Food, Food, and More Food Thread

yep, ikno,.....~

it'z bsalez,....~haha

bmwracer wrote:not to nitpick, but sushi and sashimi are essentially the same, less the rice. ;)

I don't know of any dessert recipes, but there's a number of good manju/mochi places around SoCal... :D

Definitely not the same! They are prepared completely differently (or at least the real sushi-yas, anyway). I prefer sashimi in the States (cause it's harder to screw up) and sushi in Japan. As for the food that is most practical to eat, I choose ramen and zaru soba. I once went to this local community event where we learned how to prepare soba, from the kneading to the cutting. The soba we made was damn good, as we all got to eat a little bit afterwards. As for ramen, my friends and I would frequently go on ramen tours when we travelled, trying the local specialties. You haven't had ramen until you've had ninniku-ramen (garlic) in Tenri.

gormen :sweat: i didn't know there was another thread here already
i was more interested in ppl sharing reciptes that's all...

This is my fav link to more recipt...http://www.geocities.com/tamahappy/index.html

eat a ducky mouse :D

I vote for tempura.

DAMN i'm glad i'm checkin this stuff on friday then eh??
I dunno about The Last Samurai... i feel like Tom Cruise is a disgrace to my strong japanese heritage :hehe: :hehe:
psssst i'm extremely white :nut:

barooboodoo wrote:DAMN i'm glad i'm checkin this stuff on friday then eh??
I dunno about The Last Samurai... i feel like Tom Cruise is a disgrace to my strong japanese heritage :hehe: :hehe:
psssst i'm extremely white :nut:

The title is misleading, dude: Tom is NOT the last samurai... I'm pretty sure that the movie is about Japan's modernization and those changes result in the obsolescence of the samurai class...

Tom is NOT the last samurai...

jeeeez thanks for ruining the movie for me!!! lol jk jk
hey you should put a review up then if you like it, i would go see it if you said it was good....

barooboodoo wrote:

Tom is NOT the last samurai...

jeeeez thanks for ruining the movie for me!!! lol jk jk
hey you should put a review up then if you like it, i would go see it if you said it was good....

Okay, you got it: http://bmwracer.blog-city.com/read/383039.htm

were can u hget miso is it a paste or what oi thought is was a type of beanand how does it taste like?

Spinach with Sesame Dressing

10 ounces spinach
5 tablespoons sesame paste
5 teaspoons light soya sauce
2 teaspoons sugar
4 teaspoons Dashi Stock
1 tablespoon very fine shredded Nori

1. Boil the water and cook the spinach
2. Put the spinach in cold water to keep the colour. Drain out excess water.
3. Then roll the spinach in a bamboo mat tightly and shape it into a roll, more excess water drain out.
4. Cut it to several portions, mix the sesame paste with the soya sauce, sugar and Dashi stock, put it on top of the spinach and sprinkle the shredded Nori for garnish.

itadakimasu

For those rare few kids that dont know what Mochi is...... :shakehead:
{You should be ashamed.}

Mochi is a desert made with rice flour, or mochiko...........Oishii!!!!! :D

Also please note that there are a numerous form varietys of Mochi and this is one of the easier versions that I know how to cook.

Ingredients:

1 lb. box of Mochiko (about 3 1/2 cups)
2 1/2 cups of sugar
1 tbsp of baking powder
2 cups of water
1 can of coconut milk (12oz.)
1 tbp of vanilla
4 drops of red food coloring

Directions:
Mix everything up. {Its better to pour in the liquids little by little while slowly stirring the mixture} You can do this without a mixer its just a little more work. ;)

After the mixture has reached a smooth consistency, pour it into an oiled 9"x13" pan. {Make sure to use something like Pam which has no real noticeable taste or smell to grease the pan. } Cover with foil and place in a preheated 350 degree oven.

Bake for one hour, remove, and cool. Keep the foil on; it will help you resist poking in your fingers. :nut:
Here comes the hard part.....let it sit for a few hours..really...because it needs to solidify in order to cut it into cubes.

After cutting, sprinkle with a little corn starch or potato starch to detour it from sticking together.
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let me know what you think...... and maybe Ill post more. ;)

1 lb. box of Mochiko

where can we buy a box of mochiko?[/quote]

*drools all over the keyboard :nut:
ahhhh motsureru that sounds so damn good!!

Keep the foil on; it will help you resist poking in your fingers

lol replace fingers with face though :hehe:
Actually they sell mochi at the local market for me so take that!
i don't like the smell of seafood very much but salmon is alright... don't ask me why but also i just love that damn seaweed!!

where can we buy a box of mochiko?

Any Asian food market will have mochiko. And most regular markets most likely will carry it depending upon the Asian population of your area.

barooboodoo..*impression of my mom* "dame desu yo!!!"...LOL.
Just make sure before you stick your face in it that its had time to cool or OUCH!!!!!! ;)

i like black tea mochi~
will get a box whenever i go to this complex near my house
:drooling:

sangmin wrote:were can u hget miso is it a paste or what oi thought is was a type of beanand how does it taste like?

being from Cali, I'm sure they have some sort of asian mart close to your place. So if you go into the refrigerated section of that asian mart, look for some pkge's of mini-tubs of miso. They might even be next to the tubs of tofu. As far as how it taste, if you eat it straight out of the pkge, its mighty salty (b/c it's stock) but if you mix it w/ boiling water, you get miso soup, ‚¨‚¢‚µ‚ȁ[I

Voted for sushi. I LOVE everything else too. Wish I could've chosen everything, and then some. I think Hiroki may have mentioned these dishes which are also my fav. : Okonomiyaki and Takoyaki.
Ramen is freakin' great too! Soba, Somen, Karaage, Edamame (appetizer, but still good), Nantoka (whatever type of) Teriyaki, Donburi.

Some of my favorite appetizers would include Tako Wasabi, Edamame, Sashimi (excellent with a beer-preferably Kirin Ichiban/Lager), Sushi, Miso Shiru........... getting hungry :drooling: ..... *walking like Frankenstein*

anyone know if there's special dishes japanese ppl cook for christmas?

smallangel1 wrote:anyone know if there's special dishes japanese ppl cook for christmas?

Nope, not really anything for Christmas. I think maybe only a cake. Christmas in Japan isn't the time for family. It's the time to get laid. Christmas invitations for couples I'd say rival the Valentine's Day events, I'd say because the girl gives chocolates on V-Day, but the guy will attend to the gift giving on Christmas.

Foods for New Year's is different, however. They have long-life mochi (though somewhat ironically, lots of people die trying to eat the super-sticky mochi), buckwheat noodles for longevity (like the Chinese), and osechi-ryori. There's also a lot of other types of food that are eaten that aren't specifically for New Year's.

Here's a recipe for osechi:

http://japanesefood.about.com/library/weekly/aa120800a.htm

what's that festival where guys give girls chocolate instead?