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French bread gets dried and hard just after a few hours if you left out, You might cut your mouth if you’re  eating this as it is but you can make the best French toast out of this! I mean I can’t eat other French toast anymore. About 1/3 of French toast Cut into slices Soak into the mixture of these 1egg 3/4 cup of milk (about 170 cc) 1 tablespoon of sugar cinnamon (optional) You flip the bread and coat with the mixture. Heat up the frying pan, put some oil, maybe some butter and cook for a few minutes each both sides. Put on the plates, enjoy with butter and powdered sugar. Non-Stick Frying pan

Salmon Teriyaki with rice, miso soup, vegetable This salmon Teriyaki is very easy. No marinade necessary.  First, mix these to make a sauce and set aside.  1 Tablespoon of Soy Sauce  1 Tablespoon each of water and sweet sake  1 Teaspoon of Sugar hint of grated ginger (optional) Heat up frying pan, coat with oil, Place the salmon, skin-side up in the pan. Cook until golden brown on 1 side. Turn the fish over with a spatula, and cook until it feels firm to the touch and the skin is crisp if desired. Add the sauce, cook till the sauce get a little thicker. Serve with cooked rice and enjoy! Here's Mirin (Sweet Sake) you can use white wine instead.

Today is my son's basket ball game. In Japanese, "Katsu" sounds same as "Winning".  So, it's popular to eat cutlet (katsu) before you are going to important tests, games. It is very good and has a nice texture as a food. Everybody would like as a nice lunch/dinner. You can use tenderloin, (above) or loin, or chicken. Pepper and salt the meat, and coat with flour on about 1/4 inch thick meat. beat an egg in a bowl,  coat the meat in the egg, then put in a bowl with bread crumbs (sold as panko) heat oil. I use just a little more than to cover. after heating up on the pan, put breadcrumbs coated meat, cook each side until golden brown. (about 2 minutes each) I put Tonkatsu sauce (sold at asian store) on top.

Are you ready for the holiday? It's getting chilly out, For a lot of us, Japanese, (or Asian), it's time to enjoy Nabe. We cook vegetable and meat, fish on a table and dip on a favorite sauce. Once you prepare ingredients, you can cook as you eat, sitting around the table, we would take turn to cook, serve, and eat with favorite drink such as sake. I recently enjoyed Thai style nabe. The recipe is for about 4 people. Ingredients are simple. You'll need half of a whole Chinese cabbage, green onion, next to Chinese cabbage is called "Shungiku" (garland chrysanthemum) You can find those vegetable at Asian market, but you can skip some ingredients if you can't find them. On this Thai Nabe, I used Cilantro, if you have Asian market near you, you can buy Shirataki (konnyaku noodles), Enoki mushroom, and Tofu (may be you can get all over nowadays). Chop all vegetables/tofu into bitable size, boil over konnyaku noodles and chop. For meat and fis...

Easy Tilapia Saute Recipe Tilapia is relatively cheap fish in the U.S. I found a good recipe from cookpad and I arranged some. You can use any fish filet!  1) Season fish with sprinkle of salt, white wine (about 1 table spoon) beforehand. Keep in the refrigerator about 30 min. 2) Dry fish with a paper towel and season with old bay or any seasoning you like,  then coat with flour.  3) Heat the pan and melt about 2 table spoon of butter or coconut oil. After pan is heated enough, put the tilapia until bottom is nicely brown and crunchy. 4) Flip the fish, brown the other side half way and add 1/3 cup (80ml) of white wine and cook until wine is evaporated. Done! Serve with rice / potato / vegetable and enjoy! PFOA Free Non Stick Pan with Lid! Luxury, but may be it worth it! All-Clad 41135 NS R2 Stainless Steel Tri-Ply Bonded Dishwasher Safe 13-Inch PFOA-free Non-Stick French Skillet with Loop Handle and Lid / Cookware, Silver

Gyoza is my favorite. I guess it called dumplings in English. You can find in the frozen food area, but I make these every now and then. It is a lot of work to make but when I eat them, it worth the trouble. Ground pork : 150 gram Cabbage : 200 gram Green onion : 2 or 3 strings grated ginger : about 1 tea spoon Chinese chive (if available) : 50 gram Soy Sauce 1/2 tea spoon Salt 1/2 tea spoon Sake (Japanese rice wine) 1 table spoon Sesame Oil 1 tea spoon Gyoza Skin : 1 pack 1) Boil cabbage for a few minute, drain and squeeze off the liquid and chop into mince. chop all other vegetables. throw in meat and all the seasonings in a bowl and mix well with your hands (yack!) 2) Put spoonful of the mixture above on the gyoza skin. Wet the half end and fold in to make a gyoza. You can make about 30 gyoza with ingredients above. 3) heat the pan with oil, put gyoza on the pan and put a nice brown mark on a side. Flip the gyoza and add 1/4 cup of the wa...

At least once a week, we have burritos for dinner.  I don't know about authentic recipe, but this is my recipe for my son, who doesn't eat vegetables otherwise. Cut garlic, half onion, chicken, may be green pepper, cilantro, and stir fly until everything is nicely cooked. season with spices like paprika, cumin, garlic powder, coriander powder, etc..  salt and half of lemon juice. I usually wrap with rice, refried bean, meat (above) guacamole (if available) salsa, cheese sour cream..

I bake bread with Panasonic Bread Machine that I bought 3 years ago. I struggle to find a good recipe and I was using this recipe from the blog I wrote while ago but I wasn't totally satisfied with that and now, I think I am settled with this one. Bread Flour : about 200g Gluten Flour : about one Table Spoon or 10g Whole Grain flour : 40g The total flour should be 250g Sugar : 2 table spoons Salt : 1 tea spoon Butter : about 10g Milk : 170 cc Yeast : little less than 1 tea spoon I use brown sugar, sea salt and almond milk for healthier option. I sometimes use coconut oil instead of butter. I like this recipe more because you don't have to use scale when you put sugar and salt. Even butter doesn't have to be exact. I used to use powder milk and water but since I don't bake bread overnight because it's too noisy in this little apartment. It takes 4 hours in a usual setting so you need to plan but short setting makes it done in 2 hours though it ma...

I made this pie to take to a dinner party one Saturday. Inside is two layer of cream cheese and berries. The recipe is from a Japanese lady lives in North California. Her English Recipe Page I don't see this recipe so I'll write it here. You'll need Pie Crust from the store. (I used Trader Joe's) 1 pie sheet mix these in a bowl :(A) Cream Cheese : 1 pack (8 oz /227g) Egg York :1 Powder sugar : 1/3 cup (80cc) Corn starch 1 table spoon mix these in a bowl as well (B) Your favorite berries : 2 cups / 500cc Corn Starch : 1 table spoon Sugar : depends on how sweet the berries are, but I put 3 table spoon. Egg white : left over from egg york sugar to sprinkle at the end : a little 1) Stretch pie sheet into big thin round shape. 2) on 1), spread (A) in the middle. leave 3 inch from the edge to make a fold. 3) on 2), put (B) and fold the end to like photo above.  then brush egg white on the pie crust on top then sprinkle some sugar 4) Bake on 40...

Chicken and broccoli piccata recipe Chicken breast 1.3 lbs - cut thin and put salt and pepper broccoli - about 1 branch - lightly boiled Sauce - Mix those ingredients Eggs - 2 Flour - 4 table spoon Miso - 1 table spoon Dried Oregano or favorite herb - 1/2 tea spoon or more 1)Heat flying pan with 1 table spoon salad oil. sauté chicken lightly. 2)put broccoli and cooked checkin into the egg sauce. 3)After clean up flying pan, heat 1 table spoon of butter and put 2) into the pan. cook both sides until egg sauce is cooked. ------------------------- I found this recipe from Japanese magazine called ""ESSE" Jan 2014. Chicken breast tends to be dry. The magazine says this recipe doesn't let chicken dry up. In the U.S. people seem like prefer breast chicken than dark chicken. I guess in Asia it's opposite. I was looking for more recipe that cooks breast meat nicely and it was a success. I have never made piccata but heard of it. I guess it's I...

I baked chocolate chip cookies yesterday. I found this recipe from Japanese recipe submission website called cookpad. This recipe is so easy and good. Chocolate chip cookies In English.. a) All purpose flour : 140 grams     Baking powder : 1 tea spoon     non sugar added cocoa powder : 1 tea spoon mix those above ingredients (a) in a bowl b) Room temperature Butter : 70 grams     Sugar  : 70 grams     egg : 1 c) chocolate chip : 100 grams   Mix  those above ingredients (b) in a bowl and then shift in (a) to (b) then mix in chocolate chip (c) Put 1 table spoonful to the cookie sheet, bake at 325 F for 12 minutes, then lower the temperature to 300 F and bake another 15 minutes. Wait til cool down a bit and enjoy! By the way, I design cute t-shirts just perfect for the Valentine's day and anniversaries! http://www.zazzle.com/peacewing