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December okayu

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Hop ! We’ve stepped into December, the darkest month. But we often have bright days in Osaka… in the cold. Okayu, congee, rice porridge is a good way to fight the cold. With sweet potato, yellow like the leaves of icho[...]

Romanesco Ramen

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Yes ramen can be healthy, and the romanesco cauliflower is one of the most superb vegetable… Ramen, Chinese style noodles are often served in a rich broth of pork bones, topped with grilled pork. They are not[...]

Only 5 minutes?

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You really have only 5 minutes to prepare a lunch ? I run to grasp some … er… thing, not perfectly well identified at the kombini (convenience store) or I re-heat some frozen … stuff ? No, I don’t have to do that. We[...]

hotate no tsukuri

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Zen simplicity for fresh Hokkaido scallops. Tsukuri , means “made”, made as sashimi … Opened by the fishmonger. I hope they don’t suffer too much. Well, sorry I eat you little shells. You eat a lot[...]

Let?s make tempura

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Making the assorted tempura you see in this previous post. Veggies. Sweet potato and kabocha pumpkin sliced finely. Otherwise, pre-cooking would be required, Onion, kakinoki-take (persimon tree mushrooms) and shishito cook quickly.[...]

Crosses en goma-ae

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A few kogomi as the Japanese call them. Do you say fern sprouts or fiddlehead greens , têtes de violon, crosses de fougère ? I know they are not so common over the world, but a few people eat them in Canada and in France, at least. In[...]

To open up appetite

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It’s better to restart simply with a shellfish okayu (rice porridge). I simply opened the hamaguri clam in sake, with celery. On a bed of brown rice porridge fresh from the rice-cooker. I had 2 branches of dill[...]

Operation kare raisu

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The game was to cook a honest kare raisu (Japanese curry-rice ). The conclusion is that doesn’t take you more time that using a premix. The average Japanese housewife buys some kare-ru (curry roux) like that : It melts[...]

The creamy miso shell

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I know you had not enough recipes for scallops, so I will give one everyday, like for soup. And this blog will become “soup and scallops in Osaka”. It could be… Actually, I got a few -a bargain- and I ate them the same[...]

Osechi 1 : kazu no ko

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Maybe you have already seen that on your sushi. “Produce of Alaska” is written on the label. Japan has some, but not enough for everybody in this season, and I don’t think Americans would eat them anyway. They[...]