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Miso Soup with Pumpkin
Miso soup is a Japanese fixation: a shocking number of people in Japan will have a salty bowl of miso soup with every single meal, alongside the obligatory white rice. Even if we’re not quite so...
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Osuimono: Clear Broth with Fish
Osuimono is the other basic Japanese soup: the main alternative to miso soup when you’re making 1 soup-1 dish. At its best, osuimono is a very light broth: it should never be weighed down with too many...
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Tsukimi Udon: Noodle Soup with Poached Eggs
Udon is a traditional thick wheat noodle, extremely popular in my home region of Kansai. There are any number of ways to make Udon: recipes change from region to region and from season to season. The...
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Agedashi Tofu: Fried Tofu in Dashi Sauce
Nothing has done more to harm tofu’s reputation in the West than the sense that it’s “health food”. Lets face it: nobody wants to eat health food. “Health food” is just another way of saying “food that...
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Butajiru: Hearty Miso Soup flavored with Pork
Butajiru is basically miso soup, but with one special ingredient: pork. The key thing here, though, is to go beyond just pork and add a lot of vegetables: enough to take it up a notch from the light...
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Nuta: Spring Onions with Sweetened Miso Sauce
Nuta is an ancient Japanese side dish: the first recipes for it appear in documents from the end of the Muromachi Era – some 450 years ago. When I was a young girl, I can remember my grandmother making...
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Maguro zuke-don: Raw tuna over rice
As you know, I’m not a big fan of sushi. On an average day, making sushi is far too much work for the home cook to take on: you have to make the rice, flavor it with vinegar, then let it cool, then...
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Tofu salad with relish
How do you usually eat Tofu? In the Japanese repertoire, there are plenty of recipes to choose from, from Yu-dofu and Nabe to Miso soup, Kenchin-jiru, Agedashi tofu and Hiya-yakko, a popular fresh tofu...
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Hiyashi Somen: Chilled Noodles with Sauce
Boy, it’s hot in Montreal…really hot! Yesterday we had 34 degrees, but with 96% humidity it felt more like 40. With this weather, there’s only one Japanese dish you think of: an ice-cold noodle...
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Hiyashi Udon: Chilled Udon Noodles with Sauce
As you may have noticed, chilled noodles are a summertime favorite in Japan: an understandable reaction to the oppressive heat that falls over the country at this time of year. This version is not too...
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