Hooray for Salad Time!

Spring is a glorious time, as it means you can finally look forward to vaguely healthy looking plants in the produce section of your local grocery store. No more shall your tomatoes double as weaponry! Ok, if you feel like spending upwards of $2.50-$3/lb, you can buy healthy looking tomatoes all winter long, but the [...]

Cute Onigiri

Onigiri, a.k.a. balls of seasoned rice with stuff inside, are really great to make when you desperately crave sushi and you a.) want to be cheap and make your own food and b.) are too lazy to make full blow sushi. Not that onigiri are that lazy, really, as there’s still preparation to them, but [...]

Homemade Gyoza

I was surprised to recently discover that Drew had never had gyoza before. Realizing that this was a situation that desperately needed to be remedied, the next time we ate at a Japanese restaurant, we got some gyoza as appetizers. As I’d hoped and/or expected, Drew deemed them delicious. Buying them premade and frozen is [...]

Festive Holiday Sushi using Crab and Other Delicious Items

So I feel like any social gathering where you’re supposed to bring some food is now an excuse for me to make sushi. I really want to practice making intricate and interesting sushi varieties, but it can be hard to convince myself to do that when the only ones who will be eating said sushi [...]

Yaki Udon Stir Fry

I’ve recently gotten sucked into a manga series called Oishinbo, which is all about Japanese cooking and food. As a result, I have been craving all sorts of Japanese food lately, including things I’d never even heard of until I read about it. In any case, this inspired me to check out the Pacific Mercantile [...]

Kokoro plus a bonus Twilight chocolate critique!

I continue to curse myself for my unfortunate trend of eating somewhere and neglecting to bring my camera with me. Most notable in this is my visit a few days ago to Kokoro. This is a local Denver chain of Japanese fast food. This makes me happy, as I remember several years ago sitting around [...]

Sushi Made With Canned Tuna Fish

So I’ve got two conflicting factors in my life right now: 1.) I love sushi, and 2.) I am underemployed. The latter means that, in order to make really awesome sushi with the sort of fishes I really like, I’d need to spend more money then I feel comfortable spending on a regular basis. Thus, [...]

Where to find delicious Japanese food in Central Florida

A little while back Drew and I had the luck of being in Central Florida. Well, Central Florida if we’re talking latitude, here. Eastern Florida by longitudinal standards. As an aside, the only way I can remember the difference between latitude and longitude is by thinking of the slogan for some beer or another, “Change [...]

Sunomono (of Joy)

I may have mentioned this before, but I will never again have the problem of too many cucumbers. It’s not a commonly occurring problem for most people, and in the past, I have mostly only been afflicted with it when I’ve been acquainted with entirely too many people who have had gardens with cucumbers in [...]

Sunomono, or Rather, What to Do With All These Cucumbers

I had briefly considered growing cucumbers this summer. It’s the first year ever since I’d moved out of my parents place some 10ish years ago that I’ve had a yard. Or rather, if you’re willing to define ‘yard’ as ‘lying 4 refrigerators on their sides, tracing the area, then covering that area with dirt plus [...]

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