Food Recipes and Blogs By a Japanese Mum in the UK
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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Tuna pasta is my kids favourite and mine, as it’s quick & easy plus eating fish dish makes us feel better. I probably make pasta with tinned tuna the most if our old time favourite bolognese sauce is not available. This one is with olive oil, fresh cherry tomatoes and buffalo mozzarella cheese. But I always use some hidden vegetables because with pasta sauce, it’s very easy to disguise vegetables
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Great way to create one more dish on your dinner table. Using a well known Japanese dressing, which has vinegar with sweetness and saltiness, called Sanbai-zu 三杯酢 (vinegar x 3), you can add a kick to your plate (in a nice way of course). Serves 4Some crab meatCucumber (about 3 cm of whole cucumber thinly sliced)Red Radish (about 3 thinly sliced) For Dressing1 teaspoon of vinegar (Preferably Japanese rice vinegar)1
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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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I’m so lucky to know my friend from China. Her cooking is so authentic and simply wonderful. I met her when my son became a good friend of her son, whose family have been migrated to the UK from China a couple of years ago. Her steamed dumpling.. what can I say, it’s filled with her sophisticated personality inside and out. Not that I know her for so long or
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I have been experimenting some Chinese herbal soup since we had some health issues and our Chinese friend kindly given us the ingredients to start up the habit! It is great. I was always interested in the Chinese herbal medicines but didn’t know where to start. Now, here I am. Thanks to our lovely friend, Rinh! OK, this is something she has recommended me to begin with. We’ve added white
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The Easter holiday is FINALLY over. It was one of the longest holiday we’ve experienced.. simply because we didn’t plan “a holiday away” from UK? My son says, it was just like a long weekend… I kind of agree.. anyway, it was nice. We managed to have lots of activities and fun with people who we cannot usually spend enough time with unless during such a relaxing school holiday. Just
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Breakfast is the most important meal of the day but the fact is the most difficult one to make it as a priority. My kids always preferred Japanese breakfast which is fine. I couldn’t complain much as it is a healthy balanced breakfast but the amount of time it takes to prepare!? When there is less time on the breakfast table, they might eat alternatives but they never give me those easy cereal
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These cookies are guilty free as it’s sugar free! And, kids love them. You can reduce the amount of honey accordinging to the amount of sugar there might be in the chocolate you’re using. Personally this is a win win recipe for a very satisfying treat for you and your family. This photo is with some peanuts but you can add any nuts or seeds to add extra flavour and
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At the dinning table today, my son said, do you know “Corn-Dog”? I said… you mean, “next time”? That is Kondo(こんど) in Japanese meaning next time. Never knew there was such a thing and as he asked me to google it, I did, telling kids this is a family emergency that I need to use my phone on the dinning table. Corn-Dog is “American-Dog” in Japanese and yes, I know
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