Japanese Rice. This recipe provides instructions for both cooking in a rice cooker or in an instant pot or pressure cooker. Although I like the fat short-grain rice used in sushi or other Japanese dishes, Jasmine...
Japanese Rice Balls. My dear Japanese friends Leo and Naomi, whom I met when we all lived in the German Village district of Columbus, Ohio in the sixties introduced me to the joy of Japanese Rice Balls. I remember...
Indian Pilaf. Be sure and blanch the almonds. If you don’t, the skins will come off in the rice as it cooks and look very messy as well as taste bitter. Blanched almonds are more expensive, if you can find them, but I...
Nanakusagayu. This dish is served on the Festival of Seven Herbs, held on January 7 in Japan (Nanakusa no sekku). This custom originated in China as a ritual to introduce the earliest wild greens and pray for...