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Cooking with Myoga
The photo above shows a myoga flower in bloom. Like the cherry blossom, it is a harbinger of spring. Although myoga (Zingiber mioga) is related to the ginger plant, it’s not the tuberous root, but...
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Cold-Smoked Herring Bouzushi
Sushi is a great hot-weather food. The vinegar in the rice helps lift a sagging appetite and aids the digestion. Depending on the kind of ingredients you use, you can get away with using minimal heat...
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Pickled Mackerel on Puff Pastry Rafts
Sushi fans will probably be familiar with shime-saba (pickled raw mackerel). Traditionally, saba is marinated in a sweetened-vinegar mixture before serving raw as sashimi or sushi topping. I have...
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Foil-Baked Salmon and Barley
Those who have been following my food blogs already know how much I like fresh salmon. September is the peak of salmon season around here, and now that it’s well into October, it looks like today’s...
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Sanma no Tataki (Pacific Saury Tartare)
Pacific Saury (sanma) is my Absolutely Favorite fish in the Whole Wide World (salmon is in second place by a hair’s breadth), and when it is in season, sashimi is the absolutely best way to eat it....
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Marinated Smoked Dried Squid Salad
If you live in Japan, or have access to some of the more common Japanese snack foods, you have certainly seen– and probably eaten– some of the huge variety of dried squid products that are usually...
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Age-bitashi of Jakoten and Taro
This is an example of unsophisticated home-cooking that makes up for its lack of visual pizzaz with wonderful flavor and texture. Age-bitashi is a dish in which the main ingredients have been...
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Shimesaba Mizore-Ae with Apples
Mizore, which literally means “sleet” in Japanese, is also a culinary term used to describe clear soups or nabe-mono into which finely grated daikon radish has been stirred. Ae stands for Ae-mono,...
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Butter-fried Cod Milt and Angelica-tree Shoots with Citrus Segments
Japan has a very season-conscious culture, and this is certainly reflected in the foods that are listed on my weekly food co-op order sheet. Nothing beats eating the produce of the sea and the hills...
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Crunchy Raw Potato and Smoked Salmon Salad
2 uncooked medium-sized potatoes 5 slices smoked salmon 1 Tablespoon Pesto 2 Tablespoons mayonnaise 1/2 teaspoon fresh lemon juice Salt, pepper to taste 1. Peel the potatoes and use a slicer to make...
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