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.
Tonight my wife cooked for us (always a welcome occurrence). She cooked brown rice and served green veges, mushrooms and sesame chicken with a sesame dipping sauce. Why do I never think of good ideas like that?
Today is the last day of Golden Week here in Japan. It is made up of a string of public holidays (this week broken up by some work days for some malicious reason). Yesterday was Boys day so I thought I would share one last bit of boy’s day for this year. This morning we opened some […]
The 5th May in Japan is a holiday to celebrate Boy’s Festival. It is all about healthy growing boys and there are a lot of symbols ranging from beautiful flowing carp streamers (koinobori) to samurai replicas. Of course being Japan, there is traditional food as well. My favourite Boy’s day food is Kashiwamochi.
It is simply […]
This is a relatively quick dish that can be cheap if you live in Japan or Canada or expensive if you live somewhere like Australia. I bought my salmon for about 250 yen ($2.50) while it might cost $10 in Australia.
All you need to do is grill some salmon until it is barely cooked and […]
Miro, my Slovakian friend cooked this rice pudding for me the other day. It takes a little time, but the results were well worth it. Here is how he did it.
boil 380g of rice in 1 litre of milk stirring continually until it is soft (the boring part)
mix in two pinches of salt then let it […]
Last weekend we visied friends in Sendai and the first first night we were there they put together a sushi party for us. The ingredients?
Sushi rice (vinegared rice)
Small nori sheets
Plates of fresh sashimi (tuna, salmon, scallop, prawn, octopus, roe)
A plate of vegetables
Miso soup
Green tea
A couple of hours
Good friends
Relaxed conversation.
My daughter made these mochi cakes for me at her nursery school. She is two years old and a wonderful cook. This explains the little girl’s hand sized cakes. I think she did a really good job and they tasted great. They may look a bit wonky to you, but they look perfect to me.
This terrible photo is supposed to show my favourite nori. It is the small strips of dried nori sheet that you use to wrap around a mouthful of rice, with your chopsticks. Generally this is served at breakfast, but I like it anytime. The only really unusual thing about this is that it came sealed […]
This is the fastest way that I know to cook and eat Omochi, but not one that I am particularly proud of. If you tell any of my Japanese friends that I cook and eat it this way, I will probably deny it. But here it is, in all its short cut glory.
Take a couple of rock […]
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