If you are a sushi lover, you will enjoy the green stuff, wasabi. You take some wasabi and stir in soy sauce. You dip sushi into the cloudy soy sauce and bring into your month. Next thing, wasabi aroma hits your nose. What a sensation! It is because of a unique component called allyl isothiocyanate. It does not exist in…
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What is Mabo Tofu? Mabo Tofu, also known as Mapo Doufu, is a delicious Chinese dish made with tofu and ground meat that is cooked in a savory, spicy sauce. My husband and I just came back from Upstate New York where the temperature was minus double digits. The winter weather has been mild and no snow on the ground until…
What do you know about grains? How do you eat them without adding sugar like cereal or salt like chips? Do you like quinoa salad? Is it hard to eat because it doesn’t stick together? We all need to add more grains to our diet. Glycemic Index is a measurement how fast blood sugar level goes up after eating. If…
The other day I received my blood test result. Everything looks normal except cholesterol. Fortunately, the doctor told me that my cholesterol levels are not high enough to need to start a new medication. He suggested things that I can do to improve cholesterol levels, including: 1) Reduce the amount of calories and carbohydrates in your diet. I already reduced the…
You try to cook healthy ingredients to be healthy and to lose weight, correct? What if the healthy ingredient becomes even healthier when cooked with another ingredient? Thoughts to Japanese food are very complicated. You are supposed to eat this with that so that you get more health benefits from multiplier effect. On the other hand, you are not supposed to…
Miso keeps the doctor away! Mio is very important ingredient and supported Japanese people’s health for over 1300 years. When soybeans are fermented, it generates essential amino acids and multi vitamins. Miso restores probiotics to the intestine and promotes digestion. It strengthens the immune system and helps to lower cholesterol. These are just few reasons why Japanese people have miso soup every…
Heat up oil in frying pan, place meat. You hear sizzling sound, and oil starts dancing around the meat. Stop!! I wrote about how to cook chicken breast with oven toaster without using cooking oil, such as Grilled Peanut Butter Chicken and Grilled Mustard Chicken. Today I would like to write about how to cook meat in frying pan. Drop…
Do you like teriyaki sauce? Traditional teriyaki sauce is made out of soy sauce, sake, mirin (Japanese cooking wine) and sugar. I came up with an easier teriyaki sauce recipe when I visited my second home town Upstate New York. I did not have sake and mirin. I could have gotten them at Wegmans (a very nice supermarket that we…
Japanese people like to adopt ingredients from all over the world. When salted lemon (preserved lemon with salt) was introduced to Japan a few years ago, it was the center of media, TV, books, magazines and etc. They say it’s a magical ingredient originated in Morocco. Even I made salt lemon when my mom got lots off organic yuzu (Japanese…
Now we all wait for New Year to come. I would like to share one more healthy 500 calories holiday meal recipe. Do you have leftover red wine from Christmas? Great! Let’s use some for this hearty tomato stewed chicken. I also want to add my special sides, potato salad and asparagus salad. Good news is that you get full with…