Taberu Rayu is at every supermarket I visit in Japan. What started as one product by one company has exploded to many variations. One of the most interesting ones I have come across is the basic...
Putting grilled salmon into the rice pot is one of our favorite takikomigohan recipes. Especially when we have some ikura or sujiko in the house. But I wanted a change-up on our our standard salmon t...
Who doesnt love bacon? While it may not be a traditional Japanese ingredient, bacon is used from time to time in the Japanese kitchen. This enoki bacon maki is a popular okazu or side dish. Best of a...
The popularity of taberu rayu has been a great food trend to observe. First was to see all of the copycat versions imitating the original taberu rayu. Now, there are many new products that are s...
May Japanese Seasonal SeafoodMany of the seafood from March are still in season in April. The cold waters still bring fish rich with fat that shines in sashimi or is nice for grilling. Asari clams ar...
The food of Tohoku is near and dear to my heart as my mother is from Yamagata and I grew up eating many dishes from this region. For days after 3/11 we prayed to hear that our relatives in Sendai wer...
Elizabeth Andohs newest cookbook, Kibo, documents recipes from Japans Tohoku region which was most affected by the triple calamity of 3/11. Some of the recipes are dishes that we often make at home. ...
One more attempt to get out of our routine of hijiki nimono made with abura-age. This time with chikuwa. Our last version was made with Satsuma-age fish cakes (recipe).The major difference betwe...
Asari clams for miso soupAsari miso soupAprilJapanese Seasonal SeafoodMany of theseafood from March are still in season in April. The cold waters still bringfish rich with fat that shines in sashimi ...
Debra Samuels is the author of My Japanese Table, published by Tuttle. The cookbook is filled with treasured recipes that are genersouly shared from Japanese friends of Debras over many years in Japa...
A friend gave me some Satsuma-age fish cakes and the brilliant idea of making nimono of the cakes with some hijiki. I added some carrots and made the dish as we usually do using the fish cakes instea...
Simmered squid and daikon is a great first dish for cooks new to squid. The best part of this dish is how tender the squid is. The hardest part of making this dish was cleaning the squid. If buy...
Changing up our routine of white rice I like to make takikomigohan. Rice steamed with toppings that are mixed into the rice after it has cooked. Some of my favorite takikomigohan are made with grille...
I love croutons. But on somedays I can feel myself overdosing on carbohydrates. Thats when I like to *grill a slice of abura-age (deep-fried tofu) until crispy, julienne, and add to a salad. These ar...
A food memory I have that dates back to when I was six years old was kakigori, shaved ice with syrupy toppings. I always had to have the creamy and sweet "miruku" (milk). The flavor was new t...
We had some Satsumaimo (Japanese sweet potatoes) in our house and made it into Japanese-style potato salad. Will definitely make this dish again. Here is the recipe for Japanese-style potato salad. J...
NHK recently had a nice program on cookbook author Harumi Kurihara. She talked a dish that was one of her family favorites, this very simple carrot salad. Crunchy julienned carrots with slivers of on...
Our addiction to taberu rayu has us picking up anything resembling the condiment. Our latest find is a thick sesame rayu paste, Nosetare Rayu Goma, by S&B.This reminds me a lot of the banbanji sa...
March is adelicious month for seafood. The cold waters still bring fish rich with fatthat shines in sashimi or is nice for grilling. Asari clams are great formaking into a quick vongolestyle pasta. G...
Who doesnt love a change-up? So many times in our house it is white rice for dinner. Not that theres anything wrong with that. Especially when our table is topped with a variety of dishes that call o...
Who can resist fried chips? I certainly can not. Instead of munching away on mass produced potato chips I try, when I can find the time, to fry up some vegetables. These renkon (lotus root) chips hav...
My favorite bento stall at depachika is Okowa Yonehachi, which is conveniently located at most department stores. Customers choose from a selection of usually five different sticky rice flavored with...
One of the strangest requests I had when working as a chef was a client who wanted to have "hamba-gu". What was interesting about this request was that the client was the president of a Japan...
We are addicted to taberu rayu, the mild chili oil filled with fried garlic chips. At the store this area of condiments has blossomed into other products, including this very interesting rayu or...
As a student at the French CulinaryInstitute, I assembled a toolkit of kitchen gear for the intense program aheadof me. The things I was given included a chefs jacket, black-and-whitecheckered pants,...
Growing up this condiment for rice was one of my favorite treats. A popular brand, Momoya, has a version called "Gohan Desu Yo" (literally, its time for dinner). Its simply nori simmered in a...
As you’d expect of a people whose tea culture extends back hundreds of years, the Japanese enjoy every type of cha imaginable—pungent, sweet, soft, grassy, clean and earthy. Leaves can be plucked, st...
Canned tuna is something we always have in the house, for that last minute meal or dish. I found this recipe on Bon Appetits website. It comes from a Japanese chef in Maine, chef Masa Miyake of ...
Hijiki is a dried sea vegetable that is always in our pantry. Simmered with some vegetables in a sweet soy broth it is a staple dish in our house, both on the table, and in obento. In this photo I us...
This simple dish was often served at my local izakaya when I lived in Shinjuku. The mama-san of the shop would blanch pea pods and toss them with sliced ham and dress with mayonnaise. Sometimes hard-...
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