01 Tuesday Nov 2011
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cherry tomatoes, cooking, cream sauce, easy dinners, fish, food, japanese cooking, konnyaku, low calorie, new food, pasta, recipe, seafood, shirataki noodles, tofu, tuna, vegan, vegetarian, weight loss, weird food
Have you heard of these noodles with very few calories, Shirataki? WELL, the thought of a low-calorie (20-calories per serving or something SO negligible) noodle that tasted normal was so enticing to me that I just HAD to buy some when I saw them in the store.
25 Tuesday Oct 2011
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cooking, delicious, food, fresh ginger, ginger pork, japanese cooking, pork chop, recipes, sesame, soy sauce
When I was in high school I had a sweet-a** cafeteria that had offerings like ramen (not the 68-cent stuff, massive bowls of noodles, veggies, and pork), curry with beef, mashed potatoes and gravy, fried fish, and spaghetti with meat sauce.
Wanna know the weird thing?
It was all good. Really good.
One of my favorite things that the cafeteria offered on a weekly basis was ginger chicken. Whole, bone-in, skin-on chicken breasts were simmered for hours in a thin fresh ginger-soy sauce and it. was. amazing. Everyone loved ginger chicken day!
I, uh, borrowed this sweet Japanese cookbook from my mom – she took a cooking class from the author when we moved to Tokyo and learned to make some fabulous dishes from it! I use it often, and the ginger pork recipe is one of my favorites – I’ve used it on chicken too, and it tastes just like high school!
25 Tuesday Oct 2011
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asian cooking, bok choy, chinese cooking, cooking, easy, food, healthy, japanese cooking, recipe, side dish, vegan, vegetable, vegetarian
There’s a restaurant in Tokyo (is it still there? anyone? nope, it isn’t. I Googled it. ) called Fujimamas that is amazing. Was amazing. That’s all. It served Asian Fusion food with a Japanese emphasis (duh) and was one of my favorite places to go growing up. One of my favorite dishes was grilled shark with baby bok choy and avocado and WHOA was it good. I’m not actually sure I ever ordered anything else there, come to think of it!
Fujimamas is one of my first memories of eating bok choy, and it was a great decision each time I ordered the dish. I got some baby bok choy from the farmers market a few weeks ago, and while I didn’t try to recreate the dish, I did try to recreate the flavors of the sauce with the veggie – this is spicy, easy, and super healthy!