Gyuniku Itame: Stir-Fried Beef and Green Peppers
Here’s a quick and easy main dish you can make using only ingredients you can find anywhere – (well, assuming your local convenience store sells cooking sake.) I don’t have that much to say about...
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It’s probably not the first thing you think of, but if you ask me Japan’s true national dish is curry. Japanese people are crazy for the stuff: it’s served constantly, both at home and in restaurants....
View ArticlePiman Nikuzume: Bell Peppers stuffed with Meat
Just looking at the Japanese name for this dish you can tell that something screwy is going on here: “piman” comes, of course, from the French “piment” – bell pepper. In fact, Piman Nikuzume is a...
View ArticleVegetable Agebitashi: Marinated Deep Fried Vegetables
It’s still hot in Montreal, so we’re still doing refreshing summer recipes. This one uses the same somen sauce we wrote about the other day – actually, we’re using leftovers here. This is one of the...
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