On my wander today I stop at a wayside stall and buy a bag of tarot from a grinning old lady who must be at least a centenarian. Tarot is my favorite vegetable.

A bowl of tarot roots

It appears to grown in swampy fields where Egrets live.

Those are tarot plants in the background.

I had never come across this vegetable before Okinawa. Also I have never bought it er raw. It seems always to be sold already boiled.

Tonight’s feast – Pork, tarot,lotus root, mushrooms. There is also Hokkaido smoked Salmon as a starter.

I marinate everything in soya sauce, brown sugar and water and then cook it.

Then I eat it.