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Review: Washoku: Recipes from a Japanese Home Kitchen

January 10, 2010 by Ellen · Leave a Comment 

Filled with easy to follow recipes and an explanation of Japanese home cooking principles, this book is quite worthwhile. Washoku: Recipes from the Japanese Home Kitchen has been a great introduction to Japanese home cooking for me.  The recipes I’ve tried have been excellent. It did require some exploring in a local Asian grocery store [...]

Sushi Dinner at Home

January 9, 2010 by Ellen · 1 Comment 

My daughter made sushi rolls for our dinner tonight. I made the rice but she did everything after that. She made three kinds of rolled sushi for us: Smoked salmon, cream cheese and cucumber (Brooklyn Roll) (Fake) crab, avocado and cucumber (California Roll) Salmon, cucumber and something (avocado? can’t remember) She also made a few [...]

Japanese Pickled Cabbage, Carrots and Cucumber

January 8, 2010 by Ellen · 2 Comments 

I love the various little pickled vegetables that come with a Japanese Bento box. I also love having little side dishes and some variety at the table.  I actually went and bought a Tsukemono Japanese Pickle Press 2.2 L. I also bought Easy Japanese Pickling in Five Minutes to One Day: 101 Full-Color Recipes for [...]

Kabocha Squash Simmered in Soy Sauce with Red Beans

December 29, 2009 by Ellen · 1 Comment 

I really liked this kabocha squash but am not crazy about the red bean sauce I served it with. I picked up a kabocha squash, which I’ve never cooked before, and a can of sweet red beans at the local Asian grocery store today. The recipe I found in Washoku: Recipes from the Japanese Home [...]

Tori Soboru: Ginger Spiced Chicken

December 13, 2009 by Ellen · 1 Comment 

I promised my daughter I’d only do one new Asian dish this week and since I have more time to explore new things on weekends, tonight was it! I made this gingery spiced chicken from Washoku: Recipes from the Japanese Home Kitchen. Of course, she LOVED it! I made this then served it over rice [...]

Quick Pickled Radishes

December 4, 2009 by Ellen · 1 Comment 

I almost forgot about these fantastic pickled radishes I made the other night. They didn’t take more than 1/2 an hour to pickle, since I sliced the radishes in 1/4″ slices. I love pickled things and these were a nice addition to my Japanese dinner the other night. By this afternoon’s lunch, they were all [...]

Japanese Dinner Menu

December 3, 2009 by Ellen · Leave a Comment 

I made another Japanese themed dinner last night. I’d swung by the local Ranch 99 for some produce. As we were cruising the aisles a bit, my daughter spotted some chicken in the freezer section. It was thinly sliced, seasoned, and threaded on wooden skewers already. So we picked up that, some fried tofu (arsu [...]

Blanched Spinach Steeped in Broth – Horenso No Ohitashi

December 3, 2009 by Ellen · 1 Comment 

I checked Washoku: Recipes from the Japanese Home Kitchen out of our local library. I’m pretty sure I’m going to buy it now, but it’s sure nice to try it out for a few weeks first! I’ve made several dishes from it, in my new Japanese cooking focus. I’ve also learned a lot. I do [...]

Tokyo Fried Chicken

November 20, 2009 by Ellen · Leave a Comment 

These were really good! I wish I had the shiso leaves to garnish, as suggested in Japanese Women Don’t Get Old or Fat: Secrets of My Mother’s Tokyo Kitchen, where I got this recipe. The chicken is briefly marinated , then drained, tossed with cornstarch (or potato starch), then fried. She calls for 4 chicken [...]

Eggplant and Green Pepper in Miso

November 20, 2009 by Ellen · Leave a Comment 

This is from Japanese Women Don’t Get Old or Fat: Secrets of My Mother’s Tokyo Kitchen which I’ve been enjoying.  I just used one small Japanese eggplant and half a green pepper because I was only feeding two people, and I cut back a bit on the sauce ingredients as well. It came out quite [...]

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