Today we are making tofu kabayaki steaks! This is a little bit similar to what I did previously with my tofu kabayaki donburi. In that recipe, you’ll see how I made kabayaki unagi, or fake unagi with tofu and yamaimo. We’re going to be doing a little bit of a different take on that with […]
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This is just a preview of what plant-based Japanese food can look like. These are some of the dishes that we made last year in the Japanese cooking club. So again, as I said, these are going to be dishes that mostly call for plant foods and very minimal use of processed foods and no
Today, we are doing making yaki onigiri, which is literally a grilled or toasted rice ball. Tips for making a delicious yaki onigiri I have about two cups’ worth of Japanese white rice, and a little bit of sesame oil, which we’re gonna be using for some additional flavor, a tablespoon of mirin, and three
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Are you in the market for a new pasta extruder? Perhaps you want to make homemade pasta – fresh pasta at home. Well today, I’m gonna be telling you all about my experiences using the KitchenAid Pasta Extruder set and some of the pros and cons as well as some of my tips for how
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curious what fermented soy sauce with rice can do for you? depending on what you’re cooking, it might just revive or take your relationship with Japanese soy sauce to the next level, would you like a taste? What is shoyu koji 醬油麹 ? Shoyu (soy sauce) koji is a sauce made with shoyu, which is
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Chronic disease is insidious I don’t know if you guys have ever heard that term before. Insidious means that it happens over a very long period of time. You don’t necessarily feel it as if you had an acute injury like if you cut yourself with a knife, that’s not really insidious. That’s more of
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Today, we are making a very simple dinner using sashimi! I have some tuna, and we’re going to be making makizushi, tekkamaki, which is one of my favorites (the tuna roll). We’ll also do kappamaki and some avocado. What is makizushi? Makizushi is a type of sushi that is rolled using nori seaweed sheets and
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This segment is going to be about the myths and misconceptions surrounding plant-based foods. I have nine of them for you. There’s a lot more than these nine, but I think these nine are very important and need to be addressed. People think automatically that when they hear plant-based food, that it’s healthy. “Oh, plant-based?
Who doesn’t love dessert or any sweet treat for snacks? We usually buy our favorite desserts in store but there is nothing compared to homemade sweet treats that are not just healthy (fewer preservatives), they are also easy and fun to do. Today, I will share three of my favorite kitchen items that make dessert-making
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You must have noticed some of my favorite kitchen tools that make cooking and food preparation easier and faster like the Tofu Ninja Tofu Press and KitchenAid Cordless Hand Blender you saw in my previous blogs and videos. Here are other kitchen essentials that will help you make your Japanese dishes easier. 1. Cook you
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