Check this out for easy.
Stir fry minced beef with some grated ginger and a splash of sake. Drop in cubed firm tofu, mushrooms, green vegetables and whatever else you have and serve it up on rice. A five minute dinner that tastes like it took all day.
We had an American friend (living in Japan) come and stay on his way back over to America for a few days. I thought it would be good to try and ease him back into the American lifestyle with a BBQ. How do you think I went. This steak measured about 2 inches thick and […]
When I am in Japan I dream of Australian Hamburgers. When I am in Australia I dream of Japanese Tonkatsu (crumbed pork cutlets).
Last week I was in Australia fulfilling my Japanese dream, tonight I am back home in Japan cooking up a Tonkatsu dream meal. A ridiculously large mountain of shredded cabbage and grated carrot. […]
Have you ever wondered what they eat with their rice when they travel through space? Well apparently if they are in the Japanese (JAXA) part of the international space station they eat curry. I was privileged enough to sample some genuine JAXA space curry the other day. It must have been genuine because it cost […]
I picked up this ekiben in Sendai recently. Sendai is famous for a few things, in particular beef tongue. Without knowing it ( I was in a rush and just chose the nicest box) I landed some gyu (beef) tongue. This was fine slices that had been sauteed in a mild miso sort of sauce. Really […]
My 2 year old daughter got the obento of her dreams last week. Imagine a cute little beautifully presented lunch in a hard plastic reusable Hello Kitty. She was over the moon. In the end she ate hardly any of it, but that is what being 2 is all about. But she did love the box and […]
I took a holiday that involved a shinkansen bullet train journey last week. On the platform I grabbed the nicest looking obento to eat on the way. By chance I stumbled on a self heating beef obento.
The deal is, you pull a string that is sticking out of the cardboard box and after 7 minutes […]
This was a recipe adapted from Susanna Foo’s cookbook.
It’s quite surprising, the use of thyme and tomato — ingredients you don’t usually see in Chinese cuisine. However, curiosity got the better of me and I tried it anyway. While this is a dish that’s easy enough to tackle on a hot […]
Country-style ribs or spare ribs, cut into individual ribs or riblets
1/2 cup soy sauce
1/4 cup honey
1/2 teaspoon five-spice powder
juice of 1 lime
several grindings of black pepper
1/2 teaspoon salt, or to taste
toasted sesame seeds for topping
Cook ribs in the rest of the ingredients, in a large saucepan, over medium heat, until mixture is bubbly. Lower […]
Simple to prepare and very simple to eat, Ginger pork should fit right into the easy cooking category of any household’s recipe file.
Ingredients
Enough pork to feed the household, thin (6mm) loin cut up into bite size pieces
1 teaspoon of ginger juice (squeezed out of half a grated knob of ginger)
2 teaspoons of sake
1 tablespoon of frying […]
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