My guest was a family from California, USA, who has selected Tempura as their main dish at our home-cooking class. Side dishes were spinach with sesame sauce, aubergine Miso sauce with kumquat peels on top, Miso soup of Enoki mushrooms and Mitsuba. Lots of vegetables, lots of preparations! And yes, we made a beautiful lunch […]
My guests were a US Airforce officer based in the suburb of Tokyo and his wife from Hong Kong, both big fans of Japanese Ramen, and their sister visiting from Seattle USA. The couple was about to leave Japan and move on to one of their European bases soon. That is why they were interested […]
Onoin, garlic, ginger, carrot & whole spices, some of the ingredients for Curry roux. Ramen and Curry have a lot of things in common. Both are not traditional Japanese cuisine and originated from overseas, China and India respectively. Both introduced to our country fairly recently but now the most popular menu among Japanese people of […]
My guests at this class were university students from Philadelphia, USA. They were travelling with some other friends but decided to go on different itinerary this morning to learn how to make Ramen, wow! One is studying pottery, while the other in science field but they are long-time good buddies & I am happy to […]
My favorite menu, seafood Nanban style for the main dish! Since my guest family from England, the UK & a couple from Germany were all willing to try some seafood dish cooking experience, I have prepared a mix of ingredients including prawns, salmon, swordfish, and a side dish using salt-and-chili flavored cod roes (Mentaiko). If […]
This lovely couple from Florida, USA was another big fan of Naruto & Ramen! I always ask my guests to taste a few kinds of Miso in my stock. The differences come from the percentage of rice & soybeans, amount of salt, period of fermentation, as well as special Koji, the fungus each Miso maker […]
My guest couple was from Germany and Holland, beautiful performing artists and another people attracted by our comfort food, Ramen & Gyoza. Both of them were very knowledgeable about Japanese cuisine, enjoying seeing a whole piece of smoked Bonito and dried Kombu seaweed etc. They are very important ingredients for our cooking. Hot sizzling Gyoza […]
Our all-time favorite, Chicken Karaage is a main dish today! Served with “black” rice, Miso soup with potato, Mitsba herb, etc. & vegetable side dishes with sweet and savory sauces. My guest was a couple from the US. Both of them are great cooks & the husband turned out to be a specialist in pickled […]
Gyoza class with two pairs of couples, from the US and UK. While making Gyoza filling and wrapping them, we were chatting about all sorts of things about food and not about food, then surprisingly, 3/4 of my guests were in the medical field! It was interesting to find out about differences in the education […]
Today’s guest couple was from Paris, France, a very talented florist & a doctor on their honeymoon. The cooking class was a gift from their brothers and sisters, such an honor and privilege for us to be chosen for such a special occasion! They were very familiar with our Japanese culture, including our history, pop […]
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