January 2010 - Posts

• Japanese Culture and Cuisine: Suppers & Clear Soup Recipe

  In the traditional Japanese culture, a man is considered successful and prestigious if he is able to go out after work to eat and drink, network and socialize, on a regular basis. So a man is rewarded for doing this, consequently, his wife never knows Read More... Posted Wednesday, January 13, 2010 11:27 AM by jer | 0 Comments Filed under: Food

• Japanese Culture and Cuisine: Bento

  A super-fun tradition that has developed in Japan is the Bento box lunch. These are given to schoolchildren as their lunchboxes, or taken by families and adults for picnics. Bento is a variety of small foods packed in special Bento boxes, most of them Read More... Posted Saturday, January 09, 2010 12:46 PM by jer | 1 Comments Filed under: Food

• Japanese Culture and Cuisine: Lunch

  Most of the time the Japanese kids and adults are at school, work and restaurants for lunch. The housewife, for herself, will usually eat her lunch rice with last night's supper leftovers. Often she will combine all of it into one rice bowl, a simple Read More... Posted Friday, January 08, 2010 12:37 PM by jer | 0 Comments Filed under: Food

• Japanese Culture and Cuisine: Breakfast

  If you are as eager as I was to get started, you need to know what a typical, everyday Japanese home-cooked menu is like. One of the things I appreciate about Japanese cuisine is that there are far fewer types of foods, seasonings and ingredients, as Read More... Posted Thursday, January 07, 2010 11:54 AM by jer | 0 Comments Filed under: Food

• Japanese Culture and Cuisine: For Every Meal

  There are three main foods found at virtually every Japanese meal: rice, soup, and pickle. Rice : most Japanese use a rice cooker. This not only cooks the rice perfectly every time, but it can keep rice warm and ready for the whole day. The Japanese have Read More... Posted Wednesday, January 06, 2010 11:27 AM by jer | 0 Comments Filed under: Food

• Japanese Culture and Cuisine: Living the Seasons

  My friend, Jo-Anne, was able to lend me a great old Time-Life book from 1976 about Japanese Cuisine (part of their Foods of the World series). It was a great read, and I'll share some fascinating cultural tidbits with you along the way. Because of Read More... Posted Tuesday, January 05, 2010 10:01 AM by jer | 0 Comments Filed under: Food

• Happy New Year Update

  Here's the latest: after enjoying many recipes from Mastering the Art of French Cooking , which included consuming French bagettes and white wine with my meals, my weight started going up, reaching the highest it's ever been! What an awful statement Read More... Posted Monday, January 04, 2010 9:43 AM by jer | 0 Comments Filed under: Food