• mjes on August 28, 2021

  Miso-marinated salmon (pg 144) - an excellent salmon recipe that works well in a bento box.

• mjes on August 28, 2021

  Wakame, cucumber & prawns (Sunomono) (pg 64) - ginger matchsticks add texture and flavor to the basic salad mix dressed with a typical Japanese dressing. This is a great recipe that is very flexible - prawns, crab, lobster, shrimp, octopus ... I'm not sure I have a favorite.

Notes about Recipes in this book

• Green beans with sesame dressing

  • stepharama1 on May 17, 2023

    Very, very good and easily doable for a week day. I thought the sesame dressing was a little sweet so might want to start with less sugar.

• Wrap Your Lips Around This

  ...a must-have cookbook. It’s made me think twice about going out to eat Japanese food, when I now know how incredibly easy it is to make beautifully at home.

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• Kavey Eats

  What I particularly like about the book is how many diverse dishes you can make with a relatively small larder of Japanese ingredients such as miso paste, soy sauce, rice vinegar, mirin, sake...

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