Food Recipes and Blogs By a Japanese Mum in the UK
Very quick and easy salad recipe. My kids eat it without complaining so it’s a treat for me! If you can’t find a tin of crab meat, you can use tuna instead. Prep Time: 5 mins Total Time: 8 mins Yield: For 4 people as small side dish About 10cm cucumber 1 small carrots 1 small tin of Crabmeat 2 tbs sweet corn Seasoning 1 tsp lemon juice 2 tbs Mayonaise (Japanese one
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Today, I made Taiyaki (鯛焼き) after a long time. Taiyaki is a Japanese fish-shaped cake which has, traditionally, sweet red beans paste inside, and its name literally means “Baked Sea Bream”. Why Baked “Sea Bream – TAI 鯛”? It is rather odd to think baked sea breams can be this popular. There won’t be many nations on earth who appreciate stuffing some sweet inside a fish would be a popular
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I truly believe there is no boundary in a map of the food world. Food is an essence of living and everybody have to have some nutritious intake no matter how much different they can be. It is a base of our daily life and as they say, “you are what you eat”, you must put it as a priority in your life. If everyone in the world started sharing food with neighbours, I seriously
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A very popular Japanese sweet bread called メロンパン、meaning melon bread. Every bakery and every convenience store will have one available for you in Japan and they are our old time favourite for young and old. You will need to prepare 2 types of doughs, one for bread and one for the cookie topping on top. But it only requires very basic ingredients and once you learn how to make it
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This is a quick side dish you can make in no time. While you are making the main, it’s done. I only called it a quick kimchi but I only named it so as my old Chinese friend back in my Uni life in Sheffield, who unfortunately lost in touch, taught me how with the name. I wonder how she is doing. I’m sure she is doing great whatever she’s
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One of my favourite vegetables is the lotus roots. It has such a crunchy texture that makes noise when you bite into it. It’s a root vegetable that eaten very often in Japan but unfortunately, they are only available from oriental food stores in the UK at the moment. This Japanese style of cooking, Kinpira きんぴら, implies to a pan-fried and simmered method of cooking and usually seasoned with soya sauce, mirin
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Finally found an easy sponge cake recipe that doesn’t disappoint you with all the effort and eggs that goes into! This recipe should not fail once you follow the easy steps and you don’t even need to separate the egg yolks and whites like other sophisticated recipes, for a soft and delicious basic sponge cake that can be used for any toppings of your choice. For 18cm cake tin (approx 989 cals
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My first attempt to make our nation’s favourite (Japan) Melon Bread became quite a success this evening!!! My friend makes such a wonderful Melon Bread and I never thought I could make it myself, but when she gave me the recipe last week, I thought this might be the chance. Kids encouraged me telling me how delicious they can be and but on the other hand thinking it’ll be messy and
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So glad I found this recipe, oatmeal dates cookie, as my dried dates were near the expiry and needed to make something for kids quickly!! I gave it a little twist as reducing the amount of sugar and adjust other ingredients to begin with and added pecan. It turned out very good! Kids loved it too so here we go, if you happen to have dates and pecan, or any other nuts
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Miso Soup (味噌汁 miso shiru) Miso soup is a type of soup that is most commonly consumed in Japan. It has the soup base with DASHI stock made with seaweed or fish which has full of UMAMI. Traditionally the stock was prepared from the scratch but nowadays powdered or cube type of ready made stocks are popular. This trend is same aswestern way of using stock. The miso is
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