Single Dish Meals

Simple Crepes

April 15, 2011
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Today’s recipe is crepes. I’m sure everyone LOOOVES crepes. These days I’m always staying up late to work on my blog and so has my new foodie friend, Suzana from Firefly Blog. She has been “torturing” me by posting delicious meals at night, more precisely she posts them past midnight when I’m really really hungry! One of her recent recipes was Crepes with Peanut Butter and Banana. Crepes are my favorite and I had to try!

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Japanese Beef Curry ビーフカレー

April 15, 2011
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Curry rice is extremely popular in Japan. In fact according to the Japanese food giant House-Foods, Curry can be considered a Japanese national dish similar to ramen. You will be able to find curry being offered in most Japanese diner menu next to oyakodon, ramen, and other traditional Japanese food. This following curry recipe requires Japanese curry roux. All the curry spices are in a form of solid roux resembling a block of baking chocolate. Japanese curry spice is different from Thai or Indian curry, so I’d recommend you to buy the roux from Japanese supermarket or an Asian food isle in your local grocery store (they usually have it). I always add other ingredients so my curry doesn’t taste “out of box”. I hope you like Japanese curry!

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Soboro Don (Ground Chicken Bowl) 三色そぼろ丼

April 11, 2011
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Ground chicken sauteed with soy sauce, mirin, sake, complemented with eggs and green peas over rice. Classic Yakitori restaurant dish.

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Yakisoba

April 6, 2011
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When I was growing up, yakisoba was lunch menu on weekends and my family used to gather around the Japanese hot plate (indoor griddle) and cook the noodles together. It was my dad’s favorite and we didn’t mind this repetition either. When I got married, I unconsciously followed the same routine, cooking yakisoba on weekends until my husband told me “Yakisoba again?”. However, now the kids love eating yakisoba noodles so this lunch menu started to appear more frequently. Yes, yakisoba is back!

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Eggplant & Unagi Donburi

April 5, 2011
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If you are tired of the regular Unadon (Unagi Donburi), this might give you an interesting twist to the original version. I used Shiso leaves which provide a great accent to the combination of Unagi and eggplant and plays an important role. I hope you will enjoy this quick yummy dinner.

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Potato-Leek Gratin

April 1, 2011
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I LOVE gratin dish. It’s one of my favorites since childhood. As I was wondering what to do with the leftover leek from last week, my fellow blogger Shannon from Living with Umami told me she was going to cook Potato-Leek Gratin. Shannon made the gratin and shared the recipe on her blog. On the same night I also cooked her yummy gratin! It was so good! If you enjoy the recipe please let Shannon know as well.

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Crispy Tonkatsu Donburi

March 21, 2011
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Japanese cuisines are usually pretty healthy, however we do have quite a bit of deep fried food. There are restaurants that specialize in tempura, kushiage (deep fried skewers), and tonkatsu (deep fried pork cutlets). Today I’ll share my version of tonkatsu.

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Sukiyaki

March 14, 2011
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My mom is from Kansai area so even though I grew up in Kanto, we typically eat Sukiyaki Kansai style at home. Kansai style sukiyaki cooks the beef first then the rest of the ingredients as well as the broth is added. By cooking the beef on the cast iron pot, it caramelizes the meat and provides an extra dimension to the taste. Don’t buy the ready made Sukiyaki sauce from supermarket since they tend to be too salty. Try making your own sukiyaki broth today.

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Easy Paella

March 11, 2011
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Paella is one of my favorite dish when I go to Spanish tapas restaurants. There are many different varieties of paella and ways to prepare them. My recipe is probably not the most authentic but if you are craving for paella it’s simple enough to make it yourself.

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Creamy Mushroom & Bacon Spaghetti

March 9, 2011
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Japanese loves Italian food and you can find Italian restaurants everywhere all over Japan. Besides following the traditional recipes, sometimes Japanese add their own ingredients into traditional recipes to give the dish a Japanese twist. Try the creamy spaghetti recipe with soy sauce as the secret ingredient. Let me know what you think, to soy sauce or not to soy sauce.

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Okonomiyaki

March 2, 2011
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Okonomiyaki (aka Japanese pizza) is a Japanese pancake dish including a variety of ingredients and usually associated with Osaka and Hiroshima areas (West) of Japan. Okonomi means “what you like” and Yaki means “grilled.” Regardless of the region and style, the main ingredients is always cabbage. This particular recipe is from my friend who’s originally from Hiroshima.

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Inari Sushi いなり寿司

February 28, 2011
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Inari sushi, vegetarian sushi with sushi rice wrapped in nori seaweed and shiso leaf. Garnish with ikura.

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Meat Doria

February 25, 2011
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There is something irresistible about the smell of burnt cheese from the oven. One of my favorite open baked cheese dish is Meat Doria. What is Doria? In Japan we call rice gratins “Doria.” Doria consists of sauteed ingredients in either white sauce or tomato sauce poured over cooked rice and then baked in oven or oven toaster.

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White Stew

February 16, 2011
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Stew/Curry type of rice dish are very popular in Japan. These dish are usually very easy to prepare and can serve a large party of people. White stew makes great comfort food and you can always freeze the leftover for another rainy day. If you’ve tried white stew before without tuna, try it again with tuna next time.

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