I started Cocoroaji while living in Tokyo and it was filled only with restaurant reviews. After the most important person showed up in my life, we decided to turn to a new life chapter – moving from Japan to Germany.
From a foodie heaven to a food desert during COVID, this drastic change forced me to cook every day, every single meal. On top of that, after reading a book and watching 3 documentaries on Netflix, we tried to cut off meat at home and focus on vegetable cooking.
As Asians, we love rice and hot-served food. But living in a European country, adapting to a mostly plant-based diet with Asian-like flavour, there ain’t many options.
Since I’m facing this challenge, exploring different vegetarian dishes and blogging about them has become my hobby. And most importantly, I can simply look up my blog and remake it again! That’s how I started to write about our cooking. (But we ain’t vegetarian nor vegan. We just love eating vegetables!)
Our food is nothing near photogenic, but it’s always nourishing.
My goal is simple: use simple and handy ingredients to cook a healthy and delicious meal easily every day.
Take the recipes as guidelines, not rules. Follow your instincts, and cook whichever vegetables you have on hand. They’ll turn out to be fine. If cocoroaji inspires you to cook and eat more vegetables, I’ll be very happy!
What does cocoroaji mean?
I created this word, cocoroaji .
It can be literally translated in Japanese : ‘cocoro’ (こころ) is heart or soul, while my name also has a ‘heart’ in it.; ‘aji’ (あじ) means taste. You can say it’s something expressed from my heart. Don’t laugh, I quite like it, and I hope you feel it the same way.
So, please come to join me, to embrace the wonderful and colourful vegetables together, or just come by to say hi.
Let’s keep in touch!
Cheers,
Wing