Tag: Japanese food
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Not-Quite Japanese Gyoza (Gluten Free)
Well, these are almost gyoza – I don’t think baking them really qualifies. I was trying to make pot sticker versions, but being too lazy to make my own wrappers I decide to try using rice paper instead. There were many such recipes on the Internet so I thought it would work. Unfortunately my first… Read more
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Japanese Breaded Pork Cutlets

One of the foods that Oscar really loved in Japan was pork cutlets. In fact it was the first time we’ve been able to get him to eat pork, so of course I had to find out how to make them. They are quite smple really, just meat coated in bread crumbs and deep fried.… Read more
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Okonomiyaki (Japanese Vegetable Pancake)

Okonomiyaki is one of my favourite Japanese foods, and since coming home from Japan I have been wanting to make it. Okonomiyaki is a Japanese vegetable pancake, made with cabbage and whatever else you would like to add. Okonomi means “whatever you wish” so it’s OK to make it with whatever ingredients you have and it is still authentic. Okonomiyaki is… Read more
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Japanese White Milk Bread (Milk Shokupan)

A few days after we got home from Japan Oscar asked me if I knew how to make bread. When I replied that I did, he asked if I could make some bread rolls like we had in Japan.The white bread in Japan is delicious. It can’t be at all healthy since it is white… Read more
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Travelling to Japan
We arrived home on the weekend after two weeks holiday in Japan. Japan was a fantastic country to travel in (very easy despite the language difference) and the food was delicious. Our first few days there we stayed with an old friend of mine and got to have home cooked Japanese food – and lots… Read more
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Mochi
One of the reasons I love Allergy Train is that I am always finding new products to try. One I found a little while ago is this Brown Rice Mochi. Its a Japanese product made from sticky brown rice and comes in hard little rectangles, that can be baked or fried and served either sweet… Read more
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Japanese Food fun
Last month I read a post on Hear Mum Roar about Japanese sandwich cutters and immediately went to j-listto buy one for myself (for Oscar of course!). While I was there I found some other great food cutters and shapers – boiled egg shapers, a rice shaper (called a ONIGIRI Shaper) and vegetable cutters. They were all… Read more