vegetables

5-a-day lemon honey mustard salad pickles

Mixed vegetable pickles

A mixed-vegetable marinade or refrigerator pickles with lemon juice and honey.

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Sexy Wavy Japanese Sesame Cucumbers

Wavy sesame cucumbers

This is a really quick and simple cucumber recipe. Serve it as a side dish with any Japanese or other East Asian meal, or even as a salad. See the instructions for how to achieve the twisty, wavy look, even with large cucumbers.

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Japanese Cooking 101, Lesson 4, Part 2: Prepping Vegetables For Sunomono

Submitted by maki on 4 April, 2013 - 16:52

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In Part 2 of the sunomono lesson we'll take a look at some way of prepping the vegetables.

Type:  recipe Filed under:  japanese vegetables vegetarian vegan washoku japanesecooking101

Japanese Cooking 101, Lesson 4, Part 1 : Awase-zu (Vinegar Sauces) For Sunomono

Submitted by maki on 3 April, 2013 - 12:55

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This is Lesson 4 of Japanese Cooking 101: The Fundamentals of Washoku. In this lesson we'll learn how to make the little refreshing side dishes called sunomono (酢の物), which often accompany a Japanese meal. Part 1 is about the various vinegary sauce combinations, called awase-zu.

Type:  recipe Filed under:  preserves and pickles vegetables washoku japanesecooking101

Japanese Cooking 101, Lesson 3: Nimono (simmered dish) basics

Submitted by maki on 25 March, 2013 - 15:51

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This is Lesson 3 of Japanese Cooking 101: The Fundamentals of Washoku. This lesson is about making nimono (煮物) or stewed dishes, while we make a simple stewed or simmered winter vegetable dish.

Type:  recipe Filed under:  basics japanese vegetables washoku japanesecooking101

Nanohana in the Japan Times, plus the "Oborozukiyo" Hazy Spring Moon children's song

Nanohana no ohitashi

This month's Japanese Kitchen column in the Japan Times is about a quintessential early spring vegetable called nanohana. There's even a very well known children's song about it.

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Spring vegetables article in the Japan Times

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A new article in the Japan Times about spring mountain vegetables, plus a bit more about vegetables.

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How one retailer is dealing with the vegetable crisis in eastern Japan

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There is an ongoing crisis of confidence regarding the safety of vegetables from a farming area that mainly serves the Tokyo metropolitan area. I went to my favorite produce seller in Yokohama to see how they are dealing with it.

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Basics: How to sasagaki cut burdock root (gobo)

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Step-by-step instructions for making very thin shavings or doing the sasagaki cut on fibrous root vegetables like the burdock root or gobo.

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Double satoimo (taro root) with miso, sesame and honey

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This is a traditional satoimo or taro root recipe, where some of the root is used in the nutty sweet-savory sauce. It's a very 'fall' dish.

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