Japan Centre, a Japanese supply on line store, sent me an e-mail last night with this recipe. I didn’t intend to post today but I like spinach and the recipe was interesting, so I decided to just make the spinach, post it and be done.

Of course, I couldn’t stop myself.  I looked in the refrigerator, saw leftovers and thought, bento box.

I only made one with the Japanese spinach salad, rice, griot with ti malice, steak with pear and tomato chutney and a star shaped hardboiled egg.

Goma-ae Sesame and Spinach Salad

1 lb fresh spinach, boiled for 2 minutes and drained

4 tbsp sesame seeds, ground

2 tbsp mirin

1 1/2 tbsp soy sauce

Mix all ingredients together.   Sprinkle with whole sesame seeds before serving.