Travel Theme: Cooking in Asia
In Asia cooking is more akin to performance art, especially in Malaysia where I captured these videos of them cooking up two of my favourite meals. Roti Canai, my go-to […]
Category Archives: Japanese Food
Carrying the Omikoshi, a Japanese Shrine
The Powell St. Festival in Vancouver is a celebration of Japanese heritage in the province. One of the highlights for me is when they carry the omikoshi shrine through the park amidst […]
Weekly Photo Challenge: Japanese Food as a Work of Art
I don’t usually think of food as a work of art. But when I was in Japan it seemed like all food was a work of art. Even the breakfast […]
Japanese Home-Cooking Class #2
The second Japanese Home-Cooking class contained introductions to even more Japanese ingredients that I had never heard of. We started with miso soup with little beech mushrooms, and then began prepping […]
Japanese Cooking Class #1
Our first class started with an introduction to a bewildering array of difficult-to-pronounce ingredients, most of which were to be used in the class recipes. We were to start with […]
A ‘roll your own’ sushi party!
Here is a fun ‘interactive’ party; you set out the ingredients, the guests ‘roll their own’ cone sushi. The ingredients: NORI – large flat sheets of seaweed cut into ~ […]
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