My friend visited Kyoto and bring a souvenir, Japanese traditional pastry for me. It is called “Wagashi” in Japanese. It consists of several kind of “Anko (child bean paste).” Left one, white and pink anko are wrapping red bean pate. Right one, a kind of rice cake (mochi) which is very tender is wrapping also […]
Sea bream or snapper is called “Tai” in Japanese. As I mentioned in earlier article, sea bream is often served at the celebration day. Taimeshi is a typical menu for celebration. It looks luxury and it is luxury in fact because it cooks a whole sea bream. It is a kind of “Takikomi-gohan” which is […]
Nikujaga is a very popular home cooking food. One interesting thing is which meat (beef or pork) will be cooked depends on region. Around Tokyo area, people are cooking pork. But around Osaka area, people are cooking beef. I grew up in Kobe, around Osaka area, so I am cooking it with beef. First time […]
Japanese omelet is generally called as “Tamago yaki.” “Tamago” means egg and “yaki” means bake. The feature is its cooking method which roll thin baked egg sheet over and over. Also we are using rectangle fry pan which is specialized for tamago yaki. So its shape becomes rectangle. Because dashimaki is a kind of tamago […]
Recently, I cooked boiled something…. Now it is also simmered food, chicken wing. However chicken is now popular and not expensive food, before end of World War 2, it was very expensive. The history of chicken in Japan has very long. People are eating chicken at least since 7th century. But Japanese government sometimes prohibited […]
Don’t you have something warm food for dinner at cold day? Yudofu is one of my favorite dinner menu in cold winter. It is a kind of “nabe” (hot pot) foods. I love nabe foods because we can enjoy various types. In Japan, each region has each style nabe food. Ingredients are various such like […]
I don’t know who developed this recipe. So it may not be a Japanese food. But when I was a child, my mother sometimes cooked. Recently, I found same recipes on a Japanese recipe site. So it seems to be one of popular foods in Japan. I have heard the reason why boiling with black […]
Flounder is very popular fish in Japan. Righteye flounder is called “Karei,” and lefteye flounder is called “Hirame.” Hirame is expensive and often served as Sushi or Sashimi. Above is Karei. In winter, they are in spawning season so we can eat with eggs of Karei. “Nitsuke” means foods which are boiled. In Japan, we […]
