If you’re wondering why Japanese food is so full of flavor and umami, the reason why is dashi! Dashi is a key component to much of Japanese cuisine. Instead of water as a component to cooking, dashi adds flavor and complexity. What is dashi? Dashi is a Japanese soup stock that is the base of
Seitan is a super versatile vegan protein made from vital wheat gluten. It’s what’s used to make vegan chicken, aka fake chicken, and doesn’t that lead image look just like chicken? If you’re vegan, or maybe even if you’re not but you’ve been peeping on viral cooking Tiktoks, I’m sure you’ve heard of seitan. These
A couple of years ago –while Mike and I were living in Tokyo– around the end of January, we started noticing an influx of giant sushi rolls being advertised. It seemed like everywhere we went there were photo ads for uncut sushi rolls. Soon after the ads, we started seeing the actual rolls in convenience
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Saucy, noodle-y, and full of umami, yakisoba is a hearty, all-in-one dish that is absolutely delicious. In Japan, when you go to a festival, whether it’s in the spring, summer, fall, or winter, there will inevitably be a yakisoba stand. Neat little piles of yakisoba will be waiting on a giant grill top to be
I’ve eaten sunomono every night for the last week. It’s hot out there. So hot maybe I don’t feel like eating? Who am I kidding, I always feel like eating. Especially cucumbers in the summertime. Heck, I love cucumbers anytime. I would even go so far as to say that cucumbers are my favorite vegetable.
If you’ve ever had carbonara in a really good Italian restaurant and bitten into a crispy, juicy, umami filled nugget of pork, you’ve tasted guanciale. It’s sweet and crisp, full of umami and porky-ness. What is guanciale? Guanciale is an Italian cured pork cheek. It’s a key ingredient in carbonara and alla gricia. The cheek
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Wonton soup has long been one of my favorite foods. It was one of the only things I ate as small child and I have many fond memories of my small self, kneeling on a chair at our round laminate kitchen table, meticulously wrapping wonton for dinner. I would always make the wonton extra tiny.
If you love cookies and you love mochi, let me introduce you to the most epic cookie you will ever eat: mochi stuffed chocolate chip cookies. Yes, mochi and chocolate chip cookies, together forever! What is a mochi cookie? Before we get into it, maybe you’re wondering, what the heck is a mochi cookie? It’s