On children’s day, Japanese people eat chimaki to pray for good health. Chimaki is a rice dumpling wrapped in bamboo leaves.   This year my Children’s Day menu was: Sashimi (hirame, kampachi, maguro, which is flatfish, great amberjack, and tuna!) Marinated tomatoes with citrus Cooked beans Beef and bamboo shoots and asparagus fried in oyster sauce Tofu with […]

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Picture: White miso paste is a great ingredient to keep at the back of your fridge! Miso is a seasoning made from fermented soybeans, salt, and a fungus known as kouji. The result is a versatile thick paste that can be used for a million and one things! Most commonly known of course is miso soup, […]

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Photo: taken from this Aldi commercial We have a pretty unique Christmas here in the Southern Hemisphere. No snow, no jumpers, and Santa uses kangaroos to drive his sleigh. But Japan is lucky enough to have the possibility of a white Christmas as it’s winter over there (and they have spectacular Christmas light displays!) in just the […]

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Our last two posts we talked about our Washoku Lovers Kitchen event for Japanese curry rice, and we gave you the curry recipe and instructions for making warabimochi. Did you try making any of them? Let us know if you did by leaving a comment! This week, we’ll tell you how the class went as a whole! It started in […]

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This weekend just gone, we held our third Washoku Lovers Kitchen event! It was a great success, selling out really quickly – thanks to this we’re already working on our next event so everyone can start enjoying washoku at home. Instead of just assisting this time around, I also got to help cook and demonstrate how […]

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