What is Umami? Ponder the oyster. Tom yum. Carne asada. All umami. Don't try to define it! Just surrender to the addiction; savor the flavor implosion.
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Loading ...August 9, 2010
I mention all the time that there’s a Greenmarket every Wednesday outside of my work. There’s an awesome Korean-owned farm, who always have Japanese cucumbers, eggplants and shishito peppers. This season, shiso is abundant as well. I only buy shiso there since everything else is extremely expensive. On top of
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July 13, 2010
My friend Futoshi came back from Japan and brought some of the newest and weirdest junk food from the motherland.
In recent months, the most popular food item in Japan is apparently the edible chill-infused oil or 食べる辣油. I saw articles about it in newspapers everywhere– Japan’s major condiment brand Momoya, came out
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July 9, 2010
Omg, I totally forgot to write about Candytown, right next door to the San Pedro Fish Market! Silly me!
After gorging ourselves with shrimp, oysters and ceviche, we finally called
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July 6, 2010
PREFACE: Ingredients + Recipe Prep + Boil
I’m not sugarcoating this. I need you to understand what a truly, utterly, and horrifyingly HUGE PAIN IN THE ASS this entire project is. When browsing the I N T
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July 5, 2010
In Japan, people give gifts to each other on many occasions. Don’t you have one or two Japanese friends, who give you gifts whenever they return from Japan despite the fact that you’ve never given them anything? You thought, “This is awkward, do you like me or something?!” right? I have no
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June 29, 2010
Summer is here. You know how I know? Christi called me last week and said, “We’ve got plums coming out of our ying yang, from the trees in our back yard. Will you come take them?”
Yes, this is the same Christi who handed me bags of apricots last year,
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June 14, 2010
When you think of tahini, it’s all about middle eastern cuisine, right? For sauces, hummus, and even cookies, it gives everything a nice sesame flavor. Although it has an exotic name (sounds like a beach in tropical island, doesn’t it?), it’s basically just sesame paste.
You can buy sesame paste
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June 4, 2010
Today is National Donut Day! I woke up this morning in high anticipation for this and walked over to my local donut shop, Colonial Donuts. Love me a glazed donut first thing in the morning.
According to Wiki, this day was created by the
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May 24, 2010
There are quite a few breakfast sandwich recipes in Japan that uses natto. The natto & cheese on toast sounded pretty good. Put natto and cheese on bread or an English muffin and toast it, I guess. But it is too straightforward and not my style. I wanted to push natto’s culinary
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May 3, 2010
I am still MO-ing. Just like many of my other endeavors, I have the tendency to keep tackling something until I am satisfied. I think I am nearing the end of this MO-Journey. There are endless ways to create MO-Desserts, and as I
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