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Gyoza is a very popular dish in Japan, mainly as one of the best companions to beer and/or ramen. If you have ramen, you almost have to have gyoza and beer. But gyoza can shine as an independent dish, especially when it’s homemade. The recipe I share here is a very standard one based on […]
Have you ever had leftover Daikon sitting in your fridge and you don’t know what to use it for? Or don’t know what to do with that beautiful leaves that come with white root? I’d like to share a few recipes to help you use up the whole Daikon. All dishes below can be made […]
This tasty ground chicken dish is often added over rice with a few other ingredients and make a colorful and delicious bento box or donburi (bowl). Above photo is a typical San Syoku Don (3 color bowl), with tori soboro, scrambled egg, and green bean. Not only used as flavorful rice topping, it can also […]
Tamagoyaki is the Japanese name for omelet, typically made by rolling the layer of egg mix as you cook. Probably you have seem thick and fluffy tamagoyaiki on nigiri-sushi. It takes some practice to make beautiful tamagoyaki seasoned with umami-packed dashi broth, and there is a special rectangular pan to make it in perfect shape, […]
I wasn’t a big fan of meaty meal like steak, but always loved Japanese style steak sauce served at a chain steak restaurant in Japan. Wanted to recreate that taste from the memory and after a few trial, I think I found a way to make easy replica of the sauce. The key ingredient is […]
Miso soup is something I crave in slow sunny weekend morning. And often the crave comes suddenly but I always have miso in my fridge and I can usually find something for soup ingredients: tofu, wakame (have dried wakame handy!), spinach, cabbage, onion, mushrooms, daikon, potato, aburaage (fried tofu), scallion, etc. When I’m in the […]
If you are looking to add more vegetable servings in your diet but feel lazy about coming up with veggie item for every meal, this is a great make-ahead dish. Make a zipped plastic bag full of this and you could be set for a week. It adds much needed colors and nutrients to a […]
Spinach is one of a popular ingredients in my kitchen. It’s quick to cook and add great vibrant color to the dish. Tastes great and has tons of nutrients as well. I will show you 2 simple spinach dishes here: one is simple blanched spinach with a dash of soy sauce, and the other is […]
Green pepper’s slight bitterness and ground beef works so well together with the sweet and rich miso flavor. Like a lot of my other recipes, this is one of the menu that calls for rice on the side. Miso is a great umami enhancer and rice is there to catch all the goodness. Yummmmmm. It […]
Kombu Cha I use here is not that healthy fermented drink which became very popular in recent years. Kombu Cha in Japanese means seaweed tea (kombu=seaweed, cha=tea). It’s basically powdered seaweed and you mix in a cup of hot water and enjoy the rich “umami” and aroma of kombu. You will find it in Japanese […]