Entries by Akiko

Private Class for Vegetarian Dishes with Autumn harvests

The main dish was chosen as Vegetarian Ramen for a guest lady from Israel who has been vegetarian for many years. Side dishes include cold fresh cabbage with Konbu, Gyoza dumplings with lotus root, Kaki (persimmon) & greens dressed with creamy Tofu sauce, etc. My guest was very interested in Japanese Dashi soup stock with […]

Chicken Karaage & Chicken Lotus Meat Balls class

The main dish request was Chicken Karaage, one of our best sellers & very popular home-cooked food all over Japan! We also cooked chicken meatballs with our autumn/winter vegetable, lotus root, seasoned with Miso. When I cook these chicken menus for my family, I usually pile them up on a simple big plate and tell […]

Seafood lovers from Down Under

The main dish request was Chicken Karaage, one of our best sellers & very popular home cooked food all over Japan! We also cooked chicken meat balls with our autumn/winter vegetable, lotus root, seasoned with Miso. When I cook these chicken menus for my family, I usually pile them up on a simple big plate […]

Gyoza party with happy American foodie girls!

The requested main dish was Gyoza dumplings. I suggested to my guests if they don’t mind putting shrimp as well as pork in the fillings, which they also liked very much and it turned out as a great success! One of my guests lived in Japan when she was a little girl. She said her […]

Vegetarian & Chicken Ramen for a family reunion

It was a request from a daughter who is now working in Germany to cook vegetarian Ramen & Gyoza, with her loving parents visiting from Australia. My pleasure to host a family reunion in Tokyo! For Mum and Dad, we cooked some simmered chicken for Ramen and included pork in the Gyoza filling. For vegetarian […]

Lots of seafood for a US athlete couple

This was a 2 main dish course request from an American couple. We cooked Salmon Nanbanzuke marinade and Okonomiyaki pancake as our main dishes, plus a few side dishes with vegetables and seasonal fruits. My guest couple was both very fit as regular climbers and bouldering experts, so salmon was a good choice for their […]

Honeymooners from Tel Aviv cooking Japanese comfort food

Today’s guests are happy sweet honeymooners from the IT capital, Tel Aviv, Israel. We cooked Ramen with pork soup stock. I also adventured to use simmered Konbu kelp in cabbage salad, which is our family’s favorite quick dish. Here we use Konbu as herbs and it goes nicely with sesame oil. Please try if you […]

Pork ramen class with guests from Hamburg & Pescara

My guests for this pork ramen & gyoza class were couples from Pescara,  Italy, and Hamburg, Germany. It was a terrible morning as the huge typhoon was passing Japan the night before and our notorious rush-hour trains were packed and crowded as ever!  Still, they all managed to arrive at my place & I was […]