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Washoku Guide

Cooking tips and recipes from a Japanese kitchen

Rice grains of wisdom

Cooking rice

Taking stock of basics

The perfect dashi (stock)

A good reason to hit the sauce

Ponzu joyu and Kotsu mushi

Ume, back in the pink

The standard umeboshi: pickled plums

Savoring rewards of slow food

Umeboshi of variety

Hiyashi somen: the cool slurp of summer

Japanese vermicelli with dipping sauce

I love you, I knead you

Udon: wheat noodles made in the old-fashion way

The buckwheat starts here

Handmade soba noodles

A journey back to old 'new Japanese cuisine'

Fried-and-pickled fish with onions and hot chili peppers

Gently add mom's miso, while stirring in humility

Aka dashi: provincial miso soup

Hit the sweet spot with eel on the grill

Kabayaki: eels basted with sweet soy sauce

The king of mushrooms rules in fall

Steamed matsutake mushroom in clear soup

May we live long on beans and rice

Sweet red bean soup with rice cakes

Kitchen tools that you can trust

Goma dofu: tofu made from sesame

Grater expectations

Taro with grated daikon

Help heal the spirit with comfort food

Jibu-ni: simmered vegetables in chicken stock

A new kama meshi treat every season

Kama meshi: garnished rice

Holy mackerel! That's quite a fish!

Saba cooked in miso sauce

Salted mackerel will reel 'em in every time

Senba-jiru: Osaka's saba and daikon soup

Fresh every day of the week

Saba no kizushi: vinegared mackerel

The satisifying taste of less is more

Chawan Mushi: steamed savory custard

We're talking real tofu

Agedashi-dofu: deep fried tofu in broth

When everyone gets in on the act

Yose-nabe: pot stew cooked in a rich broth

The days of eating dangerously

Tecchiri nabe: blowfish in your pot

Kawatare: a fleeting taste of twilight

Kawatare nabe: chicken soup with soymilk

Gearing up for the New Year

Mutsu no misozuke: miso marinated big-eye

Black beans for a fruitful new year

Kuromame: sweetened black beans

Tazukuri: an acquired taste worth acquiring

Dry-roasted small sardines

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