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Japanese Food and Culture: A Vegetarian Menu to Celebrate Spring
———– Clockwise from far left: short grain brown rice with aduki beans, hijiki with lotus root and carrot, shungiku and apple with walnut dressing, daikon and apricot sunomono, clear soup with brown...
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Some Thoughts on The Japanese Earthquake and Tsunami
———– Minutes ago, I put up a post featuring a Japanese menu celebrating spring, and I wondered to myself if that was even appropriate. As we are all aware, at the moment there is little celebrating of...
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Menu Of The Week: An Early April Meal Inspired By Japanese Vegetarian Cuisine
———– Clockwise from center top: Short Grain Brown Rice with Bamboo Shoots, Warm and Spicy Cabbage Slaw, Braised Tofu and Vegetables (Click on photo to enlarge). ———– I recently acquired a copy of...
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Interested in Deepening Your Experience of Japanese Cuisine? Meet Elizabeth...
———– ———– If you love Japanese food but think it too mysterious and intimidating to cook at home, or if you just want to deepen your knowledge of this sophisticated cuisine, Elizabeth Andoh is someone...
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New Cooking Class: Unlocking The Secrets of Japanese Vegetarian Cooking
———— ———— When Fumiko Arao and I got together in March to cook a Japanese vegetarian feast for this blog, the thought arose that maybe we should teach a cooking class together. I’m happy to announce...
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Learn How to Make Six Beautiful Dishes in MacroChef’s Japanese Vegetarian...
———– ———– Although the Bay Area is chock-a-block with Japanese restaurants, the food they serve gives you only a hint of what Japanese cuisine, in it’s diversity, is all about. Japan, particularly,...
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Menu of the Week: See the Summery Japanese Dishes We Made in Our MacroChef...
———– ———– The Japanese vegetarian cooking class which Fumiko Arao and I had been planning for months finally happened last Saturday (June 25th), and with 15 participants, we declared it a success. From...
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Aduki Beans Pair With Garnet Yams In A Colorful, Autumnal Potage
———– ———– One of the great things about dried beans is that they’re always in your pantry, ready to use. And while it’s never wrong to cook any bean at any time of year, I just think kidney beans and...
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More Secrets of Japanese Vegetarian Cooking: My Lunch With Fumi
———– ———– I drove down recently to Fumiko (Fumi) Arao’s home in the lush hills above Silicon Valley where we planned to test recipes for our upcoming cooking class. When I arrived, to my great...
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Learn Eight Elegant Dishes In Our Japanese Vegetarian Cooking Class
———– ———– As much as I love giving cooking classes (and I do), I only seem to get around to it about once a year. This year, as last, I’m teaching a class jointly with Fumiko Arao. Fumi, born and...
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