Posts Tagged ‘garlic’
Ume-Chicken Bento
21Oct10
I packed lunches for my husband and kids five days a week for over twenty years. Then the kids grew up and left home, and my husband began to eat lunch at the company cafeteria to save me trouble. The part of me that had felt both burden and joy in preparing bento (Japanese-style packed [...]
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Tags: bento, chicken, chicken thighs, garlic, Japan, leftovers, lunch box, obento, shiitake, shiso leaves, umeboshi, walnuts
Ginger Root Pizza
28Sep09
Ginger Root (Zingiber officinale, or “Shoh-ga” in Japanese) appears in Japanese cuisine in many forms, but I’d always thought of it as an ingredient that worked its magic in the background, seldom– if ever– in the foreground of a dish, and certainly not as the star of the show. My awareness of ginger root began [...]
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Tags: garlic, ginger root, mozzarella, pesto, pork butt, shiitake
My Wagashi Chronicles- moon-viewing festival (more rabbit manju)The Tsuki-mi (moon viewing) celebration is fast approaching, and while debating whether to bother making a pile of the traditional tsuki-mi dango (moon viewing dumplings), I came across these adorable rabbit-shaped steamed manju being promoted as an alternative treat for the occasion. In the Japanese mind, rabbits are closely associated with the moon, as it […]
- moon-viewing festival (more rabbit manju)
- Dosankodebbie’s Etegami Notebook
- illustration friday (hurry)"Hurry," in Curling terminology, is a command shouted by the skip to tell the sweepers to sweep harder and faster-- in other words, it's used much the same way it's used in ordinary conversation. But Curling is cooler than ordinary conversation. That's my opinion, but you agree, don't you? Of course, you do.Just.in.Case.You […]
- illustration friday (hurry)
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