In Side Dish/ Tofu/ Vegetable/ Video Hijiki Nimono (Simmered Hijiki Seaweed) Recipe Hijiki Nimono is another home-cooking Japanese dish for everyday meals. Hijiki has a slender strip or thread-like shape. Typically, dried hijiki is sold in very… Continue Reading →
In Chicken/ Main Dish/ Vegetable/ Video Chikuzenni Recipe Chikuzenni (筑前煮) is a mix of vegetables such as Renkon (lotus root) and carrots, Konnyaku and chicken boiled in strongly flavored broth with soy… Continue Reading →
In Main Dish/ Pork/ Vegetable Nikujaga with Pork Recipe I always thought “proper” Nikujaga is made with beef but never with pork. That’s how my mom always made it, so I made it… Continue Reading →
In Beef/ Main Dish/ Vegetable/ Video Nikujaga (meat and potato stew) Recipe Nikujaga is literally meat (niku) and potatoes (jagaimo) in Japanese. It is a stewed dish seasoned with mainly soy sauce and sugar. It is… Continue Reading →
In Side Dish/ Vegetable/ Video Kabocha no Nimono (simmered pumpkin) Recipe Nimono is usually seasoned with combinations of soy sauce, sugar, Sake or Mirin that give vegetables sweet and salty flavors. The seasoned broth in… Continue Reading →