begging anyone who wants to learn how to cook to go look at just one cookbook dot com
seriously they have more recipes than i could ever count, they have clear instructions, step-by-step photos, and videos for their recipes (occasionally there are typos but just use logic. if it says to add the meat to the meat when we were just cutting vegetables, it means ad the vegetables to the meat). everything i've cooked from there is great and i'm at the point now i don't even need to always follow the recipes exactly bc now i'm familiar with how the cuisine works. so so yummy and it's totally friendly if you know nothing about japanese food, there are posts on her blog explaining what different ingredients and techniques are and everything. great place for both beginners to cooking and beginners to japanese food
2 boxes of bento were made for my father-in-low. He is my husband's father and lives alone. My husband sometimes goes to his father's house to see how he is. Then I wake up early to make bento for him. He loves it very much.
This bento is consisting of seasoned mix rice with Enoki mushrooms and butterburs and Sukiyaki-style beef and grilled green onions.
He loves beef very much and I have to think out some new beef recipes. It's hard, but fun.
I managed to perfectly recreate a simple but delightful radish-yuzu soup we were served at a tiny omakase sushi dinner in Toyama on our honeymoon and I am so goddamn proud of myself rn. Also full of soup 🍲
So I shall share the recipe with you so that more people can revel with me
Ingredients:
1 Japanese Diakon Radish ( chopped into 1/2 cubes)
4-5 cups water (enough to cover the radish)
1 Dashi sachet or 3tsp granules (the higher quality dashi you can spring for the better
1tbsp cornstarch
1 green onion sliced
Directions:
1 yuzo or lemon for zest
Chop daikon and green onion
Bring water to a boil, make dashi, taste and adjust concentration as needed. Add daikon and boil 15-20 min till tender. Thicken with corn starch, add green onions. Serve into bowls and sprinkle with a very small amount of yuzu zest.
This soup is so simple yet it is one of the most delightful dishes we had the whole trip
On January 7th, “Nana Kusa Gayu” (Seven Grass Porridge) is traditionally eaten in Japan, a rice porridge made with, as the name implies, seven different “grasses”, or herbs. The dish is meant to ward off sickness and accidents in the new year, and each of the seven herbs are included for specific reasons, which you can read about here. Mutsumi made us our bowls this morning using a freeze-dried mix as it’s hard to find these fresh herbs in NYC, and she served it with umeboshi plum, three types of konbu seaweed, pickled watermelon radish and fresh sansho pepper, with mitsuba leaves on top of the porridge. Here’s to a safe and healthy 2023!!
The power finally came back about an hour ago, it’s still so cold in the apartment 🥶 thankfully lots of blankets and Denny kept me warm last night but I slept terribly because I always sleep with the TV on and it was obviously pitch black and silent last night. I need to charge my phone and go grocery shopping, lots to cook this week. We’re trying to go back to cooking and not rely on takeout so much which is fine I like cooking I just don’t like trying to figure out what to make. I might go back to occasionally posting pics of dinners I make not sure yet, I’m a pretty good cook for being basically self taught, though I did have help when it came to Japanese cooking. For those who may not know I spent a year in Japan in college and my host father was a retired chef and taught me how to make Japanese and Japanese style Chinese food.
Thank you for always reading my posts. Today I have some news. I formed a unit with 2 persons. We are YouTube group making videos about cooking. To begin with, we made a video showing how to cook Japanese mix rice with baby scallops. I hope you try it out.
hope you enjoyed this simple Japanese inspired recipe. follow me for more, im posting more and more on tumblr but if you want to see my past videos check out my YouTubes: https://www.youtube.com/c/MakeSushiorg/videos