for the flowers that bloomed for the first time, so I lightly patted the flowers each time I watered them. In the future, when the plants have a lot of flowers, I plan to study the pollination results between shaken flowers and unshaken ones.

Other tomato plants have had flowers and buds.

The plants of the above picture are the “dense” ones. I haven’t seen any flowers or buds in this setting, but the plants were growing steadily. However, here I noticed differences in growing rates among the plants. Some seemed to absorb nutrients well, others didn’t. “Will the slow-growing tomato plants wilt and die?” I wondered. Their growth was too thick to be captured in a picture. They also absorbed a greater amount of water.

It’s only February and we still had a lot of cold winter days. The time of bloom and fruition of these tomatoes was in the middle of the cold winter. What worried me most was whether they were pollinated safely. It is amazing that the plants have grown to that big from seeds, and I was deeply impressed to see little yellow flowers bloom. I hadn’t put extra effort into cultivating these plants. Hydroponic culture allowed me to grow them conveniently. Please join me in watching the future growth of these cherry tomatoes.

The cherry tomatoes were growing slowly but steadily during winter. The poles I used when transplanting were no longer tall enough so I replaced them with longer ones. The plants in the above photo are the tomatoes grown in the heated room. Since this room was warmer, these plants grew faster than the others.

The blossoms starting to bloom. They were the first ones.

The plants in the above photo are the cherry tomatoes grown in the unheated room. This is the one in which I put a lot of seedlings in a large sieve basket during the transplanting stage. Though the room temperature was relatively low, it caught the sun pretty well so the plants were growing well, comparably to those in the heated room. Since I didn’t remove extra branches and leaves, you can see the plants are denser than those in the previous picture. I wondered how those dense branches and leaves would affect future growth. The larger they grew, the more water they absorbed. You need to track how much water the plants absorb in a day and adjust your watering.

Please take a look at those tomato plants. They were grown in the unheated room and didn’t catch the sun very well. Here I noticed a distinguishing characteristic not seen in the other plants.

These tomato plants had firmer stalks and leaves compared to ones in the other settings. The stalks were thicker and its leaves were colored a strong dark green. The cherry tomatoes planted in this experiment were of the same variety. The only thing in this setting different from the others was that they were grown in a large planter. I look forward to their further growth.

The cherry tomatoes steadily grew through the winter. Some had blossoms bloom; others had buds that were about to bloom. None died. I adjusted the pole length according to the plants’ growth. I thought about using nets but decided not to due to lack of space. At this stage, I didn’t even consider how tall the plants would grow. I was amazed at their growth every day.