Asian Cabbage Salad
Summertime often calls for large gatherings with friends. This simple slightly sweet salad includes sesame seeds and almonds giving it a savory nutty flavor. It’s is a good dish to bring to any...
View ArticleJapanese Style Sandwiches
Japanese sandwiches are typically made with thinly sliced white bread. Japanese style white bread is a little different from American white bread. With a hint of butter and a slight sweetness,...
View ArticleSimple Tip to Identify Organic and GMO Produce in U.S.
Do you know if your food is organic? Do you know if it is genetically modified (GMO)? As a consumer, is there an easy way to find this information? The other day, thanks to a young nutritionist...
View Article21 Acres Sustainable Agriculture- Is this the Feng Shui of Farms?
If feng shui is about “living in harmony with nature” for a building structure, then permaculture is about “living in harmony with the land.“ For those that haven’t heard of permaculture, you aren’t...
View ArticleJapanese New Years Traditions
Now that Christmas has come and gone, in a Japanese household, we have to start thinking of the biggest holiday of the year, New Years or Oshogatsu. January 1st, is called Gan jitsu. In the olden...
View ArticleJapanese Cuisine, Washoku, Awarded UNESCO Cultural Heritage Status
In early December, 2013, Japanese Cuisine, known as “washoku” in Japanese, was awarded UNESCO’s intangible cultural assets status. The only other cuisine to receive this honor is French cuisine in...
View ArticleCooking Club and Sharing Recipes – Chinese Fragrant Eggplant
Back in 2002, we moved to our home, located in a very small cul de sac in the suburbs. The neighborhood included a variety of ethnicities and professions, which was a good fit for our family. After...
View ArticleChinese Style Pork Chops
I’ll be doing a few more recipes from Winnie here. I like recipes that I can use for everyday meals. These do the job as they are all delicious, easy and definitely keepers. Today’s recipe is...
View ArticleChayote – Buddha’s Palms/Hands – Salad
I first came across chayote in Costa Rica, as it’s commonly sold on the street. It tastes like a mild squash. The outside green skin is thin and can be peeled using a peeler. The inner white flesh...
View ArticleRice with Chinese Sausage and Bok Choy
Growing up in Hawaii, we used to eat Chinese sausage, or lap cheong, just thinly sliced and fried with plain white rice. I liked that sweet taste. It brings back memories of our childhood. Lap...
View ArticleShinya’s Japanese Super Refrigerator – KuraBan
I don’t know why but us Japanese love new electronic technology. Whenever a new product is introduced to the market, it seems like everyone knows about it or already has one. It’s a type of herd...
View ArticleMatcha Butter Cookies
Matcha is a powdered Japanese green tea made from very young leaves. This gives it a very vivid green color and clean taste. When combined with butter, matcha makes a savory buttery cookie with a...
View ArticleMatcha Rice Cake with Azuki Beans
Last week I posted matcha cookies, today is a rice cake. Matcha is a very fine green tea powder that is used for Japanese tea ceremony. With a very distinctive fresh clean taste, today matcha is...
View ArticleTofu Matcha Smoothie
As we featured a couple matcha recipes, here is one more way that you can use your matcha: Tofu Matcha Smoothie. Since matcha is fresh steamed and dried green tea leaves it has a very high content of...
View ArticlePineapple Fried Rice
Our little neighborhood cooking club of three, Winnie from China, Susanne from Germany and me, got together over the weekend. Now that two of us have moved away from the neighborhood, it’s now an...
View ArticleQuick and Healthy Chinese Broccoli – Gai-Lan
It’s become more and more evident that we need to increase our green veggie intake to our diet for better health. I love Winnie’s quick recipe for gai-lan, Chinese broccoli, also known as kai-lan,...
View Article9 Reasons to Drink Matcha Green Tea to Kick Start Your Healthy Lifestyle
Green tea is regarded by many nutrition experts as one of the items on any top 10 list of super foods in terms of antioxidant quantity, health benefits or weight loss. In particular is the green tea...
View ArticleSimple Tip to Identify Organic and GMO Produce in U.S.
Do you know if your food is organic? Do you know if it is genetically modified (GMO)? As a consumer, is there an easy way to find this information? The other day, thanks to a young nutritionist...
View Article21 Acres Sustainable Agriculture- Is this the Feng Shui of Farms?
If feng shui is about “living in harmony with nature” for a building structure, then permaculture is about “living in harmony with the land.“ For those that haven’t heard of permaculture, you aren’t...
View ArticleJapanese New Years Traditions
Now that Christmas has come and gone, in a Japanese household, we have to start thinking of the biggest holiday of the year, New Years or Oshogatsu. January 1st, is called Gan jitsu. In the olden...
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