Cooking time: 5 minutes.The Japanese have perfected the art of lazy cooking. Instant ramen, instant white rice, instant consomme, instant miso soup complete with tofu and green onions. Where do you think I get it from?So the other...
Try this easy Japanified toast recipe made with just five ingredients, including chikuwa (fish cake tubes), miso-mayo, and ao nori.
Step-by-step directions to make Kasuzuke Salmon, a Japanese dish of salmon tails marinated in sake kasu, miso, mirin, and shio koji.
During my last visit to Tokyo, my grandma sent me home with some store bought, vacuum-sealed beef soboro. It had been a really long time since I had Soboro Donburi, so I was happy to indulge in some nostalgia when I...
This recipe is a Japanese take on hot wings. The wings are baked, not fried, and covered in a sweet, spicy sauce made with miso and hot chili paste.
A step-by-step recipe for making quick-marinade Korean BBQ at home. Marinate in minutes and cook in a grill pan or indoor grill for super flavorful bulgogi.
A step-by-step guide to making an easy, no-fail simplified Japanese curry with homemade depth of flavor, but only a few ingredients. Requires a slow cooker!
A step-by-step recipe on making fluffy steamed rice cooked with Snow crab, enoki and shiitake mushrooms, and kombu. Delicious and full of umami flavors!
Jeon are savory Korean pancakes that are more like eggy omelets. Here's a step by step recipe to make real crab jeon using canned snow crab.
A step-by-step recipe for making Karashi mentaiko at home.
(Disclaimer: I did NOT see any of the shadows when I was taking these photos. Sorry about this. My pics are usually bad, but these are extra bad...) I love coming up with weird fusions. You will be surprised at how cultural...
A simple recipe for tuna toast, using Japanese milk toast, canned tuna, mayonnaise, and cheese.
A step-by-step recipe on how to make Japanese curry WITHOUT using pre-made, boxed roux.
Frozen housemade Chinese dumplings have been my #1 go-to lazyass meal for years now. Here's how I prepare and eat them when I'm feeling lazy and hungry.
My #1 tip for how to learn more about wine: spin the bottle around and look at the back label. See the name of the importer? If you liked the wine, you'll probably like the importer. 
My first encounter with phyllo roll — Wow. Cinnamon-spiced chicken with raisins, chickpeas and almonds were listed to describe Chicken Cilicia, my favorite on La Méditeranée's four-roll platter. My taste buds wondered what I'd been doing...
Make an easy and satisfyingly delicious rice bowl featuring fresh salmon sashimi and avocado.
All day to do as I pleased, all night to gorge on cheese: this was my MLK weekend mantra. It was the start of the Winter Fancy Food Show at the Moscone Center, so Chris was away meeting luminaries of the gourmet world while...
If there's one thing 6 days in paradise (Kauai) reminded me about life, it's that cooking rice on the stove top (and not in a rice cooker) is so easy! I used to do it all the time when I worked as a server at...
