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IMG: peach pasta with basil

Juucy fragrant peaches work surprisingly well in this summertime appetizer pasta.

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IMG: Nanban glazed onions

A simple thing, delicious, and eyecatching recipe starring the humble yellow onion.

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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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The weather has finally gotten warm around these parts after a very cold spring, and we're eating more summertime food now. This is one of our favorite salad-type dishes. The sesame dressing is very versatile, and you can use it for any manner of things, but here I've just used it with cucumber.

Tip: the longer you let it rest before serving, the saltier the cucumber will get, so if you want to serve it as a salad you'd want to combine the cucumber with the dressing just before serving. On the other hand, if you let it marinate in the refrigerator the cucumber becomes assertive enough to eat with plain rice as part of a Japanese meal.

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

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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

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Attempting to turn cranky Maki into happy Maki through the power of fermentation. Plus a recipe for hummus with miso.

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Printable cards for communicating dietary restrictions in Japan

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A selection of print and cut cards to communicate your dietary requirements and restrictions in Japanese. I've edited it to add some more information about food product labeling.

Type:  feature Filed under:  restaurants vegetarian vegan japan travel health and weight loss printables allergies

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A very simple creamy soup, made with a quintessentially Japanese spring vegetable, bamboo shoot or takenoko.

Filed under:  japanese soup spring vegetarian yohshoku gluten-free

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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.

Filed under:  japanese vegetables fall vegetarian washoku

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