Inspired by Washoku All of my Valentine’s Days in the past have been so remarkable I forgot all about them. Tonight, as I sit here taking a break, I realized I have nothing planned tomorrow. Well I do but that’s work-related and who wants to hear about that? My jowa is traveling to…
Tag: japanese food
My bento love story
In the Philippines lunchboxes mostly contained only protein and carbohydrates. A high number of those lunchboxes are under this “baon” group: hotdog+rice, tapa (cured meat)+rice, eggs+rice, adobo+rice. Back when my brother was still in high school we always expect at least a 3 day tapa (cured meat) breakfast as it is also his…
Deep Fried Tofu
Deep Fried Tofu (soaked in stock) 2 blocks soft tofu 30 grams each Oil for deep frying For the stock: 1 ½ cups chicken stock 2 tbsp soy sauce 2 tbsp mirin Garnish: Toasted black seeds Chopped scallion 1. Drain the tofu by wrapping it in kitchen paper towels. Next, set it on…
Ceramics and Oyakodon
According to all of the Japanese food blogs (the ones written in English) Oyakdon literally means “parent-child bowl”. My first thought was that it referred to a mother’s dish shared with her child. Really, that’s what I thought, it made sense. According to Nami-san of Just One Cookbook however, it referred to parent=chicken…
Yakitori and Karaage
Yakitori (grilled chicken on a stick) 4-6 chicken breast small red onion, quartered tare (sauce): 100 ml mirin 100 ml soy sauce 2 TBSP sugar Cut the chicken pieces into bite size pieces. You may opt to use boneless chiicken breast or the darker boneless chicken thigh. Also, you may opt to remove…
Dango
A Limited Dango Experience I watch a lot of Anime ranging from the supernatural, adventure, historical or the slice of life kind. In most of these animation series a certain Japanese food, aside from onigiri and curry pan, is always present. Yes, the very obvious answer is DANGO. In fact in the anime…
