Cheers to good health. 12 months old, umeshu. I've never been huge on umeshu because I think of it as syrupy, sweet and sometimes with an “artificial” taste. It is also sweeter than I would have liked my own drinks. My husband on the other end, loves umeshu. For that reason, we stock Choya at… Continue reading Making Honkaku Umeshu
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Tori-tsukune Nabe (Hotpot with chicken meatballs)
This dish has a great story for me. During my first solo trip to Tokyo, I walked into an underground restaurant near closing time. Not wanting to impose on them, I told them omakase. The owner and chef then cooked me 2 small dishes with this dish as the main one. He cooked the dish… Continue reading Tori-tsukune Nabe (Hotpot with chicken meatballs)
Paper Wrapped Chicken (Chee Pow Kai)
Chee Pow Kai Recipe Chicken Marinate:2 chicken thighs (deboned and cut into 4 pieces each)2 TBSP oyster sauce2 cloves of finely chopped garlic3 TBSP Hua Diao Jiu1 TBSP Ginger Juice1 tsp of light soy sauce1 TBSP sesame oilGood sprinkling of white powder pepper *Marinate Chicken in the above for at least 2 hours. Chicken Parcels:8… Continue reading Paper Wrapped Chicken (Chee Pow Kai)
Food Snobbery Causes Blindness.
Dropping restaurant names during a conversation, posting images of that meal at a well sought after restaurant or publishing your thoughts about that aka uni (red sea urchin) from Kyushu that you've tasted, yet making all that sound common and frivolous seems normal. After all it is the "enviable life" that everyone wants to portray on social media right?
Old Beans, Bad Beans?
What do you do with your old coffee beans? Do you know if they are still good?
The Journey
Learning Food Styling and Photography.
Bringing produce Home: Tokyo Feb ’17
Some recipes based on the produce that I brought home, and how they inspired me to cook a meal.
Will Travel for Food.
Love food and travel inspires me. How do I take some of this inspirations home and replicate?
Test Kitchen: Lemon and Poppy Seed Cake.
Formulating a recipe for a lemon and poppy seed cake.
From Garden to Table.
Understanding food on a primal level.
Dreaming in Flavours 