My take on the Tsukimi (moon viewing festival) melts at Pizza Hut in Japan.

Instead of the mentaiko (cod roe) dip, I made a spicy mayo (mayo and Sriracha) dip. The inside has cheddar cheese, guacamole and a runny egg. Wrapped in a home made sourdough flour tortilla. Washed down with a mug of Sapporo Premium.


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Pizzaman are pizza filling stuffed Chinese style buns found in Japanese conbini (convenience stores). The dough was made based on this recipe from Youtube though I had to increase the amount of water I used to 120 ml rather than 100 ml. The filling was spicy Italian sausage filling removed from the casing and cooked off, cooled and then combined ( Read more... )

Sometimes convenience foods are ... convenient. This handy little package of dried noodles in my pantry has been the start of many fast meals. You may use the brand you prefer.

Package and contents - For a healthier meal, only use half the seasoning packet and a splash of soy sauce to adjust the salt level.


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It's been six seven months and I got bored so I thought I'd post a couple of pictures of things I made lately. I've made both dishes before and posted them on my LJ and my blog.

Japanese chicken curry using a boxed curry roux.


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This is a Japanese pasta dish called spaghetti Napolitan. Ketchup is used to flavour the pasta instead of a marinara/tomato sauce. Lighting was poor so the shot I took of the pasta dressed with some green onion for colour was out of focus so you'll have to use your imagination.


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I'm cooking a lot of old favourites and a few new recipes but just haven't had the enthusiasm to post much over the last five or six months.

Today I made a baked Japanese rice casserole called doria so I decided to share the results.


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Sometimes you just don't have the energy to make a comprehensive recipe post but you still want to share something you think is worth while. I made both of these dishes over the last few days.

The first dish, a smoked ham and cannelini bean soup that I've made in the past, is an easy, fast and filling dish, especially if you use canned cannellini ( Read more... )

Some years ago, I made the Hungarian fried burgers/patties/balls called "fasirt". These panko breaded and fried Japanese hamburgers, or "menchi katsu", reminded me of them. They're flavourful and the coating seals in the moisture making for a juicy patty.


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I haven't been a university student in a LONG time but I have been known to buy the occasional package (or six) of those instant ramen noodles for single serving soup or just to use the noodles inside for some other dish. Like these ramen burger buns or as a side (dragon noodles) for chicken patties.


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In my last post about the rice burger options, I mentioned chicken karage, or "Japanese fried chicken". Karaage is characterized by its very light coating of potato starch, or cornstarch or even all purpose flour, before deep frying. It differs in that way from the heavier breading in that other, classic, fried Japanese dish, the cutlet or katsu. ( Read more... )