Japanese home cooking

Dishes I cook

• Osechi dishes for the first three days of the new year.
  
  
  
• Matcha (milled green tea for tea ceremony) and cakes.
  
  
  
• Obento for my daughter 4: Rice is cooked with chestnuts, one of the popular cooking in autumn
  
  
  
• Japanese meal: rice, miso soup with tofu and sea vegetable, grilled salmon, cooked mizuna leaves with fried tofu and ikanago fish with grated radish)
  
  
  
• Squids from my neighbor. He went fishing in the sea and gave me some of the catch.
  
  
  
  
• Sashimi and tempra from the squids above.
  
  
  
  
• Hoto noodle, popular thick noodle in Yamanashi, the prefecture which has Mt. Fuji.
  
  
  
  
• Rice omelette
  
  
  
  
• Stuffed peppers
  
  
  
  
• Croquette
  
  
  
  
• Gyoza; Dumplings stuffed with minced pork and vegetables
  
  
  
  
• Tenshin-han; Originally come from China, but already become Japanese food, too. With miso soup.
  
  
  
  
• Japanese dinner; Fresh oysters with lemon and soy sauce, Salad of boiled spinach and beansprout, Sashimi of yellowtail fish, pumpkin with meat and ginger thick sauce, rice, miso soup.
  
  
  
  
• And this is how the leftover of the Chirashi-zushi (sushi) is born again as another dish on the next day, fourth, March; Inari-zushi, sushi rice stuffed in fried Tofu, sesame on it.
  
  
  
  
• Chirashi-zushi; Home style sushi, often cooked for Hina Festival, wishing girls healthy and sound growth.
  
  
  
  
• Obento for my daughter 3. I named it "Yayoi Kusama Obento". Yayoi Kusama is one of the most famous Japanese modern artists. She uses a lot of dots in her works.
  
  
  
  
• Shishamo no karaage; Fried caplins
  
  
  
  
• Yakisoba; Fried noodle with meat and vegetable. Attached is ginger pickled with purple basil.
  
  
  
  
• Boiled small sardines on Mozuku sea vegetable from Okinawa.
  
  
  
  
• Typical Japanese home meal 2
  
  
  
  
• Takoyaki dumplings; a piece of boiled octopus is in the each ball.
  
  
  
  
• Nikujaga; Beef with potato, the most homely cooking. You should know how to cook it before you get married.
  
  
  
  
• Dinner with a guest. A little more gorgeous than usual.
  
  
  
  
• Kiritanpo Nabe; Nabe means "pot cooking". Kiritanpo Nabe is a specialty from Akita Prefecture. Nabe is the symbol of the "fireside" of families in winter.
  
  
  
  
• Tonjiru; Miso soup with pork, lotus root, taro, radish, carrot and konjaku. It warms you in winter.
  
  
  
  
• Obento for my daughter 2
  
  
  
  
• Nanakusagayu; rice porridge with seven kinds of herbs eaten on Jan. 7. Very good for your stomach. And sashimi; raw fish
  
  
  
  
• Tempura
  
  
  
  
• Soup with tofu, edamame(young soy beans) and tomatoes
  
  
  
  
• Fresh bonito salad
  
  
  
  
• Typical Japanese home meal
  
  
  
  
• Minced-sardine hamburgers
  
  
  
  
• Obento for my daughter
  
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