Cooking
While I was away I posted about the food in Japan over at Epicurious. I will have some more posts soon, but in the meantime feel free to check out bits and bites:
Eat Like Monk
About yodofu and shojin ryori food in Kyoto
Japanese Take on Chinese Food
About ramen
A Katsu Caper
About the best tonkatsu of my life
Passionate About Patisserie
About the amazing French pastries of Tokyo
Bite the Bullet
About obento lunch on the bullet train
The World's Most Expensive Fruit Basket
About the Japanese fruit you find in department stores
Kaiseki Food Takes Flight
About the best airplane food around
I may be home again, but Japan is still on my mind. Want to know what I am likely to blog about next? Rice omelets, Fall foods, ice cream city, gyoza stadium, supermarket sushi, what I brought back from Japan and the house that eel built.
- Koshi Rice: Favorite Things
I am hoarding rice. It's not what you think. I have fallen in love with the precious samples of Koshihikari rice I was sent by an Arkansas farmer. Mark Isbell grows a Japanese premium variety of short grain rice and Isbell Farms has been exporting...
- Japanese Hot Stuff
I came back from Japan with numerous delectable food purchases. The first thing I brought was "yuzukosho". I was served this green paste as a condiment with nabe, a dish where you cook what you like in a pot on the table. It's a combination of the...
- Ice Cream City
When I read about the food theme parks and museums of Japan I was determined to check them out on my next trip. In Tokyo I made a side trip out to a pretty goofy amusement park because it also was also the home of Gyoza Stadium and Ice Cream City. After...
- Japan Or Bust!
I'm heading off to Japan for a two week vacation. I will try to post while I'm gone, but no promises! In the meantime, feel free to check out my posts, there are many of them in the queue over at the Epicurious blog, Epi Log, and posts from...
- Favorite Things: Sembei
If you go to Tokyo, along the pathway to the temple in Akusaka there are vendors selling hundreds of kinds of "sembei" or Japanese rice crackers. Though the crackers originated in China, in 806 AD a Buddhist monk brought the recipe to Japan where the...
Cooking
Eating in Japan
While I was away I posted about the food in Japan over at Epicurious. I will have some more posts soon, but in the meantime feel free to check out bits and bites:
Eat Like Monk
About yodofu and shojin ryori food in Kyoto
Japanese Take on Chinese Food
About ramen
A Katsu Caper
About the best tonkatsu of my life
Passionate About Patisserie
About the amazing French pastries of Tokyo
Bite the Bullet
About obento lunch on the bullet train
The World's Most Expensive Fruit Basket
About the Japanese fruit you find in department stores
Kaiseki Food Takes Flight
About the best airplane food around
I may be home again, but Japan is still on my mind. Want to know what I am likely to blog about next? Rice omelets, Fall foods, ice cream city, gyoza stadium, supermarket sushi, what I brought back from Japan and the house that eel built.
- Koshi Rice: Favorite Things
I am hoarding rice. It's not what you think. I have fallen in love with the precious samples of Koshihikari rice I was sent by an Arkansas farmer. Mark Isbell grows a Japanese premium variety of short grain rice and Isbell Farms has been exporting...
- Japanese Hot Stuff
I came back from Japan with numerous delectable food purchases. The first thing I brought was "yuzukosho". I was served this green paste as a condiment with nabe, a dish where you cook what you like in a pot on the table. It's a combination of the...
- Ice Cream City
When I read about the food theme parks and museums of Japan I was determined to check them out on my next trip. In Tokyo I made a side trip out to a pretty goofy amusement park because it also was also the home of Gyoza Stadium and Ice Cream City. After...
- Japan Or Bust!
I'm heading off to Japan for a two week vacation. I will try to post while I'm gone, but no promises! In the meantime, feel free to check out my posts, there are many of them in the queue over at the Epicurious blog, Epi Log, and posts from...
- Favorite Things: Sembei
If you go to Tokyo, along the pathway to the temple in Akusaka there are vendors selling hundreds of kinds of "sembei" or Japanese rice crackers. Though the crackers originated in China, in 806 AD a Buddhist monk brought the recipe to Japan where the...