Honey Glazed Baby Carrots. Chinese Steamed Buns Recipe. Gyoza Recipe (Japanese Pan-Fried Dumplings) Thursday, October 22, 2009.
Homemade Gyoza Wrappers. “Luck is like having a rice dumpling fly into your mouth.” — Japanese Proverb I’m a huge lover of all types of dumplings, especially Japanese gyoza.
Living in Japan meant I was able to feed my inner gyoza monster on a regular basis. In our apartment complex in Tokyo we had a little mini supermarket in the courtyard. Squirrel and I would make daily pilgrimages there for things like milk, fresh veggies, or a piece of fish for dinner. Every week a stand was set up in the middle of the store where a vendor sold something special, like a variety of miso pickles or tea. Now that we’re in the States, far away from my gyoza man, my options are much more limited. Homemade Gyoza WrappersAdapted from The Japanese Kitchen, by Hiroko Shimbo Makes 40 wrappers Sift two cups of all-purpose flour into a large bowl and stir in a 1/4 teaspoon of salt. Add about 1/2 a cup of boiling water, little by little, using chopsticks to stir, until you can form the mixture into a ball. “Uchiko” Roasted Brussel Sprouts with Thai Sweet Chili Sauce - Pure Hunger. RECIPE. Apr 12, 2012 Our family recently traveled to Austin. The reasons for travel were mostly business and SXSW related tomfoolery.
It’s an amazing world. Really. Then on the third day the skies opened like a dark curtain on a stage and the sun made its grand entrance.We spent an unmentionable amount of time outdoors and consuming food, all with very close friends. Cut brussel sprouts in quarters and place in 13x9 glass baking dish. Really frugal ramen soup eggs. Eggs are great for bentos, and I have quite a few egg recipes here.
Hard boiled eggs on their own require some kind of seasoning, even if they look too cute to eat, so so far I’ve shown you how to make them tasty on their own, by turning them into tea eggs the lazy way, marinating them in miso, or the quickest of them all, my mother’s soy sauce eggs. Now, the recipe I’m showing you today is so frugal and low-brow that I am almost ashamed to put it up here. But hey, it’s good! And, so easy that even a college student with no cooking skills could make it. Of course, s/he would need to know how to boil an egg, but other than that… If you’ve been go a good ramen place, you’ve probably encountered those richly flavored soft boiled eggs that are often on top of your bowl of noodles. The best way to do that is to have real ramen soup. Barely a recipe at all: Instant ramen soup eggs EggsInstant ramen soup packets Boil some eggs to the soft boiled stage - 4 minutes will do.
Egg safety. Chicken Nanban 2 ways. Chicken nanban is fried chicken that’s been briefly marinated in a sweet-sour-salty and slightly spicy sauce or dressing called nanban sauce.
The recipe for basic, make-ahead-and-stock nanban sauce is over on Just Hungry. Japanese basics: Nanban sauce or vinegar (Nanbansu) I've been craving sour flavors recently for some reason (and no I'm not pregnant ^_^;), which means that I've been making nanban foods quite a bit.
The word _nanban_ uses the kanji characters for 'south' and 'savage', meaning savages who come from the south. It was originally used to refer to the Portuguese, the first non-Asian foreigners to land on Japanese soil. Later it came to refer all foreigners except for long-time neighbors China and Korea - or in other words, the Europeans. I guess to the Japanese of the 16th century or so, those white people looked like otherworldly savages! Spring maze gohan: Green pea rice, Asparagus rice. It’s finally spring, which means some of my favorite vegetables are showing up at the markets.
One way I like to enjoy them is to make maze gohan (混ぜご飯), which just means ‘mixed rice’, featuring the ingredient in question. Maze gohan (pronouned mazeh-go-han) differs from takikomi gohan (炊き込みご飯), such as this mushroom rice, where the ingredients are cooked with the rice. Maze gohan is more suited for delicate ingredients. It’s also a frugal way of stretching the use of some rather more expensive vegetables, such as really fresh peas. Guy Does Bento no. 5: Meatloaf and potatoes. Hearty meatball and vegetable soup (that's almost a stew) The Guy (also known as Max) and I have a shared resolution this year: We Must Lose Weight And Get Fitter Or Else.
He has high blood pressure, I have high or disturbingly fluctuating blood sugar. But we both have this basic problem, that we love to eat good food. And, especially during the day, we need our tummies comfortably filled or we get cranky. One solution to this problem: soup for lunch! Tofu and vegetable piccata. From the archives.
I got an email over the weekend from someone asking for vegetarian recipes. Well, there are a lot of vegetarian and vegan recipes here actually. Here is one I posted last year, a tasty ovo-vegetarian tofu-and-egg dish inspired by healthy Korean cooking, named after a classic italian dish. And of course, great in bentos! Bento filler: Cucumber and Nashi (Asian pear) marinated salad. Cucumbers are a perennial staple for me.
They are available at any time of the year, even in the depth of winter. Sure they are greenhouse grown, but they are for most of the year anyway.