Tag: mushrooms

September 13, 2019

GRILLED EGGPLANT SANDWICHES WITH GROUND MEAT RECIPE

“Sandwiches” in today’s recipe does’t mean the one using bread, but it uses eggplants instead. The style is putting seasoned ground meat between two slices of eggplant. Then they are coated with salty-sweet sauce after being grilled. Using lotus root…

Appetizer

September 5, 2019

TAKIKOMI-GOHAN (JAPANESE MIXED RICE) WITH MISO SALMON RECIPE

Rice seasoned and cooked with various ingredients is called “takikomi-gohan” in Japanese. Although simple white rice is more popular dish for Japanese meal, seasoned rice is sometimes on the table too. For “takikomi-gohan”, you can actually put any ingredients and…

Side Dish

April 10, 2019

Nameko Mushrooms & Eggplant Miso Soup Recipe

Did you enjoy my tasting project for five different kinds of miso paste…? For me, to be honest it was a great opportunity (first time) to compare several types of miso. Since I got unique miso paste for this project,…

Miso Soup

March 12, 2019

SOY MILK & SALMON miso soup recipe

Do you like soy milk?Some people may choose soy milk instead of normal milk for their health…Although the idea of which one is better or not depends on people, sometimes it’s nice to have soy milk taste in my diet….

Miso Soup

February 20, 2019

Hanpen Miso Soup Recipe

Have you tried HANPEN: a cake of ground fish combined with starch and steamed ?You can see fluffy HANPEN in Oden (traditional Japanese stew) at Japanese convenience store beside cashier. That’s one of the best way to eat HANPEN as…

Miso Soup

February 18, 2019

GANMODOKI miso soup recipe

Have you ever heard of “GANMODOKI” ?GANMODOKI is deep-fried tofu mixed with thinly sliced vegetables. Tofu is mashed well, so GANMODOKI is very fluffy and nice. It is often used in Oden (fishcake and vegetable stew) and simmered dishes. Although…

Miso Soup

February 5, 2019

HOTO: flat noodles miso soup recipe

HOTO is local cuisine that is basically eaten in Yamanashi prefecture, Japan. The flat noodles made from wheat flour is called HOTO and it’s simmered with seasonal vegetables, mushrooms, and meat.The main characters are very flat noodles and often cooked…

Miso Soup

January 28, 2019

MAITAKE MUSHROOM miso soup recipe

Eating raw mushrooms is the most surprising thing at the table when I was staying with my host family in the U.S. I found mushrooms can be eaten raw at that time because we never eat like that in Japan….

Miso Soup

January 21, 2019

What Is Imoni? and Imoni Recipe

Imoni is a famous traditional soup dish made with taro, meat, mushrooms, and various kind of vegetables. It’s mainly eaten in the North-Eastern Parts of Japan (Tohoku region). There is autumn festival called imoni-kai (It’s like imoni party) in this…

Miso Soup

January 17, 2019

Best Nameko Miso Soup Recipe

I wonder why we eat various kind of sticky or stringy food in Japan. The foods I am talking about are, for example, natto, Chinese yam, okra, nameko mushrooms and so on. Common thing among those foods are containing ingredients…

Miso Soup