Freezing Yakionigiri
I think one of the first frozen foods I had in Japan was frozen onigiri. The hubby bought them one evening and I was skeptical. I don’t really like frozen food and these seemed to simple to be good. I loved them. Haven’t bought them since but they did inspire me to explore the world … Read more
How to find a turkey in Japan
For the first couple of Thanksgivings and Christmases it didn’t even occur to me to miss turkey. All of a sudden, about a week before my third Christmas here, I felt I had to roast a turkey. Since rarely went out of my way to get food that wasn’t sold in the local supermarket, I … Read more
Baked Stuffed Red Peppers
I have been working on the rice cooker cookbook nonstop for the last little while and have scarcely had time to cook non-rice cooker meals. This may be the first time I have used my oven in about a month. I baked these in the pre-lunch heat since it really doesn’t make a difference when your … Read more
Rice Cooker Love
As you can imagine, now that I’m working on a rice cooker cookbook, I have been making a lot of food in the rice cooker. I love how easy it is. With summer in full force, I don’t seem to have the usual cooking energy and five minutes of active prep works for me. I’ve … Read more
Baked Sea Bream
I don’t cook fish often. Not because I dislike it but because when we were young my sister and I refused to eat fish (aside from freshly caught rainbow trout) so it is not part of my food past. Since coming to Japan I have started cooking fish but usually in Japanese food. I probably … Read more
Freezing Pizza Dough
I make pizza on Friday nights but I only make dough every couple of weeks. Dough takes time even though only about ten minutes of that is active. One doesn’t always have the ninety minutes to two hours to make homemade pizza and that shouldn’t stop you from having it. Luckily, pizza dough freezes really … Read more
Sausage and Cabbage Rice Cooker Lentils
seI’ve got another rice cooker lentil recipe for you. My last recipes, Thymely Rice Cooker Lentils and Spicy Rice Cooker Lentils, have become quite popular and I think more needs to follow. The instructions are very complex so follow them carefully. Sausage and Cabbage Rice Cooker Lentils 2/3 cup brown lentils 1 chicken bullion cube 1 cup purple … Read more
Frypan Curry Part Deux
I needed something fast last night so I went for some frying pan curry. It was almost the same as last time except I added maitake mushrooms tofu as well as spinach.
Quick Japanese Curry
I saw this on a Japanese cooking tv show. I don’t remember which channel or which show. The show featured three popular food bloggers but I haven’t been able to recognize who it is by looking at food blogs. I searched the internet (in Japanese) and this is a fairly common thing to do. The … Read more
My First Homemade Ochazuke
I have discovered that ochazuke is hard to photograph. This is the best I could do with my old iPhone 3G. Anyway, this was my first time both making and eating ochazuke. I have always avoided it because I am not big on rice being the main part of my meal. I woke up with … Read more
