Tag: Japanese Food

Made chick peas into natto, and then made that into hummus. Natto Soak a bag of garbanzos/chick peas overnight. Boil the chick peas gently until fully cooked, around 90…

This is a super basic roux-based “curry”. The three ingredients are fat, flour, and curry powder. You can optionally add salt and soy sauce, but I never do. Over…

Someone on FB was asking, so I answered. Futomaki and inari (without complicated fillings), is the OG Japanese American sushi from the early 1900s to the 1980s. The other…

I pulled out the plums from the batch that I tried to “cure” with alcohol, called 3rd 2. It was soaked in weak sake that had been diluted a…

All over the web, there are people asking what to do with umeboshi, or the green fruit, prunus mume, aka, ume, aka Japanese plum, aka xi muoi, aka, maesil,…

I opened up the two pressing vessels and repacked them into jars. One was seven days old, and the other was six days old. They both had some moldy…

We had a big crop of ume this year – only around 10-15 pounds, but that’s good to me. Here are the results so far. My mom and I…

Takana Recipe If you have a pickle press, it’s easy to make takana with mustard greens (they have them at the Chinese store if you don’t have a Japanese…